Emily Longley, only 17, was found dead at the home of her boyfriend Elliot Turner on May 7th, 2011. Elliot Turner, only 20 himself, strangled his girlfriend and persuaded his doting parents to help him cover up his heinous crime. Elliot was violent, controlling, and manipulative towards his girlfriend, Emily Longley.
This true-crime documentary examines events surrounding the murder, the investigation, and the trial. It features interviews with family, friends, police, and prosecutors, as well as covert recordings, surveillance footage, and personal archive material. Elliot Turner is an evil killer who shouldn't be allowed to be part of society and should stay in prison for a long, long time.
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This true-crime documentary examines events surrounding the murder, the investigation, and the trial. It features interviews with family, friends, police, and prosecutors, as well as covert recordings, surveillance footage, and personal archive material. Elliot Turner is an evil killer who shouldn't be allowed to be part of society and should stay in prison for a long, long time.
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00:00:00On February the 22nd, 1994, Emily came into the world.
00:00:07They gave her to me to hold and I held her in my arm and her head was in my palm
00:00:13and her feet were in that kind of crook of my elbow.
00:00:17Emily opened her eyes slowly and we just sat there staring at each other.
00:00:22I just felt this love that I'd never felt for anything before.
00:00:31Emily Longley was found dead in bed.
00:00:37The house where Emily Longley's body was found is listed to the name Turner.
00:00:43Dorset police say they're looking at several lines of inquiry.
00:00:48A 19-year-old man had been arrested and released on bail.
00:00:52Very early on, we started to get a picture.
00:00:59This is quite a volatile relationship.
00:01:02He wants to know where she was all the time, what she wore, who she was going out with and where she was going to be.
00:01:18He just wanted to control her.
00:01:20Do you have anything in your son?
00:01:26Turner's mum and dad were going to do everything they could to support their son.
00:01:31I started to appreciate that Mrs Turner was not being truthful.
00:01:36We had no information. There were no obvious internal or external injuries to Emily Longley.
00:01:43There didn't seem to be an obvious reason why she died.
00:01:46What we needed was a cause of death.
00:01:49We had to prove or disprove my theory that Emily had died at the hands of her boyfriend.
00:02:05That was a startling moment within the investigation.
00:02:08He was exposed for what he is.
00:02:11Murder was the last thing on my mind.
00:02:14I didn't for one second think she'd be murdered.
00:02:20Just tell me what's happened there.
00:02:44My son's friend saying goodbye.
00:02:49This morning I tried to wake both of them up but the girl didn't wake up.
00:02:54We tried to wake her up, I don't know what it is.
00:02:56Right, now is she breathing?
00:02:58No, I don't think she is.
00:03:00I need you to pull back the duvet for me and just look to see if you can see any signs of breathing.
00:03:06I tried to hold the pulse.
00:03:08No, I need you to put your face next to her mouth.
00:03:11Can you feel any breath?
00:03:13Can you see her chest going up and down?
00:03:16No.
00:03:17Anything around her neck?
00:03:19Anything around her neck?
00:03:21Oh, that necklace.
00:03:23Necklace.
00:03:25No, she's got a necklace very tight.
00:03:27Very tight around her neck?
00:03:29Yes.
00:03:30How tight?
00:03:31Very, very tight.
00:03:32The ambulance is here.
00:03:34Right, I need you to undo that necklace and somebody needs to open the door.
00:03:37Your son, can you distract your son?
00:03:39I need you to open the front door and get that necklace from around her neck off.
00:03:43Okay.
00:03:44Now, do it now.
00:03:47Okay.
00:03:56On the morning of Monday the 7th of May,
00:04:00we were informed that a 17-year-old had been found dead in her boyfriend's bed at an address in Bournemouth.
00:04:10Her boyfriend, Elliot Turner, aged 19 years, was also present
00:04:16and Elliot's mother had contacted the emergency services.
00:04:21I arrived at the Turners' house at 12 noon on Monday the 7th.
00:04:26By the time I had arrived at the house, the occupants had been taken out.
00:04:31The paramedics had left and I entered this four-bedroom bungalow.
00:04:39The crime scene itself was a small bedroom.
00:04:42The scene in the bedroom was certainly not like a typical murder scene.
00:04:48The place was immaculate and there was no sign of disturbance in the room.
00:04:53In the middle of the bedroom was a double bed
00:04:57and on the double bed lay Emily Longley, dressed in denim shorts and a denim top.
00:05:05There was no trauma to her body.
00:05:07I did notice there was a slight mark on Emily's neck,
00:05:13consistent with a necklace being tight.
00:05:16But apart from that, she was presented immaculately.
00:05:20There was no sign of a fight or violence.
00:05:23Elliot had a couple of nicks on his arm and a slight bruise on his side.
00:05:30There was no obvious pieces of evidence.
00:05:34At the scene, Elliot told a uniform officer
00:05:37that he and Emily had been out the night before,
00:05:40that they'd been intoxicated, that they'd had an argument,
00:05:44a physical argument, and at one stage he had made contact with her neck.
00:05:50He says he didn't mean to hurt her.
00:05:52I never meant to harm her, I was just defending myself.
00:05:55He said she was kicking and screaming
00:05:57and he just pushed her on the neck to get her off.
00:06:00Elliot had said that Emily was OK after this
00:06:04and, in fact, he went and got her some water
00:06:07and that they then went to bed together
00:06:10and it wasn't until the morning that he discovered that she was deceased.
00:06:15A post-mortem examination was scheduled for four o'clock that afternoon.
00:06:21In this case, it was looking at Emily's neck
00:06:25and any injuries that was apparent on her body.
00:06:44Mr Turnip was in the best position to tell us how Emily had passed away.
00:06:49He was the one with all the information,
00:06:51he was the one with all the knowledge,
00:06:53I can recall when we placed him in his cell,
00:06:57it was a bit alien to him and frightening, shall we say,
00:07:00because I don't think he thought he was going into a cell,
00:07:03he thought he was just there to help with our inquiry.
00:07:06But once he was in that cell and he realised
00:07:10that only the custody staff or myself could let him out,
00:07:14it became a little bit on top for him, shall we say.
00:07:18Elliot is admitted into custody at 11.29
00:07:21and we have got 24 hours to either charge him or release him.
