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And I think that when they had nothing to go on, and then you get multiple people calling in and telling you that it's Colin Stagg, and although they should have exercised the idea that there are many different shades of wrongen on the sex offenders register, when you have nothing else, following this line of inquiry into Colin Stagg, yes, but how they do it...

It's one of the most blinkered cases that we've come across.

Julie Pines explained to the police that she was concerned because one of these letters from Colin Stagg had contained a sexual fantasy.

D.I.

Keith Pedder, with his job on the line, remember?

came up with a plan.

A honey trap.

A sticky, sticky honey trap.

Sticky, sticky, very illegal.

Yes.

Sir Pedder enlisted the help of an undercover copper who had worked on the gang scene for a long time.

So she was very well practised in getting information out of people trying to hide it.

Now, we've never found out this officer's real name.

She's only ever been known as Lizzie James.

And this honey trap would be called Operation Edsel.

Which is apparently a village in Scotland.

Well, we did find out from our conversation with former detective Colin Sutton a long time ago that they just apparently pick names for these operations alphabetically.

So if it comes back to E, what's an E word?

Let's go.

So under this fake name, Lizzie James wrote to Colin Stagg, saying that she hoped that he didn't mind her intrusion, but that she'd been given his address by a good friend, Julie Pines, and that she wanted to get to know him, as she was much more open-minded than Julie was.