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Daily Mirror
19-05-2025
- Daily Mirror
Harrowing final moments of mum murdered in front of daughter on school run
A new series of Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan delves into the shocking stabbing of a young mother on the school run and reveals heartbreaking details about her final moments The last words a mum heard after she was stabbed to death on the school run in front of her young daughter have been revealed in a new TV documentary. Ricardo Godinho repeatedly stabbed ex-wife Aliny Godinho, 39, in broad daylight, and in front of other terrified mothers, as she walked with her little girl to collect her two sons from school in Epsom, Surrey. The frenzied knife attack on February 8, 2019, happened in just 17 seconds as Ms Godinho held her three-year-old daughter's hand. The couple, who had moved together from Brazil to live in the UK, had separated in December 2018. Godinho, 41, who had followed them in his car, was later arrested and confessed to the crime, but he would only admit to manslaughter during his trial. A new episode of Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan has pieced together Ms Godinho's last hours, during which unbeknown to her she was being tracked by her ex-husband using her phone's Find My iPhone function. CCTV images captured Aliny catching the bus at 2.38pm from where she was staying in Streatham to Epsom, along with her daughter. She got off the bus at 2:55 pm to collect her other children from school. Godinho was waiting for them in his pick-up truck when they got off. He mounted the grass verge alongside where they were walking, jumped out tof he vehicle and started stabbing her repeatedly, before dropping the murder weapon and driving off. A friend of Aliny revealed that the mother was already convinced that Godinho wanted to kill her, but believed that he would never attempt to attack her if she was with their daughter. Lucienne Monteiro told the programme: 'She believed that she was safe because of the children. So, from that week, she took her little child, the girl, with her to school every day, because she felt protected. The little one was his favourite one. So, she thought like he won't hurt her.' But she was wrong. Ms Monteiro said: 'She didn't have the time to defend herself. She didn't have any marks on the arm or anything; it was really fast. They said that he stabbed her and then, as she was falling down, he kept stabbing her, without saying anything. And then when he'd done that, he just look at his little one and then he walk away.' A court later heard how the distraught girl told a witness immediately after seeing her father kill her mother: "Mummy's not coming back". Revealing the last words Ms Godinho heard, Ms Monteiro told how a bystander who had witnessed the horrific murder went up to her as she lay dying and reassured her that Godinho had not injured her daughter. She said: "As a mother, I guess you can imagine in your mind, to be going that way and scared that something was happening with her little one,' she says. "So this lady came and said to her, 'your baby's OK'. So I hope she went in peace." Godinho was found guilty of murder and possessing an offensive weapon by Guildford Crown Court and sentenced to life with a minimum of 27 years in July 2019. However, when he was transferred to a prison in Brazil in 2022, it meant his sentence was changed to 30 years in jail.
Daily Mirror
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Sky News anchor launches attack on ex-colleagues over advert he'd 'never do'
The former Sky News presenter, 67, said he wouldn't name names but it was clear which famous newsmen he was referring to - while he didn't spare John Sergeant for his dodgy dance moves either Dermot Murnaghan has launched an acerbic attack on his former newsreader colleagues who have taken money for appearing in adverts he says are ripping off customers. The veteran broadcaster, who left Sky News in 2023 after 15 years at the helm, refused to name names when he slammed "former news people" who are flogging overpriced gold sovereigns. But he was clearly referring to former fellow colleagues Michael Buerk and Nicholas Owen, who have both appeared in commercials selling gold coins for Hattons of London. Speaking to the Mirror, Dermot, 67, said: 'When you're a live newsreader you're banned by Ofcom from advertising anything, because you have a degree of credibility. But once you stop, you can, and some of my former colleagues do. Some of the things they advertise, well, I'm going to leave it there, I wouldn't'. But went on: 'I may be cutting off a lucrative revenue stream for myself, but gold sovereigns at four times the price that they actually do cost, yeah, I wouldn't do that. 'Let me say to anyone who sees this, you can get gold sovereigns, if you want them - I don't have any, but just look up the price - cheaper than those being pumped towards you by some former news people.' Hattons of London, a website which sells commemorative gold coins and sovereigns, proudly claims Michael Buerk is their "most recurring presenter" who has helped them sell products since 2020, including the 2020 VE Day 75th Anniversary Gold Sovereign Range and the 2022 Queen Elizabeth II Tribute Gold One Eighth Sovereign. Buerk, whose reporting of the Ethiopian famine in in 1984 inspired Band Aid, was anchor of the BBC News at Ten until his retirement in 2024. Nicholas Owen, who worked for ITV Evening News and BBC news role before retiring in 2019 after a career spanning over 50 years, has also worked for Hattons, advertising their St George and the Dragon Bi-Metallic Gold Sovereign Range in 2022. Since his own retirement, Dermot has carved a different career path as the presenter of several popular true crime series on Crime+Investigation. He's back on screens next week with the fifth run of Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan, which delves into some of Britain's most chilling murder cases. But the veteran newsman admitted it's still 'incredibly frustrating' to just be a normal TV viewer and not in the interviewer's seat. I'm throwing soft shoes at the television screen and knocking the radio over when I hear it, because that's my obsession, I can't give it up. 