00:07:40Emily was just a kind of game-on little girl.
00:07:44I just kind of strapped myself in and went along for the ride.
00:07:55At about the age of 18 months,
00:07:57she was diagnosed with a form of osteoporosis.
00:08:02She was always kind of in and out of hospital.
00:08:05She had eczema and asthma and food intolerances
00:08:09and heaps of allergies.
00:08:11That really impacted her.
00:08:14She wanted to grab life by the reins
00:08:17and those things got in the way of her being able to do that.
00:08:22I mean, she did them anyway,
00:08:24but then she would suffer the consequences later on.
00:08:31We moved to New Zealand, it was 2003.
00:08:34I had just turned eight and Emily was nine.
00:08:40It was really because of Emily that we moved over here.
00:08:44One specialist said the best thing you can do for her probably
00:08:47is move out of London
00:08:49and go to a kind of greener, more outdoor environment.
00:08:53Moving about as far away as you can get from England
00:08:56before you turn around and start coming back was kind of daunting.
00:08:59I really missed my family, my grandparents, my extended family.
00:09:03I did like our life in New Zealand,
00:09:05but I just was really homesick as well.
00:09:10When Emily was about 14, Caroline and I separated.
00:09:15That had a big effect on Emily.
00:09:18She didn't take it very well at all.
00:09:21She definitely had a lot of anxiety.
00:09:25She didn't take it very well at all.
00:09:28She definitely had a rebellious streak.
00:09:33I would be lying in bed and I'd hear her bedroom window open up.
00:09:37So I'd get out of bed and I'd hear running off down the road
00:09:40into a parked car because she was going off into town,
00:09:43clubbing at 15, which of course I was horrified by.
00:09:46But it was pretty hard to stop her
00:09:48unless I put bars on the windows and chained her up.
00:09:52She just wanted to do everything,
00:09:54and she was the kind of kid that was like,
00:09:56well, why can't I? Why can't I do this?
00:10:06Emily left first because it was the summer holidays here.
00:10:10I flew over on Christmas Eve
00:10:12and she found out about this college called Brocketthurst College.
00:10:16So I arrived and Emily said to me,
00:10:18I've got an interview at Brocketthurst College.
00:10:20And I'm like, what?
00:10:23So we went along and then 20 minutes later they came out
00:10:26and Emily was beaming and this lady said,
00:10:28oh, we'd love to have Emily here.
00:10:30And I thought, shit.
00:10:34She was absolutely determined that she wanted to take this place up.
00:10:39Obviously it was a long way away,
00:10:41but she was going to live with my parents in Bournemouth,
00:10:44a very familiar environment.
00:10:47It was a hard decision to make.
00:10:49If I'd said no,
00:10:51I probably would have woken up one night to her window opening
00:10:54and her running off to a car that would have taken her to the airport
00:10:57and she just would have gone anyway.
00:11:01I remember being, like, heartbroken
00:11:04because all I wanted to do at that point
00:11:07was go back to the UK and be with my family.
00:11:10Yeah, I was feeling really, I think, angry and resentful
00:11:14that she left and I stayed.
00:11:27She got a job at Topshop, which she really enjoyed.
00:11:30She was doing business at Brocketthurst.
00:11:32She was really blossoming. She was enjoying it.
00:11:36The first time we heard the name of Elliot Turner,
00:11:39I think, was around her birthday in February.
00:11:44My mother said this guy was kind of on the scene
00:11:47and he seemed to be quite charming, quite responsible.
00:11:51I kind of asked Emily about him and she wasn't too forthcoming.
00:11:55He was just a guy she was seeing.
00:11:58And then my mother asked me if I was OK
00:12:01if they went away for the weekend together
00:12:03and I spoke to Emily and they were going to the Isle of Man
00:12:06and so I said fine.
00:12:09She came back to New Zealand at Easter, April 2011.
00:12:14Oh, my God, the transformation was incredible.
00:12:17She had left a gawky teenager and come back a young woman.
00:12:22She was happy, she was confident.
00:12:25Emily had grown up in some ways
00:12:28and, you know, kind of emotionally matured.
00:12:31She was still, like, fiery and had, like, this drive for life
00:12:36so she was still going out and seeing her friends
00:12:39and still having fun.
00:12:41But then we could, you know, come home and have conversations
00:12:44and hang out and it was nice.
00:12:47We just went back to how it was.
00:12:49I remember walking on the beach with Emily and Hannah
00:12:52and they were a bit behind me
00:12:54and I stopped to look round and let them catch up
00:12:56and I thought, everything's fine now.
00:12:59We're all happy, we've all found our place.
00:13:03I kind of thought she'll tell us about her new boyfriend
00:13:06but we kind of talked about him a bit.
00:13:09I think she told me she was going to go back and end it with him.
00:13:14She didn't really say why.
00:13:17Her and I were in a much better place.
00:13:19I decided to go to the airport with my mum
00:13:22and actually see her off this time.
00:13:24My mum and I were planning on going in July for my 16th birthday.
00:13:29When we were at the airport she had one of her fur coats
00:13:32and I was wearing it for her
00:13:34and she said, oh, you can keep it and you can look after it for me
00:13:37and then when you come back in July you can bring it
00:13:39and you can give it back to me.
00:13:42I was really sad to see her go
00:13:45but I was also really happy that she was going back to a life
00:13:48that she seemed to be really enjoying.
00:13:51I was really proud of her.
00:13:53She went back and I was driving back
00:13:56and she texted me a text.
00:13:58She said, it was great to see you.
00:14:00I love you.
00:14:02Which was the...
00:14:04Sorry.
00:14:12Which was the last communication we had on that trip.
00:14:24I can't have been asleep for very long and I woke up
00:14:28and I just remember thinking, like, what is that noise?
00:14:32And so I came out of my room and went into the lounge
00:14:35and it was my mum screaming.
00:14:38Just this most, like...
00:14:40I don't know what to say.
00:14:42It was just...
00:14:44I don't know what to say.
00:14:46It was just...
00:14:48I don't know what to say.
00:14:51Just this most, like, gut-wrenching horror scream
00:14:56I'd ever heard in my life.
00:14:59The phone was next to her
00:15:01and I just remember picking up the phone.
00:15:04The first person I called was my dad.
