His career as a policeman may be over, but he can walk holding his head high, knowing he is respected by the community he served.

Give that policeman a medal. He literally sacrificed himself to find those girls. I really wish him the best for a happy future!

I Sincerely APPLAUD YOU STEVE!! We NEED MORE police that have your guts to " DO THE RIGHT THING!!! ". YOU Sir, have my utmost RESPECT and I hope you get my post!! THANK YOU!!!!!!

A guy confesses to a murder 10 years earlier, having pinpointed a murder site under investigation. He takes the officer to the exact spot, remains are found yet it gets thrown out on trivial grounds. That is beyond ridiculous.

People are more valuable than procedure. Steve's a hero.

I'm sick and tired of criminals having more rights than their victims. The way they treated this officer is deplorable.

Steve Fulcher is a HERO by any measure. The ridiculous rules that castrated his investigation need to be SEVERELY overhauled. I wish you the very best of luck Steve for all your future endeavors.

"He crossed the line when he shouldn't have done, but I feel that line shouldn't be there." Nicely put. I am so sorry that a brilliant, humane, intuitive senior police officer lost his career because he failed to tick a few management boxes that effectively give the victims fewer rights than the perpetrators. Hopefully, no one will forget that he also got a serial killer off the streets. All the best Steve Fulcher. You are a bloody hero in my eyes.

This policeman should get a medal. He got the job done.

The guy got a serial killer off the streets and recovered two bodies. He should've gotten a Gold medal for that and not get railroaded.

This man is a hero. He prevented further crimes.

This Detective deserves a medal for what he accomplished...

I believe you did the right thing Steve and your policing was spot on. Wishing you well.

These laws should be reviewed. If someone is literally offering up evidence after they have said..."I'm not speaking to you, I KNOW MY RIGHTS" clearly shows he knew he didn't have to say anything but decided to ramble on about a whole other crime. This is not the same as someone who is being bullied by police and doesn't know their rights and I think that distinction should be made!

Steve Fulcher, you are the hero!

Britain's justice is sometimes difficult to understand. And Fulcher not being able to find a job there is just a disgrace. And unfair.

Wow!! A cop that good should never have gone through this.

“There is no cavalry coming” so true

This officer obviously has a heart. Thank you sir.

Stevo-O is an absolute legend! The suspect was not going to share the information later on. So thank God he got it! Maybe he couldn't be charged for the second girl but everyone knows who did it Thanks to Steve. And wouldn't have known otherwise. But what a miscarriage of Justice. The system sucks sometimes.

It's totally unfair that a good police officer has had his life ruined by a serial killer. He did a wonderful job and all I can say is, I hope he finds solace in his new environment in Somalia. The rules really need to be overhauled for PACE.

So unfair that this detectives career was ruined over this case. If not for him,2 families would still be wondering about their daughter. And dude had to go to Somalia to find a job? That's just plain wrong

Steve is a hero IMHO.

This detective is a shining example of a good officer. The second victim would have not been found without his quick thinking and improv. This is the guy they fire and the lot that enabled grooming gangs get to keep their jobs. Make it make sense.

The female judge who ruled the confessions inadmissible is a reflection of the complete loss of perspective on protecting the public; the priority was on following the procedures rather than ensuring evil is out of play.

Someone needs to make a movie about this!

Well done to this officer without whom these young women would not have been found for years to come. Simply put, that law needs to change to support cases such as this where a more spontaneous approach is called for. 👏

Amazing how laws vary from country to country. In the USA spontaneous utterances by offenders are 100% accepted in court.

Detective Steve Fulcher I salute ur reasons n decision on questioning the killer there n then ...... U r the hero in my book ...... from Malaysia!

Screw the "legal ramifications" The confessions were not obtained through torture or any other harmful method. This detective did what he had to do to get answers for the families but it is of course much more important to protect the criminals than an experienced detective who got results.

I especially like the actors and reconstructions. Like watching a movie unfold.

If I were EVER TO WIN THE LOTTERY..I WOULD PAY ANYTHING TO HAVE THIS MAN AS HEAD OF A PRIVATE INVESTIGATION COMPANY...

What an outstanding police officer? 💕 From my perspective, this disgusting criminal voluntarily confessed to the ‘first’ murder, with the clear knowledge that he was entitled to have legal representation because he initially kept wanting to ‘go back to the station’, as well as repeating, “No comment”, &, although being held under the ‘kidnapping’ predisposition, he placed the law enforcement officer in an unprecedented moral & ethical dilemma with the subsequent confession from a ‘serial killer’, by his offer to ‘show’ the officer where his ‘first’ deceased victim was. This is clearly of no fault to the officer, despite the legal requirement to read the criminal his Miranda Rights. He did ask the murderer, “Are you sure”, prior to being shown the burial location of his supposed first victim. I say ‘supposed’ because we don’t know how many more victims there may be. This is clearly a wrongful persecution of an outstanding law enforcement officer because if my child was murdered, I would prefer her body back over pathetic justice any day. In comparison to a body retrieval & justice, justice falls short because grief lasts a lifetime, & justice for such an atrocity contains no true equality. Eg: criminal compensation runs out over time, but loss & grief remains. It is deplorable that this law enforcement officer cannot be employed, whilst the psycho serial killer was eventually found guilty and sentenced for the same crime he voluntarily confessed to, & is probably laughing at the psychopathological position he put his ‘captor’ in. Now ‘that’ is injustice. Social Scientist, Western Australia

They should create a fund for Steve that everyone could contribute to. I would donate.