'If I hear another politician say 'nothing's off the table' or 'we're doing this for the national interest', I'm just screaming, 'Of course you are, but what are you doing?! What the heckity-heck does that mean?'' And he didn't spare another fellow newsreader, John Sergeant, famous after his retirement for his cringy dance moves on Strictly - something else Dermot said he won't do. Dermot revealed he once had secret tests for the BBC show. He said: "I had some meetings with the producers and I did one of the secret squirrel test dances, where you get to dance with one of the wonderful dancers in a blacked out rehearsal room in central London, four or five months before the production "I did mine and I turned to the producers sitting at the edge of the floor and said to them, 'You can see I have no rhythm, I can't hold the tune, and I certainly can't dance. And they chucked and went, 'Exactly.' They obviously want someone just like that." But he said he couldn't bring himself to embarrass himself on live TV. He said: "I don't think I could do it. Every season has an old guy, you know. Although no-one goes as far as John Sergeant. Who could ever forget that? Dragging his poor dancer around the room like a coat at a party." The new series of Killer Britain, presented by Dermot Murnaghan starts Monday 12th May on the Crime + Investigation channel
Daily Mirror
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Mum's last words and son's screams recorded by husband who stabbed her to death
Veteran newsreader Dermot Murnaghan is back on our screens presenting true crime series Killer Britain, which explores how ordinary events can lead to 'extraordinary murders' The harrowing tale of a 31-year-old mother who was knifed to death by her estranged husband in a fit of jealousy is just one account of "extraordinary awfulness" being told by Dermot Murnaghan. The 67-year-old former newsreader left Sky News in February 2023 and is now fronting a new true-crime documentary series, Killer Britain, which starts on Monday. Dermot says he was struck by 'how ordinary a lot of these events are, until they lead to the extraordinary awfulness of the murder." Andrew Parsons, 38, attacked Janee Parsons, 31, in their Bicester home in front of their young son on December 1, 2012. He was caught after the murder was recorded on a dictation machine he had hidden under a bed to spy on his wife, which captured their young son's screams and Janee mumbling words of prayer before she died. She was heard saying: "Oh my God, no, no, dear God forgive me for my sins." Dermot told the Mirror: "Everyone knows people who are in deteriorating or inappropriate relationships. A lot of the stories in this series are about really nice human beings who trusted someone else utterly, and they were turned upon and paid for it with their lives. Like Michaela, everyone could see was in an abusive relationship and was being sucked in but couldn't talk her out of it. 'The case of Janee Parsons particularly stuck in my mind. Again, it is a common scenario, the breakdown of a relationship, a jealous partner obsessed with the other who is trying to build a new life. 'Her murder was recorded by the boyfriend's own dictation machine, which was what ultimately caught him, that was the chilling, extraordinary thing about the case.' Many of the murders were stories Dermot remembers covering during his 30-year career presenting news on ITV, BBC and Sky. 'That's why in this series I talk more about my own involvement," he said. "But it's not about me, it's first and foremost about the victim, and about their family and friends, so that people can hear their stories.' The show, now in its fifth run, delves into some of Britain's most chilling murder cases, with first-hand accounts from detectives as well as the heartrending testimony of victims' families. Another case covered in the ten-part series on the Crime + Investigation channel includes the 2021 murder of Michaela Hall, 49, a former airline flight attendant who was stabbed through the eye by her violent boyfriend Lee Kendall, after he had constantly abused her for two years. While most of us are no longer hearing Dermot's familiar voice when the evening TV news comes on, his family certainly are, according to the veteran newsreader. He says he now throws his shoes and screams at the TV screen whenever he sees a politician managing to get off lightly in an interview. And don't even get him started on the adverts. He says it's 'incredibly frustrating' to just be a normal TV viewer and not in the interviewer's seat. "I'm throwing soft shoes at the television screen and knocking the radio over when I hear it, because that's my obsession, I can't give it up. 