00:15:07I woke up and checked my phone
00:15:09and there were a load of missed calls from my mother
00:15:12and from Caroline's number.
00:15:16I listened to my answer machine
00:15:18and I could just hear Caroline wailing in the background
00:15:24and Hannah asking me to call.
00:15:27So I called my mother and my father answered
00:15:30and I don't really remember too much of this conversation
00:15:34but he put a policeman on
00:15:37and the policeman said,
00:15:39we've got a body in the morgue and we think it's your daughter.
00:15:44I just didn't believe that this girl
00:15:46who had just been here a week before
00:15:48and was so full of life,
00:15:50I just didn't believe that she could be dead.
00:15:53Mystery surrounds the death of a 17-year-old New Zealander
00:15:56found dead in Britain.
00:15:59Our New Zealand newsroom was made aware of Emily Longley's death
00:16:04soon after it happened via police media releases.
00:16:09When the news broke, there was a lot of speculation
00:16:12quite a febrile environment of people trying to work out
00:16:15what had happened here and get to the bottom of it.
00:16:18There was a sense that this was just a tragedy.
00:16:21I was concerned for Turner in the first instance.
00:16:24I thought, well, if my son woke up in the morning
00:16:27and his girlfriend was dead,
00:16:29that would be a hugely traumatic experience for the whole family.
00:16:33We were waiting to find out what happened.
00:16:36They said a post-mortem is happening
00:16:39and we are going to check for things like heart attack or cancer.
00:16:46I didn't know what could cause a healthy 17-year-old girl to die.
00:16:51There is sudden death syndrome which can strike in your teens.
00:16:56She could have taken something.
00:16:58She could have mixed a drink with something.
00:17:06Police were saying at that point
00:17:08that they were looking at the toxicology report
00:17:11as an indication to cause of death.
00:17:14Emily was a fit and healthy young lady at the start of her life.
00:17:19We know that Emily was socialising on Friday.
00:17:22Has anyone got any information
00:17:24on anything Emily may have taken on Friday night?
00:17:29The crime scene is first looked at by the crime scene investigators
00:17:34to retrieve any fibres or DNA.
00:17:38And then items of interest, such as phones, computers, bed linen,
00:17:44are also retrieved.
00:17:47As well as looking at the crime scene, forensics, pathology,
00:17:52As well as looking at the crime scene, forensics, pathology,
00:17:57we wanted to get a picture of the relationship
00:18:01between Emily and Elliot.
00:18:04We looked at identifying witnesses and getting first accounts.
00:18:11Very early on in the investigation,
00:18:13I realised that Elliot Turner had a dark side to him.
00:18:23I left the following morning and made the drive to the airport.
00:18:30And we stopped for petrol and I went to pay
00:18:33and there was a newspaper stand
00:18:35and the front page was just a picture of Emily.
00:18:39I almost threw up on the forecourt.
00:18:42It was like someone had whacked me in the stomach
00:18:45with a baseball bat just seeing this.
00:18:49This was very much a story that New Zealanders wanted to hear.
00:18:55We have a rite of passage that we call an OE,
00:18:58an overseas experience for young people in New Zealand
00:19:01to go off travelling.
00:19:04Almost any parent who had a child
00:19:07or anyone who had a friend who'd done that
00:19:09know what it's like to be on your own, far from home,
00:19:13and a little bit vulnerable.
00:19:16I remember being at the airport
00:19:18and I was just in a daze.
00:19:21When someone dies, you're absolutely devastated
00:19:25but no-one else knows about it.
00:19:28And so I was thinking,
00:19:30why are all these people going about their business
00:19:32like nothing's happened?
00:19:34Do they not understand what's happened?
00:19:38And I was thinking they should have shut the airport
00:19:40and cancelled the flights.
00:19:42Why is no-one else sad that my daughter's dead?
00:19:47I remember having a moment on the plane
00:19:49of bursting into tears, of being like,
00:19:51I don't want this flight to end,
00:19:53I don't want to land in England
00:19:55because in the plane we're in a bit of a bubble.
00:19:57We could almost have a sense of denial about it, I suppose.
00:20:02I just remember thinking,
00:20:04this isn't true.
00:20:07I'm going to get to England and this won't be true.
00:20:13We started reaching out to friends of both Emily and Elliot,
00:20:18and very early on we got a picture
00:20:21of quite a toxic relationship between them.
00:20:26During their four-month relationship,
00:20:28Emily had decided to return to New Zealand
00:20:31to see her parents.
00:20:34Through the accounts of witnesses,
00:20:36we determined that she had been sexually abused
00:20:41and he was extremely jealous.
00:20:43He had created this reality for himself
00:20:46that just clearly wasn't true.
00:20:49We discover a voicemail from Elliot Turner to an associate.
00:21:11We started to get a picture of the type of character
00:21:14that Elliot Turner was.
00:21:17Witnesses described Elliot as a flash, cash-rich kid
00:21:23who modelled himself on being a gangster.
00:21:27He had received a warning for harassment when he was 16.
00:21:32I said to Elliot,
00:21:35He had received a warning for harassment when he was 16.
00:21:40Mr Turner seen himself as a little bit of a leader
00:21:43to his group of friends.
00:21:46They would go around thinking that they owned the bars.
00:21:52Emily was introduced to Elliot in January.
00:21:56The relationship she had with Elliot
00:21:58was clearly at times a loving relationship.
00:22:03During that time, what became clear
00:22:06is that Elliot would threaten her, would ridicule her.
00:22:12This was a way to isolate and belittle
00:22:14and all the things that those behaviours are meant to do.
00:22:18He would turn up unannounced and uninvited
00:22:21when Emily went out with friends.
00:22:24He would find out where Emily was drinking that night
00:22:27and he would sit there and wait for her.
00:22:32Emily would say, I'm out with my friends.
00:22:34He'd then go and sit in the car park crying.
00:22:38So Emily would then of course feel sorry for him
00:22:40and go out there and she'd eventually end up leaving with him.
00:22:43Turner exploited this.
00:22:45Emily wouldn't have liked to see anyone upset.
00:22:49He would try and control her, he wanted to know
00:22:51where she was all the time, who she was going out with
00:22:54and where she was going to be.
00:22:56And even down to details of what she wore
00:22:59when she was going out with her friends.