You are a hero Steve. Such a sad case😖

I love Sir Trevor's reporting. Such a class act in journalism.

I never thought I’d hear myself say this….. but omg that poor copper 😢 his life ruined for going with his gut and bringing home 2 girls remains to there family 💔💔💔 fair play to him 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💗💗💗💗

Steve Fulcher, you are a hero!

Detective Fulcher is great at his job. It's a great shame what that monster did to those girls. They lived in a great community, the people really came out to help ,and the lantern vigil was very touching.

God bless this officer.🙏

Good on Steve fulcher he bought two girls home to their families

He led the Police to the sites, how does that not amount to a "confession" ??. Regardless of the Courts determination that the officers actions "undermined" justice for Shan, the family was supported by that officers decision to press the killer for information, the courts ruling that charges be dropped against the killer for the second murder demonstrates just how ludicrous and self defeating laws have become.

So this is how you reward a HEROE in the UK? Unbelievable!!

I am living in Canada- and our police seem to be handcuffed as well by the laws protecting the rights of the accused over the rights of the victims of crime

I know i have just found a new Hero in my life.Mr Fulcher is exactly the man i aspire to be.

HE STOPPED THE MURDERS.....

Steve Fulcher should open his own investigative business.

So this man does his job and does it well and they left him to hang. We need a great officer like you here come to the US!

Could you imagine If he said no stop, and then we would never even know where that second body was and he knew it too. I think you did the right thing underneath it all.

“He crossed a line that shouldn’t have been there in the first place.” Perfectly said. Laws to protect the guilty. He broke rules but did the right thing. It’s really disappointing that a police force would go against one of their own because of protocols that were not properly …… then 3 yrs later the courts excepted the same evidence that they denied years before. Crazy.

Steve Fulcher took a chance when the killer (not alleged) had a moment of conscience and he uncovered another girl. The fact that the killer refused to talk after being taken to the police station only showed that Steve Fulcher had seized that moment of opportunity therefore to say that he should have adhered to the rules is beyond my comprehension and my utter disgust that he is penalised. If you were a victim of crime you would have wanted a Steve Fulcher on your case to investigate because he gets the job done. Thank you Mr Steve Fulcher I am deeply disappointed and angry that you were failed by the authorities.

I like you Steve! We have to stand up for what is right, no matter the cost. We stand for nothing if we don't. Thank you!

My heart goes out to Becky's mum. While I understand wanting to protect procedural integrity, Fulcher should not be a pariah.

A truly brilliant documentary. Thank you for this extraordinary story.

God bless you Sir, you did an outstanding job. I am so very sorry for the way you were treated. I don’t know anything about UK laws as l am from the USA, but l believe your treatment was Despicable!

The officer HAD to breach protocol. If he had not, Halliwell would not have led him to either of the bodies. The fact that the bodies were FOUND according to the information that Halliwell provided to the detective proves the legitimacy of the interrogation, as well as Holliwell's guilt. The primary objective of law enforcement should be to keep serial murderers off the street.

Mr Stever Fetcher ,you didn't lose anything because we only see a hero in this story and that's you SIR,and show us that it is the ones that will do everything to defend a serial killer that confesses two detailed crimes HORRIBLE CRIMES..

We live now in societies where the villains, the criminals, the murderers have much more rights than the victims. What a shame !!!

Having seen this somewhere else, you did a superb job in comparison!! I never got to see/hear the conclusion before. GREAT JOB 👍‼️

Steve fulchers actions are complete common sense. PACE and the justice system needs to be revised. This man is an exemplar detective whose quest for justice is unequivocally. The attack on his career is a disgrace. Police and IPPC, you should be ashamed. This man is a hero. (Retired police officer 28,yrs experience.)

When given the choice between this officer and the officers today (who arrest people for praying in public or posting jokes on social media or basically anything a politician doesn't like) I prefer *this* officer.

****VETERAN SCOTS GUARDS***WELL DONE DETECTIVE STEVE FULCHER....I. SALUTE. YOU..RESPECT..

That PACE law definitely needs to be reworked , it's tilted way too far in the suspects favor.

It shows how convoluted the constraints on that Police officer are, it seems to be geared more towards protection of the criminal than enabling the Police to secure a confession.

Why couldn't Steve Fulcher ever work in the UK? That seems Barbaric to me.

Steve Fulcher Is A Hero💯

they cannot interrogate a serial killer.. but they are more than happy trawling through our Facebook posts and arrest us for making a comment someone does not like.

