Five young men who died in crash which also killed two officers are named — Transcript

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1. 0:00Let's bring in our correspondent Katie
2. 0:02Barfield who's in Middlesborough for us.
3. 0:04And Katie, we now know the identities of
4. 0:06the five in the car, the Volkswagen Pat.
5. 0:12We do indeed. that update just within
6. 0:14the last half hour from Cleveland police
7. 0:16confirming the names and the ages of all
8. 0:18of the five people who were in the
9. 0:20Volkswagen Patat um at the time who lost
10. 0:23their lives in this deadly crash as
11. 0:24their pass uh careered head on into a
12. 0:27police car that was being driven uh by
13. 0:29PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Kloff uh
14. 0:32who also died. We now know that all of
15. 0:34the occupants of the Volkswagen Pass
16. 0:36were male. They were all either
17. 0:38teenagers uh or in their early 20s. I'll
18. 0:41just run through the names of them
19. 0:43again. Michael Robert Cahill was 23,
20. 0:45Theo Ray who was 17, Cole Robert Worthy
21. 0:48who was 16 years old, Jacob Matusiaak
22. 0:51who was 23, and Mai Saddington who was
23. 0:5418. Now, an incredibly sad day for the
24. 0:57community around here. This is a very
25. 0:58tight-knit community in this part of the
26. 1:00Northeast. All day we've watched people
27. 1:02coming to lay flowers and tributes uh
28. 1:05both for the police officers who lost
29. 1:07their lives and also for the people who
30. 1:09died h in the Volkswagen pass out. Some
31. 1:11of the balloons uh behind me here have
32. 1:13been left for Michael who of course uh
33. 1:15is one of the people Michael Cahill who
34. 1:17lost his life in the pass out. Several
35. 1:19notes have been written uh in memory of
36. 1:21the people who lost their lives. We've
37. 1:23also seen a couple of police officers in
38. 1:25uniform coming to lay flowers and pay
39. 1:27tribute to their colleagues. Now, the
40. 1:29investigation here is still ongoing as
41. 1:31well. There is still a large section of
42. 1:33the A66 that's closed behind me at the
43. 1:35moment while police continue their
44. 1:37investigations. We've been watching over
45. 1:39the past 24 hours. Police forensics
46. 1:41teams coming in combing through uh the
47. 1:44debris from that crash. We saw a car
48. 1:45being moved on uh by recovery team
49. 1:48yesterday uh evening. So, they will be
50. 1:50continuing their work uh to piece
51. 1:52together their investigation. There also
52. 1:54is an investigation simultaneously
53. 1:56ongoing uh by the independent office for
54. 1:58police conduct. That's standard in any
55. 2:01case where there are deaths where the
56. 2:02police are involved. They will be
57. 2:04wanting to look not just at the crash
58. 2:06itself, but in the moments leading up to
59. 2:07that and the decisions that were made.
60. 2:10We understand that PC Blades and PC
61. 2:11Kluff were not invol involved directly
62. 2:14in the pursuit of the Volkswagen pass as
63. 2:16it hit them while it was driving the
64. 2:18wrong way down the A66, but that other
65. 2:20teams of officers had been pursuing that
66. 2:23car. So, the IOPC will be wanting to
67. 2:25look at the decisions that were made,
68. 2:27often split-second decisions, of course,
69. 2:29in a high-speed pursuit like this. uh
70. 2:31they'll be wanting to look at the
71. 2:32communication uh between officers and
72. 2:35possibly whether there was any
73. 2:36communication uh with PC Blades and PC
74. 2:39cloth as well. So the investigations uh
75. 2:41are continuing here. What we don't know
76. 2:43at the moment is the circumstances of
77. 2:45the crash. Although we have been told
78. 2:47the names uh and the ages of the
79. 2:48occupants. haven't been given any
80. 2:50details about the circumstances that led
81. 2:53uh to this impact other than Cleveland
82. 2:55police saying uh that family liaison
83. 2:57officers are continuing to support the
84. 2:58families of everybody who lost their
85. 3:00lives.
86. 3:01>> Katie, we had that emotional uh
87. 3:03statement from the chief constipal of
88. 3:04Cleveland police, Victoria Fuller,
89. 3:06yesterday. Just give us the depth, the
90. 3:08sense of emotion as well even today
91. 3:10within the local community.
92. 3:15>> Yeah, you could just hear it, couldn't
93. 3:16you? in the chief constable Victoria
94. 3:18Fuller's voice as she named the two
95. 3:20police officers who had lost their lives
96. 3:21yesterday visibly and audibly uh
97. 3:24emotional as she named them. Uh she
98. 3:26spoke about having visited their
99. 3:28families personally uh to break the news
100. 3:30to them which we can imagine must have
101. 3:32been very difficult particularly as
102. 3:34Cleveland police is quite a small force
103. 3:36and quite a tight-knit community around
104. 3:38here. I spoke also to the local police
105. 3:40and crime commissioner Matt's story
106. 3:41earlier and he was talking about that
107. 3:43about how it is a small area. is a
108. 3:45close-knit area. It's likely that many
109. 3:47of the officers and also many of the
110. 3:49other emergency services uh who worked
111. 3:51here may have known each other. So, this
112. 3:54will be a loss really felt hard uh in
113. 3:56the cle Cleveland police community, but
114. 3:58also in the wider community here. Plenty
115. 4:00of people who've come down uh to lay
116. 4:02flowers said this is the kind of
117. 4:03community where everybody knows each
118. 4:05other, everybody talks to each other. Uh
119. 4:07so it will be very deeply felt.