00:23:02His bullying behaviour escalates
00:23:05throughout his relationship with Emily.
00:23:08The picture that I drew of the relationship
00:23:12was that it was actually very violent.
00:23:15Like there were a number of instances
00:23:17where things had gotten violent between the two of them.
00:23:21And it was him being the perpetrator of that.
00:23:25Him dominating over her.
00:23:29He viewed Emily as kind of his possession.
00:23:32He was incredibly jealous.
00:23:34Clearly these are controlling and coercive traits.
00:23:41It became clear at the very start of this investigation
00:23:45that prior to her death, multiple threats had been made.
00:23:52One of the exhibits seized from Elliot's bedroom
00:23:56when he was arrested on the 7th of May
00:23:58was a letter written by Emily to Elliot
00:24:01following their stay at a hotel in the Isle of Man.
00:24:07The content of this letter identified Emily's concerns
00:24:12about the history of threats made by Elliot's war to Emily
00:24:17and concerns about his violent behaviour.
00:24:21In that letter she had told Mr Turner that she loved him
00:24:25but then she also told him to stop saying
00:24:27that you're going to kill me.
00:24:29For her to ask him to stop being so aggressive
00:24:31and that being not aggressive was much hotter,
00:24:34it was clear that this was a pattern of behaviour
00:24:36that he was clearly doing to her.
00:24:42From the 30th of April we discover another voicemail
00:24:45from Elliot Turner where he clearly outlines the fact
00:24:50that he is going to cause serious harm to Emily.
00:24:56Fuck her. You know what? Have every single bird.
00:25:00I'm going to fucking mess this one up.
00:25:02I'm going to fuck her off soon. Absolutely fuck her off soon.
00:25:08We received CCTV from the night of the 30th
00:25:11of Emily entering a bar and making contact with Elliot
00:25:16and he clearly is dismissive of her, doesn't want to speak to her.
00:25:22That then escalates into actually assaulting her
00:25:25in front of friends and in public.
00:25:28And Turner comes up and grabs her head
00:25:30and smashes it into the table.
00:25:35We've heard accounts from witnesses and Emily herself
00:25:40regarding the violence but this was the first footage
00:25:44of actual violence from Elliot towards Emily.
00:25:48Surely this was a red flag to someone.
00:25:51It was incredibly frustrating to hear all this stuff
00:25:55and know that no-one had done anything.
00:26:11The phone data that we'd captured
00:26:15clearly showed the intention by Elliot to cause Emily harm,
00:26:19the intimidation, the insults.
00:26:21This is indicative of someone who is intending
00:26:24to cause their victim physical harm.
00:26:28And the challenge was to show that, to prove or disprove
00:26:34that Elliot Turner had murdered Emily.
00:26:39Within the investigation from witnesses,
00:26:41it became apparent that the relationship
00:26:44was a volatile relationship.
00:26:47Around seven days before Emily died,
00:26:50Emily decided to break up the relationship.
00:26:54She was trying to distance herself from Mr Turner.
00:26:58The effect of that is an escalation of jealousy
00:27:02and violence towards Emily.
00:27:04He wanted to continue to have her and control her.
00:27:08What probably took it to that next level
00:27:11was getting broken up with and realising,
00:27:15oh, I can't always have her, but I need her under my control.
00:27:19He just couldn't take that.
00:27:21That was becoming quite clear.
00:27:23I think he said, if I can't have her, no-one can.
00:27:29On the 5th of May, Elliot Turner died.
00:27:33On the 5th of May, Elliot became aware
00:27:36that Emily was out with another male
00:27:39and he had learnt that they were drinking in a nearby bar.
00:27:45He armed himself with a hammer.
00:27:47His intention was to go over and assault her at the bar.
00:27:52CCTV shows Elliot entering a club with what appears to be
00:27:57a lump hammer down the front of his trousers.
00:28:01Subsequently, the friends notified Emily,
00:28:04who was not at the bar, she was home doing her homework.
00:28:08He didn't make contact with Emily,
00:28:11but he still went on to tell all of Emily's friends
00:28:15that he, in fact, had killed Emily.
00:28:18And later on that evening, he told the friends that it was just a joke.
00:28:23We got this picture built up of this incredibly manipulative man.
00:28:27I think he was kind of testing the boundaries
00:28:30to see if he could get away with it or not.
00:28:33We've had threats regarding a lump hammer.
00:28:36We've had witnesses come forward and friends of Emily
00:28:40saying that he has threatened violence.
00:28:45Well, now we were seeing footage of Elliot going to a club
00:28:50and going into the club with a lump hammer.
00:28:53So it's a clear escalation of violence.
00:29:01On the evening of the 6th of May, Emily decides to go out with friends.
00:29:09CCTV shows she arrives at a bar just after 9pm.
00:29:16And shortly after her arrival,
00:29:19Elliot, who clearly has been following her, also arrives.
00:29:24Both are seen together.
00:29:28We know from text messages between Elliot and his mother
00:29:32that Emily had disrespected him and had poured drink over him
00:29:36and that he intended to harm her.
00:29:40Following the altercation, Emily leaves with a friend, without Elliot,
00:29:45and goes round another friend's house.
00:29:49He turns up at the friend's house
00:29:52and eventually persuades Elliot not to go to the club.
00:29:57Elliot then goes back to the bar
00:30:00and tells his mother that he's not going to go to the club.
00:30:04He turns up at the friend's house
00:30:07and eventually persuades Emily to go with him.
00:30:12Witnesses then report seeing Emily and Elliot
00:30:17arguing outside of his home address.
00:30:22We believed that escalated into him actually killing her
00:30:26in the early hours of the 7th.
00:30:35The investigation progresses into the next few hours.
00:30:40I started to appreciate that Mrs Turner
00:30:44was not being truthful with her account
00:30:47or with her description of the relationship
00:30:50between Emily and Elliot.
00:30:55Mrs Turner gave her opinion on the relationship
00:30:58and said the relationship between Elliot and Emily was loving,
00:31:01that she had no issues, she'd not seen any squabbles or concerns.
00:31:07The report from the paramedics stated that
00:31:11Mrs Turner was very distressed
00:31:14and had given an account of seeing Emily and Elliot in the kitchen
00:31:19having a drink of water at 5 in the morning.