I was completely dumbfounded!! I'm so ANGRY 😡 about this ridiculous, British pace law that I can't see straight!! And I'm an American woman! Your evidence is not one body but two!! The killer himself volunteered the information!! That detective was treated so badly that I no longer even want to visit the island of my ancestors!! 😡⚡😡

So let me get this straight, a detective solves a recent abduction, turn murder, uncovers a body from a cold case and gives two families closure (as sad as it is) and as a reward he is railroaded out of the police force and vilified? Wow, I guess that’s the way the world is now! Yet another reason I can’t wait to get off this Godless rock!

The place where Becky was buried would have been impossible to find if he didn't tell the police where it was.

I wish we had more police officers like Steve! Laser focus and rules be damned when someone's life is on the line. Christopher was smart, tried to screw up the investigation by NOT repeating his confession. Unreal. Criminals have more rights than the victims. Unbalanced justice. He was treated unfairly. He was doing his job. Period. But another thing sticks out to me. The killer's children and wife. Their lives as they knew it were also over. They, too, were victims of their father's crimes. And I wonder how many more Christopher killed and buried?

I think those of the who judged Detective Fulcher should be completely ashamed. It was a disgusting determination.

The killer bullied the victim to DEATH. Bullying a CRIMINAL sounds fair to me. It's ridiculous to have cost the successful results of Steve the detective his livelihood. The SYSTEM IS BROKEN!

I just wish more police were as honourable as Steve Fulcher. Doing what is right is often not much consalation, but in this case he has saved other lives, so he achieved so much. Others could be dead if he hadn't done what he did. Shame on the system that caused him to lose his job.

There is something wrong with the law when a serious crime would have been missed if this law had been obeyed by detective Steve Fulcher. Steve Fulcher's decision meant that another murder was admitted to by the murderer, and the victim's family could have closure.

I’m reminded of provisions in military law & maybe they exist in civilian law also, about the right or responsibility to disobey illegal, or immoral, orders.

How could anyone not employ this hero, God bless you Steve

When it comes to someone like this 9 times out of 10 they have done it before. It's so sad.

Surely this is an exceptional circumstance. Sometimes the laws rigidity is unfair and unjust to the person who does what is morally right. As Halliwell was found guilty of Becky's death the Steve Fulcher who was instrumental in finding Sian should've been reinstated to his role at the time it all happened and received public acknowledgement of his unfair treatment. Somalia - he'll be flat out there. But he was unfairly treated and common sense did not prevail. Shame on those who stand in their negative attitude towards his actions. 😔

This was disgusting to watch. Making him the villain was outrageous.

DS Fulcher was a hero. There was no doubt this monster killed these poor girls. It was exceptional circumstances and an evil killer should not be protected. The world has gone mad

The whole trial system is a load of bollocks, how the evidence of the guy admitting murder and burying bodies can’t go to court is mental

I have nothing but respect for this officer.

so the rules he broke superceded the rules of not killing someone that had also been broken? great work justice system

Thank god for people like Steve, well done for bringing those girls home to their families x

Let’s give it up for the guy who played Chris. He should be an actor

B proud of yourself Steve. We all are

I completely agree with what the officer did,it's up to a defendant to ask for an attorney and not the responsibility of the officer,he broke no laws and did the right thing.

"It's only later that Debbie said, You know, she spent the entire journey fearing that he's gonna lean forward with his handcuffed arms and rip her throat out. I've already thought of it in those terms but it's a fair point." I love those Brits. Rarely flustered and always understated. Fair point!

What a hero the police was! Bringing two slain ladies home

This detective is a legend and what the dogged, focused, rogue detectives who wild risk breaking the rules to get justice for a single person. Legend!

High definition surveillance cameras should be mandatory standard, it was sheer luck they manage to catch this guy in the first place.

That "Line" of protocol is what allows a majority of filthy bastards to be freed, acquitted, and returned to society to do more harm. This police officer did a magnificent thing, and risked his own future to do his job as he was sworn to do. What is more valuable to us as human beings; protecting killers that confess and show where the victims are buried, or more officers like this fine man?

Good Job Mr. Steve Fulcher. The justice system should be ashame. 👎🏻 They are more worried about Steve but not the killer of these girls.

I'm truly disappointed for that cop. I hope he's vindicated and that plenty of dough comes along with that vindication. For himself and his family. And i hope that the British Pace laws are revisited and revised.

Steve you did a very very very good job . All the best , i am sure you’ll be right , just have faith .

I’m confused about why the cop was violating standards by ensuring that a crime had actually been committed by going to the site where there was allegedly a buried body. No one knew about this crime until then and they had no evidence yet.

The man deserves a medal and a raise.... none of this nonsense

A police officer's first duty is to protect the victims from the criminals. Not the other way around. To throw so many rules full of minutia at them often makes it impossible for justice to be done.

Common Sense says you take what the killer offers in the moment so the dead or the living can be recovered. No killers should ever walk because of litigiousness.