was a terrible crime that shocked the community, that went unsolved for three decades. nikki allan was a seven year old girl who was out on an evening, was cleared by david boyd to a disused building, as we heard there, in sunderland by the dockside, where he attacked her. was lured by david boyd. thejudge said she believed he either committed a sexual assault are intended to commit a sexual assault on nikki allan, who fought back and scream, and he managed to get her into the building where he carried out what she described as a frenzied attack on the seven year old girl using a brick and a knife, where he stabbed her multiple times and then dragged her body to the basement of the building to try and hide it, to try and cover his tracks. her body was found the next day by two local residents, such was the outpouring that people scattered around the area to try and find her and her body was found the next day. david boyd was initially interviewed as a witness to the case,
interview evidence should not be admissible in court and the judge at the 1993 trial said he should be acquitted of the charges. however, the police said they weren t looking for anybody else in connection with the offence, and there have been questions asked by the family over the way that northumbria police have handled this case. it was 25 years after the killing when the case was reinvestigated, and advances in dna evidence where watt was able to tie david boyd to the crime scene. some of his dna, such was the advance in technique, they were able to use smaller and final samples of dna, some of it was found on nikki allan s clothing and that is what ultimately led to his arrest in 2018 and his conviction, that was what linked him to the crime. it was nikki allan s mother really campaigning over that time, for years and years, decades, really, get the crime reopen, to get it looked at again, that has led to this conviction today. find looked at again, that has led to this convictio
that he did and ultimately lead to her murder. you could see from the dutch s summing up that she took those facts into account, considering them aggravating factors, in this appalling murder. thejudge s summing up. factors, in this appalling murder. the judge s summing up. given the brutali of the judge s summing up. given the brutality of this the judge s summing up. given the brutality of this murder the judge s summing up. given the brutality of this murder and the judge s summing up. given the brutality of this murder and the - brutality of this murder and the fact he was linked to her, his girlfriend, as you say, baby sat for her, in a way to seem remarkable it s taken 30 years to get to this point. it s taken 30 years to get to this oint. , . , ., point. yes, it was. i think there were a point. yes, it was. .. i think there were a number point. yes, it was. .. i think there were a number of point. yes, it was. i think there were a number of things - point. y
this screen left is video just released from the sheriff s office in new mexico baldwin rehearsing what would become the deadly sin. it is likely that the deceased video operator was operating the camera at that time. jonathan hunt ties it all together in l.a. together. it is a vast amount of video and interview evidence. much of which we have not previously seen and heard, including as you just mentioned, video of alec baldwin rehearsing the gun draw exactly as he was doing on october 21st when the gun he was holding fired a live round and killed that cinematographer and wounded the director. the new evidence also shows baldwin s first interviews with police after the shooting. we ve done this for two weeks and we did it the right way every day. the barrel cleared and i would