00:31:23When they were later interviewed separately,
00:31:28Mrs Turner changed this account to only seeing Elliot.
00:31:35And also phone data highlighted
00:31:38Mrs Turner had made contact with her husband
00:31:41and waited for him to come home
00:31:44before she reported the death of Emily.
00:31:47The 999 suggested that Emily had only recently been found not breathing.
00:31:54Emily had only recently been found not breathing by Mrs Turner.
00:31:59Present at the time was Mr Turner
00:32:03and he can be heard on the 999.
00:32:15The early accounts given by Mr Turner
00:32:18will say that he received a phone call from Mrs Turner
00:32:22when he was working in Bournemouth,
00:32:24which meant he would have had to have travelled
00:32:27several miles to his home address
00:32:29before the phone call was then made to the emergency services,
00:32:33suggesting that there potentially was a delay of between one and two hours
00:32:37from the time that she knew that Emily was deceased.
00:32:41Mr and Mrs Turner were not telling us the truth.
00:32:45They were holding back on information around the death of Emily.
00:32:53I got off the plane and I went straight to the morgue where Emily was.
00:32:59I still didn't believe that it was Emily.
00:33:02I thought I'm going to get there and it won't be her.
00:33:05It'll be someone else.
00:33:08And the lights slowly came up and it just seemed to take forever.
00:33:12And I remember thinking I'm going to look at the bed and it won't be Emily.
00:33:16It'll be someone else and I'll say,
00:33:19it'll be someone else and I'll say,
00:33:21that's not her.
00:33:23And the light came up and sure enough,
00:33:27it was Emily lying on the bed.
00:33:34I touched her face to wake her up and it was just,
00:33:38it was cold, like ice cold.
00:33:42It still felt smooth, like she had skin like alabaster.
00:33:47The walls of my world just came tumbling down.
00:34:05By Saturday afternoon, we have established a motive.
00:34:10We have got evidence from text messages
00:34:13and from accounts by witnesses.
00:34:16We had discrepancies in the timeline.
00:34:19We are now awaiting the results of the post-mortem examination
00:34:23that's taking place on Saturday evening.
00:34:27We fully expected to hear that Elliot Turner
00:34:31had caused the death of Emily through injury to her neck.
00:34:37The results of the post-mortem came back
00:34:40and the results were unascertained.
00:34:43The pathologist could not give a verdict on the cause of death.
00:34:48There was insufficient evidence to suggest
00:34:51that Emily had been asphyxiated or suffocated.
00:34:55The pathologist was saying that she had not died from strangulation.
00:35:00Going one step further, he also suggested
00:35:04that whilst it was rare,
00:35:07death in young people does happen through natural causes.
00:35:16We had no information.
00:35:18The toxicology report had come back clean.
00:35:21There were no obvious internal or external injuries to Emily Longley.
00:35:26There was one minor bruise to Elliot Turner,
00:35:30which who was to say at that point was even related.
00:35:34So it was very difficult to say what this story was even about.
00:35:40It wasn't alcohol related. She hadn't taken any drugs.
00:35:44There didn't seem to be an obvious reason why she died.
00:35:49What we had to continue with is to try and prove or disprove
00:35:53that Elliot Turner had murdered Emily.
00:35:59Investigators had noticed an exhibit
00:36:02that had been photographed on the scene was now missing.
00:36:05And this was a jacket.
00:36:07It became apparent that the parents
00:36:10had been allowed to visit the scene that Sunday morning.
00:36:14Mr Turner stated he wanted to recover some medicine
00:36:18and they were allowed into the crime scene
00:36:21and once they'd left the crime scene, the exhibit had disappeared.
00:36:28They were immediately spoken to about it
00:36:31and denied removing the item
00:36:34and then decided to disengage from contact with the police.
00:36:40The disappearance of the jacket further enhanced my suspicion
00:36:45that Mr and Mrs Turner were not telling us the truth.
00:36:55The first interview took place on the 8th of May in the morning.
00:37:01We normally try to establish some kind of rapport, open communication,
00:37:05talk about common themes that we may have interests in.
00:37:09But there was nothing with Elliot. There was nothing there.
00:37:14He would laugh at some of our questions that we put to him.
00:37:17He would snigger and he would smirk.
00:37:21Mr Turner showed no remorse or sympathy or concern
00:37:27for Emily or for Emily's family
00:37:30and he replied no comment to all questions.
00:37:35We believed that he had killed Emily
00:37:38but at that time there was insufficient evidence
00:37:41to charge him with any offence
00:37:45and he was placed on police bail.
00:37:58Murder investigations are never straightforward.
00:38:03We had exhausted other means to recover information around this case.
00:38:10Elliot had decided to not reply to any of our questions on interview
00:38:16and the parents had now disengaged and were not speaking to the police.
00:38:22It was frustrating not to have a conclusive post mortem
00:38:26result but Neil Devota was very up front with me.
00:38:30He said I can't tell you everything, you've just got to trust us.
00:38:35They believed that Elliot Turner had killed her
00:38:38and that they were committed to proving that.
00:38:42I make a request to specialist unit
00:38:46that I want to hear the content of conversation
00:38:50in a house between Elliot and his parents.
00:38:54What we needed was a cause of death.
00:38:59Covid monitoring, as you can imagine,
00:39:01the bugging of somebody's house
00:39:04is at the very extreme end of that sort of activity.
00:39:09Elliot Turner was suspected of probably the most serious offence
00:39:13on the statute, murder, and therefore it was decided
00:39:17that that tactic may be appropriate to establish his involvement or otherwise.
00:39:25We were listening out for certainly the admissions,
00:39:28key discussions around the circumstances of the case,
00:39:32whether that be key witnesses, key evidence,
00:39:35key movements, key activities.
00:39:42So on the evening of the 18th of May,
00:39:44we heard Mr Turner, Elliot's father,
00:39:48talking about the destruction of vital evidence in relation to the case.
00:39:55Every second of my day, it's burning.
00:40:03I know something that they don't know.
00:40:06It's burning me. It's heating me up.
00:40:15I'm now a feminist.
00:40:18Mr Turner clearly referred to the letter being a confession,
00:40:23outlining Elliot Turner's guilt.
00:40:40That was a startling moment within the investigation.
