the adam foundation was set up not long after our adam was taken, and it was set up by lovely people, who wanted to carry on with his name and do something for the community. i think the community that heard about adam that they were like. he s such a young gentleman and this has happened to him. it s nice to give back to the community and do something a bit more positive. in a way, it keeps his name alive. this is the age where kids do know right from wrong. their choice in which way they go. it s not big and it s not hard. no, no, it s not big. or if they re carrying it because they re frightened of their life, be prepared that they might take somebody else s life and they ve got to live with that, too. i m a bit nervous, if i m honest with you. i want to come and do it with you because i know you go and do them a lot and you re really brave for doing it. i m proud of you, i really am,
is adam s sister. - he was loved by everybody. he didn t deserve to die, that night. it s cold blooded murder. you just don t take knives out with you. if you come across that situation, just get away from it and tell somebody. and last thing on your mind when you go to bed is adam. i ve got three children and one of my children is the same age as you all. and he still hurts, now. a couple of weeks ago, he said to me, mum, do you remember uncle adam bought me a ball for my birthday? that was one of the last times he d seen adam, and he said. i m going to come and play with you this soon. and he said, and he never got to play with me. so it hurts. sojust think. never, never carry that knife because it s not worth it. if it s just that one child who might feel the peer pressure to carry a knife, and we ve given that talk and they have a little think about, actually, i don t want to be in that gang
i m detective chief inspector cath cummings of merseyside police, and i m a senior investigating officer at the major crime unit. what happened to adam, there is absolutely no sense to it. he was certainly not in the wrong place at the wrong time. he went out on a friday night for drinks after work, like you or i may do on a friday evening. what we do know from extensive cctv inquiries, witness statements, witness accounts, investigative techniques is that, earlier on that evening, there is a group of five off road motorcycles in prescot town centre behaving aggressively. they drive out dangerously, turning right onto the high street. later on that night, they went back towards highton, entered king george v playing fields and across back
they may have played in adam s murder. this isn t going away for anybody. there s updates in technology. this is by no means a cold case murder investigation, absolutely not.
hello, ian. morning, joyce, 0k? am i allowed to come in? yes. you are thank you very much. all right are you all right? i am i allowed to sit? yeah. all right. so, any updates for us? nothing concrete, j nicola, i m afraid. what i can say is any- intelligence or any information that we get is looked - at and shred back to the, you know, to the bare bones . to see where it s coming from. and we look to the nth degree. with the length of time now that s gone since adam s. murder, information that we get isn t looked at differently - than it was looked. at in the first week. it d be wrong of me to say it s getting as much time spent . on it as it was four years ago, but when a new murder - comes in that the team have to investigate, . the murders that we ve been investigating previously-