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Colin was also picked out of an identity parade by a woman who claimed to have seen a man acting suspiciously on the common on the day of Rachel's murder.

So the police looked through any previous disturbances on the Common in the past few years and they found a complaint of a woman who said that a man had exposed himself to her.

And that man was Colin Stagg.

He claimed that he'd been sunbathing naked, which a lot of people did in the area of the common in the 90s, apparently.

So this man was Colin Stagg, and like he said, apparently he was just sunbathing naked.

But the police were having none of it, and Colin Stagg was charged with indecent exposure.

His solicitor advised him to plead guilty, and he got a 200 quid fine.

This is the problem, isn't it?

Is that the sex offenders register.

There's many ways you can end up on there.

Let's just say that.

Public urination.

Public urination.

Public nudity.

And obviously sliding a little bit along the scale of like if you're 18 and have sex with your like 16 year old girlfriend, something like that.

Like there's a lot of different ways that people can end up on this list.

And then if you are on that list, if something does happen, you become...

Now, before we go into all of the very, very problematic things that happened with this case, the only one sentence I'm going to utter in favour of the police, and not even in favour, but in mildest defence...

Mealy mouth defence is that when you are facing a case like this of a young murdered woman where the child is there, like this was such, we must have been so young, but I remember this case being like full front headline.

Yes, exactly, exactly.