00:40:45Clearly a significant piece of evidence.
00:40:50Without that, we would not have been made aware
00:40:52of his parents' complicitness in the offence.
00:40:57It also goes on to explain that this letter was disposed of.
00:41:03It's quite possible that that confession letter
00:41:07had been hidden in the jacket,
00:41:10which was the item removed by Mrs Turner
00:41:14when she returned to the crime scene and was given access.
00:41:41It's looking strange, isn't it?
00:41:46For the dad to refer to it as a strangulation,
00:41:48clearly this is of huge significance to the major crime team.
00:41:57So in the early hours of 21st of May,
00:41:59there was a conversation between Elliot Turner and his parents.
00:42:03He was talking about his mistreatment of Emily.
00:42:10HE SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY
00:42:17It didn't clearly prove that he had murdered her,
00:42:20but it gave an indication of his character
00:42:23and his behaviour towards her.
00:42:35HEARTBEAT THUMPS
00:42:41In the early hours of the 1st of June,
00:42:43it's quite apparent that Elliot Turner
00:42:45has been conducting some research on a computer.
00:42:48HE SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY
00:43:05Why would you research those terms on a computer?
00:43:08A person researching the information
00:43:10clearly has got something to worry about.
00:43:13Whilst it isn't a clear admission of guilt,
00:43:17it is significant contributory evidence
00:43:20to Elliot Turner's state of mind.
00:43:23You can hear first-hand from Elliot and from his parents
00:43:28about the criminal activity that they'd been involved in,
00:43:31which had resulted in the death of Emily.
00:43:35There's a conversation between Elliot and his mother.
00:43:38It is clear Elliot is discussing with her
00:43:41the reason that there was a delay in calling 999 and ambulance.
00:43:47You need to say that that phone call wasn't about Emily.
00:43:49That phone call was about Elliot for work.
00:43:52He's being a lazy bastard.
00:43:56Yeah, yeah, Mum, but focus the conversation
00:43:59because it looks fucking... You look so guilty.
00:44:02You look so guilty by ringing the father.
00:44:06But, Mum, Mum, please, from a policeman's point of view,
00:44:09it's so obvious.
00:44:12When it came to speaking about Emily,
00:44:15there was never any tears or breakdown or emotions
00:44:21when the subject of Emily and her death was discussed.
00:44:42The results that we got back from the covert product
00:44:47were far beyond what we expected.
00:44:50Not only did it point to Elliot's responsibility for Emily's death,
00:44:55but it also painted a picture of the dynamics within the household,
00:45:00the lengths that his parents would go to
00:45:03to try and exonerate him,
00:45:05to try and ensure that he was never found guilty of the crime.
00:45:11What the covert product did was fill all the gaps
00:45:16and we had an understanding of how Emily had died.
00:45:20On 19th July 2011, Mr and Mrs Turner were arrested
00:45:24for perverting the course of justice.
00:45:27Elliot Turner was arrested for the murder of Emily Longley
00:45:31and perverting the course of justice.
00:45:41We interviewed Elliot a number of times over the two subsequent days,
00:45:45detailing all the evidence that we have.
00:45:48The knowledge of a letter, of a letter that was written by Elliot
00:45:52and concealed and destroyed by his parents.
00:45:55And we've actually played some discs of the actual audio recordings.
00:46:00We hoped that once he realised we had a covert product
00:46:04and once he realised the details of the covert product,
00:46:08he might want to speak to us.
00:46:10At times, he could tell he wanted to speak
00:46:14or wanted to give a reply or a reaction,
00:46:18but his solicitor reminded him of his advice
00:46:22for Mr Turner to make no comment.
00:46:24There was deemed to be sufficient evidence to charge Mr Turner
00:46:28and late that day he was charged with the murder of Emily.
00:46:33This was a shocking case of domestic violence.
00:46:37It didn't matter that they were young
00:46:39and the relationship was quite short.
00:46:42I began to build the case with the police
00:46:45and start the preparations, ultimately, for the trial.
00:46:49We had a murder that took place with only two people in that room
00:46:53and there was obviously no CCTV footage.
00:46:56We had a murder that took place with only two people in that room
00:47:00and there was obviously no CCTV within that room.
00:47:03We had to put together what we knew in terms of the build-up,
00:47:06what we could prove as far as the relationship was concerned.
00:47:10There was the text messages, the CCTV,
00:47:14the build-up that you could see in terms of the jealousy.
00:47:18This was a case where there probably wasn't one major piece of evidence.
00:47:24It was putting together every single strand of it
00:47:28and when you put it together it presented a compelling picture.
00:47:38The lack of an obvious cause of death
00:47:41was kind of the one big sticking point with the case.
00:47:45The rest of it was kind of stacking up
00:47:47but they didn't know for sure how Emily had died.
00:47:51We went to see the renowned physician Jason Payne-James
00:47:55and put to him the injuries to Emily and the injuries to Elliot.
00:48:02Were they consistent with Elliot causing the death of Emily?
00:48:08The police asked me to look at the case
00:48:12and then give a further opinion based on the new evidence
00:48:16that hadn't been initially available to the forensic pathologist
00:48:19or the investigators at an earlier stage.
00:48:26She had some minor bruises, petechiae,
00:48:29inside her upper eyelids and inside her upper lip.
00:48:34There are no marks, there are no bruises.
00:48:37Elliot had a bruise to his arm and he had scratch to the left arm.
00:48:42We can't date the bruise to the arm, the scratch to the arm,
00:48:46but it suggested that he'd been involved in some form of altercation at some stage.
00:48:53So one of the other findings that we have to consider is
00:48:57if somebody's grabbed around the neck,
00:49:00is there a possibility they can be grabbed,
00:49:02compressed around the neck without responding, without fighting?
00:49:06If somebody's taken alcohol or somebody's strong enough to overpower them,
00:49:11then there may not be any signs of external injury.
00:49:16Is that consistent with somebody having neck compression leading to their death?
00:49:21And the answer is very simply, yes, it is.
00:49:34It was coming into winter.
00:49:38Every day seemed dark and miserable.
00:49:42And to be honest, I didn't really know what to do.
00:49:46Everyone kept saying to me, like, you just need to find a new normal.
00:49:51And I was like, what's just happened to me isn't normal.