'If I hear another politician say 'nothing's off the table' or 'we're doing this for the national interest', I'm just screaming, 'Of course you are, but what are you doing?! What the heckity-heck does that mean?'' Not that he thinks he was any better at on-air grilling. He adds: 'There are some brilliant people operating, way, way better than me. But I think the politicians have got way more adept at side-stepping questions.' But he doesn't hold back on seeing his former colleagues flogging gold sovereigns during the ad breaks. Dermot says he's not 'naming names', but he's clearly referring to former fellow newsreaders Michael Burke and Nicholas Owen, who have both appeared in commercials selling gold coins for Hattons of London. 'When you're a live newsreader you're banned by Ofcom from advertising anything, because you have a degree of credibility. But once you stop, you can, and some of my former colleagues do. Some of the things they advertise, well, I'm going to leave it there, I wouldn't.' But he doesn't leave it there: 'I may be cutting off a lucrative revenue stream for myself, but gold sovereigns at four times the price that they actually do cost, yeah, I wouldn't do that. 'Let me say to anyone who sees this, you can get gold sovereigns, if you want them - I don't have any, but just look up the price - cheaper than those being pumped towards you by some former news people.' Dermot was destined to become a historian after completing a history degree and masters, but turned to journalism, working on local newspapers in the 80s before joining Channel 4 as a researcher, where he also got his first opportunities in front of the camera. Presenting the biggest news programmes on all three terrestrial channels, he became one of the most trusted faces on TV and covered the biggest stories, including breaking the news of the death of Princess Diana and the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. He finally signed off Sky News after 16 years with a quote from newsreader movie Anchorman, throwing his news notes from his desk with the words: 'You stay classy, planet Earth. Goodbye.' But despite his frustration with now having to watch the news from his sofa, Dermot insists he doesn't miss breaking it. 'Not at all, really, really not,' he says. 'I've done my innings, I hope I was decent at it, at least semi- coherent, but you can't be there forever. 'It was just hectic. I mean, I don't think I ever went on a holiday when I didn't expect to be called back from it. Now I get to chill, grow a beard, do things I've always wanted to. I did a big tour of Vietnam and Singapore, absolutely untrammelled by the idea that something might happen to cut it short.' His wife of 36 years, Maria Keegan, on the other hand, has taken more convincing, he says. 'It's the first time I haven't been employed by a big organisation. Suddenly I was at home a lot more and there was a sense of, 'Oh OK, we'll have to get used to this then, this is different'. I think the same as before would have suited her I expect. 'But we've got our own friends, we do our own things, I got out on my bike, I go away on breaks with my mates.' Making their north London home even more crowded are two of Dermot's four adult children - three daughters and two sons, aged between 23 and 33 - who have recently moved back in. He says: 'Like a lot of families, they're following different paths but accommodation is very expensive and as for buying anything… young people these days have no chance. 'One's an environmentalist, another is in something I don't understand, metaverse marketing or something, one's a football coach and another's in PR.' There are no grandfather duties expected soon, but Dermot says: 'I've no comment to make on that. They're fully grown adults and their plans for the future are obviously up to them. But you know, if I could drop a gentle hint to them, it would be 'Get a crack on lad, whenever you want'.' In the meantime, though, the veteran newsman has got several big projects of his own. He's finally getting round to writing his memoirs, and also hints that he's following in the footsteps of other former TV journalists and will soon be launching a podcast. He says: 'The memoir is one of the things I'm tinkering at. Every now and again I pull some of my notes out and think, 'oh my goodness, I interviewed that person'. Another extraordinary moment that came to mind the other day was on the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, I was lucky enough to interview the woman who was the closest to ground zero. 'So many people were vaporised and she wasn't far away, but survived and had horrible cancers. I remember sitting in a park with tears pouring down my cheeks as she expressed forgiveness, after all that had happened to her. She made me an origami crane, which I found the other day upstairs in the attic with the rest of the dusty memories.' Yet another is his infamous interview with then Labour minister Peter Mandelson, who resigned from the cabinet in 1999 after Dermot questioned him over the way he had filled out a mortgage application, and exchange which won him the Royal Television Society Interviewer of the Year award. But as he watches the news unfold on his living room TV, isn't he secretly itching to grill the new famous faces of today's international events? Dermot admits he'd like to use his well-known no-nonsense interviewing skils on Donald Trump. 'I think because you really have got someone who doesn't know what is true and what isn't, what is real and what's not,' he says. 'Yes I'd like to interview him, but I'd also like to nail jelly to a wall. And if I did I'm sure I'd then get barred from the United States forevermore, and get a huge on air telling off.' The new series of Killer Britain, presented by Dermot Murnaghan starts Monday 12th May on the Crime + Investigation channel