00:49:55We got a trial date, which was something we could psych ourselves up for.
00:50:00Life awaiting trial is just horrific.
00:50:05It was more than just grief, it was depression, it was horrible.
00:50:11We wanted to be at the trial to support Emily, really.
00:50:15We wanted to be there and look the turners in the eye every day
00:50:20and know that Emily was still loved and missed.
00:50:35Day one of the trial, I was really nervous.
00:50:40I didn't want Turner to get off.
00:50:42I wanted everyone to know the truth about what happened.
00:50:46You feel pressure in every case.
00:50:48This was heightened because of the media attention,
00:50:51not just in this country, but also in New Zealand.
00:50:55The boyfriend of a New Zealand teenager found dead in the UK
00:50:58will appear in court in several hours charged with her murder.
00:51:03From day one, when I turned up to Winchester Court,
00:51:05I thought this was going to be a big trial.
00:51:07I don't know that I understood quite how important
00:51:09and how much appetite there would be for coverage of it
00:51:11until we got underway.
00:51:16I heard the prosecution outline the case against him,
00:51:21which included the progressively more violent behaviour towards Emily.
00:51:24I was so stunned with what I'd heard that he had done to my daughter.
00:51:29I just couldn't believe it.
00:51:33The first time I saw him properly was when he was in the witness box
00:51:36being cross-examined.
00:51:39And I thought he was an arrogant prick, really.
00:51:43Alec Turner, to me, almost seemed like
00:51:45he was expecting this would be over soon.
00:51:47And it was a bit of a bore.
00:51:49It was wasting his time.
00:51:51There'd be a few moments where he'd, like, look up
00:51:54and you'd kind of catch his eye and he'd kind of try and stare you out
00:51:57and I would stare right back.
00:51:59I hope you can see that this is a family
00:52:01and how much hurt is going through all of these people.
00:52:05We set out that this was domestic violence,
00:52:09that there was a build-up.
00:52:12I think that was really important to understand,
00:52:15that the anger and the jealousy in Elliot Turner
00:52:19was building and building.
00:52:22We wanted to call the witnesses,
00:52:25who could give details as to what was happening
00:52:28in the months, weeks, days before the murder.
00:52:32They were terrified and they were so nervous,
00:52:34but they had fire in them.
00:52:37Like, they were going to fight for her.
00:52:39Like, none of them backed down.
00:52:41None of them were on her side.
00:52:44There were a number of young witnesses
00:52:46being called by the prosecution.
00:52:48A friend gave evidence that he and Elliot Turner,
00:52:51the day before the murder,
00:52:53actually practised a chokehold.
00:52:56Prior to the trial, an associate of Elliot approached police
00:53:00to say that, on the 6th of May, Elliot was in a rage
00:53:04and he was looking at ways in which he could kill Emily.
00:53:10And they had gone for a walk into a wooded area
00:53:13near Turner's home address.
00:53:16And they had discussed how he was going to do it.
00:53:20Whether he was going to set fire to her
00:53:22or I think he was going to drown her.
00:53:24And they practised this chokehold.
00:53:30Elliot proceeded to practise the manoeuvre on the associate,
00:53:35placing the arm around the neck.
00:53:39At one point, the associate said that he feared for his life
00:53:44because Elliot wouldn't be able to do it.
00:53:47And that he feared for his life because Elliot wouldn't let go
00:53:51and he nearly passed out.
00:53:55I just thought, surely, at this point,
00:53:57someone is putting together that Emily's actually in danger.
00:54:01She's in serious danger by now.
00:54:03This has gone beyond the realms of normality.
00:54:07This was premeditated.
00:54:09He practised what he was going to do on one of his friends.
00:54:12This was an opportunity where someone could have said,
00:54:14this isn't OK and this is actually going too far.
00:54:18If there had ever been any doubts
00:54:20that Elliot Turner might be the kind of person
00:54:22that was capable of putting someone in a stranglehold,
00:54:26we now knew that he definitely was the kind of person
00:54:30because he was doing it with his friends.
00:54:33It could be suggested that's just bravado.
00:54:36But ultimately, this was demonstrating
00:54:39how you could kill the day before you actually do kill.
00:54:43And I think that was really important evidence.
00:54:48Elliot Turner said that actually he was acting in self-defence
00:54:52against an attack that Emily Longley was carrying out against him.
00:54:57He didn't show remorse at all.
00:54:59Every opportunity he got, he would try and spin it
00:55:02so that he wasn't in the wrong.
00:55:05He wasn't in the slightest bit upset that his girlfriend was dead.
00:55:10It was so obvious that it prompted the lawyer to say,
00:55:13you don't seem very sad that Emily's dead.
00:55:16And he said, well, it was a year ago.
00:55:19There was a kind of gasp from the public gallery.
00:55:24No-one could believe that he'd said that.
00:55:30There was a fair bit riding on the evidence of Dr Jason Payne-James
00:55:35because we still didn't know definitely what was the cause of death.
00:55:41We started hearing about the stranglehold.
00:55:44But it was the relation between that and the lack of injuries,
00:55:48both to Elliot Turner and Emily Longley.
00:55:53If I put pressure on somebody's neck,
00:55:56to a certain degree, we know that within nine, ten seconds,
00:56:00somebody will be rendered unconscious.
00:56:02They can't struggle.
00:56:04And then prolonged pressure,
00:56:06which won't leave any visible marks,
00:56:09will result in death.
00:56:13What the prosecution were saying through Jason Payne-James' evidence
00:56:17was that a stranglehold is a very strange technique
00:56:21to hold someone in if you're acting in self-defence.
00:56:26This really helped in dismantling self-defence.
00:56:29It really assisted in terms of the credibility
00:56:33of the suggestion that there was just a push to the neck.
00:56:36It clearly wasn't that. This wasn't self-defence.
00:56:43There was one damning bit of evidence on Turner's shirt.
00:56:47There was traces of Emily's make-up.
00:56:50At the crook of Elliot's shirt,
00:56:52there was evidence of Emily's saliva and DNA to the forearm.
00:56:59It certainly is suggestive that Elliot's forearm
00:57:03was around her mouth and possibly her neck.
00:57:07It was kind of like a light went on with the jury.
00:57:10That was the missing piece.
00:57:13The most crucial evidence came in the covert recordings.
00:57:18This was damning.
00:57:29It was such compelling testimony to hear people in their own words
00:57:33talking about how they had tried to cover up evidence,
00:57:37what they should be telling the police.
00:57:39Just the kind of stuff that blows your mind, really.
00:57:54I question his mum in court.
00:57:57I think what came through that evidence is exactly what our theory was,
00:58:01that both Elliot Turner's mum and dad
00:58:04were going to do everything they could to support their son
00:58:07but also to pervert the course of justice.
00:58:11She was very good at presenting her son as the victim in all this.
00:58:15That she was just a mother who was trying to help her son
00:58:18and they shouldn't be there, and I don't think it fooled anyone.
00:58:22So I played the 999 call to Elliot Turner's mum
00:58:26when she gave her evidence in court.
00:58:44It really exposed her as somebody who knew what her son had done
00:58:49but simply was prepared to go through a charade of a 999 call.
00:58:55Letting the authorities think that this was an unexplained death
00:58:59when she knew plainly it wasn't.
00:59:01This is your opportunity to speak to a lot of people
00:59:04who can't understand why you did what you did.
00:59:07Do you have anything at all to say?
00:59:09They didn't even have the decency to call an ambulance
00:59:12when they found out that she was dead.
00:59:14Their first concern was to try and concoct a story to get Turner off.
00:59:19At least give Emily the dignity of being taken away from the home
00:59:23and not lying in the bed of the man who murdered her.
00:59:37Whenever a jury goes out to deliberate in a trial,
00:59:41it's always very tense.
00:59:44It was an agonising few days sitting in the waiting room.
00:59:49We made every argument that we should make,
00:59:52put forward every piece of evidence that there was,
00:59:55but you never know.
00:59:57Ultimately, you put your arguments before the jury and they decide.
01:00:04We went in together and we were all sitting in the gallery.
01:00:08We're going to hear the biggest decision of our lives.
01:00:13If we thought the tension was high at the beginning of the trial,
01:00:16it was nothing on how that courtroom felt
01:00:19just before the verdict was to be delivered.
01:00:23Everybody was just there hanging on what the jury was about to say.
01:00:31The jury all comes back.
01:00:33They all sit down and it's like,
01:00:35just get on with it, just put us out of our misery.
01:00:38I can't remember what they said,
01:00:40but it was, do you find Elliot Turner guilty or not guilty?
01:00:47And they said guilty.
01:00:51The jury found Elliot Turner guilty of murder.
01:00:54They found his parents guilty of perverting the course of justice.
01:00:59He was exposed for what he is and he was a liar.
01:01:03I just remember this howl when the verdict went down
01:01:08and I knew straight away it had to be Emily's mum up in the public gallery.
01:01:13That was a mother finally hearing what she'd come to hear.
01:01:21I just remember thinking, thank God, it's done, it's over, this is it.
01:01:26We can start to heal now and grieve properly
01:01:31and actually even start that grieving process.
01:01:36I lost a beautiful daughter, Emily.
01:01:40If he was up, if he was on the cusp of an outfit, he would turn a murderer down.
01:01:46He'll still love her very much.
01:01:49You know, I was just so relieved that the kind of truth had come out
01:01:54that he had murdered Emily and he was going to pay the price for it.
01:01:59You know, I felt in some way relieved that Emily had received justice,
01:02:05but I also felt that Elliot is not going to be able to ruin someone else's life.
01:02:29I went back to New Zealand about a week later.
01:02:33You just try and get through every day and you have this burden of grief,
01:02:39which is crippling at times.
01:02:43You learn to live with your grief, but your grief is still there every single day.
01:02:48I think about Emily every single day.
01:02:52You find things in your life to give you hope and a reason to keep going.
01:02:57My dad had two more kids and my step-mom basically gave birth to me and my sister in boy form.
01:03:04Like, the older younger brother is like my twin
01:03:07and then my younger younger brother is Emily's twin and it's just so bizarre.
01:03:12The fact that we got that in the family is just, yeah, amazing.
01:03:17Something that really struck me about how manipulative and controlling Elliot Turner was.
01:03:23He just wanted to control her.
01:03:25In the relationship, that was controlling, you know, what she wore, who she saw, who she spoke to.
01:03:31Killing someone is the ultimate way that you can control them, you end their life.
01:03:37I definitely think Emily thought that she could handle it.
01:03:41She thought she could handle everything.
01:03:43But at the same time, I don't think she really understood the danger she was in.
01:03:49There is now a statutory offence of coercive and controlling behaviour.
01:03:54That's really important to reflect that behaviour specifically in a crime.
01:04:01Don't assume that domestic abuse is a crime.
01:04:07If somebody is excessively or obsessively asking you what you did last night, who you were with,
01:04:13where are you going, call me, text me.
01:04:16Being very aggressive to you one minute, very kind of loving and affectionate to the other,
01:04:21which is what Turner was like.
01:04:24When they start to isolate you, you start to realise that you're not alone.
01:04:29Very kind of loving and affectionate to the other, which is what Turner was like.
01:04:35When they start to isolate you from other people in your world, and it can be really subtle, you know,
01:04:41it's educating ourselves on what these red flags are,
01:04:44and not only what they are, but what to do when you're faced with them.
01:04:49And it's something that men have got to address and deal with.
01:04:52If you see your mate behaving like this, just say something.
01:04:57You are the most influential person in your friend's life.
01:05:02We know that it's incredibly difficult for anybody to report this.
01:05:06We understand that, but the message always is that there is support,
01:05:10and to encourage the reporting of domestic violence,
01:05:15and to know that you have the support of the authorities,
01:05:19and ultimately, you have the support of a prosecution.
01:05:23There comes a point where you have to move past what happened.
01:05:28Emily was murdered, and the last time I saw her was in a morgue,
01:05:32and we had a trial, and all that is really unpleasant.
01:05:37That's not the place where I live with Emily.
01:05:39Daddy!
01:05:40Emily.
01:05:41Boo.
01:05:44I live in the happy memories of her.
01:05:48I live in the happy memories of her.
01:05:55If you or someone you know has been affected by any of the issues raised in tonight's programme,
01:06:00please go to channel5.com slash helplines for information and support.
01:06:06More true crime coming up.
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