Episode 10: Fresh Leads
Vishal
BBC Studios
4.8 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We focus on the part of the internet that most people don't know about. |
| 0:05.0 | It's called the dark web. |
| 0:06.0 | Undercover in the furthest corners of the dark web, |
| 0:10.0 | US special agents are on a mission to locate and rescue children from abuse. |
| 0:16.0 | Move in now. |
| 0:17.0 | Police! |
| 0:18.0 | From the BBC World Service, World of Secrets, |
| 0:21.1 | the darkest web follows their shocking investigations. |
| 0:24.8 | Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get to your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:30.1 | Before we begin, this episode refers to child sexual abuse. |
| 0:34.3 | It also contains strong language. |
| 0:38.9 | For 40 years, a little boy called Vishal Marotra, who was abducted and murdered in |
| 0:44.4 | 1981, had largely been forgotten, except by his family and those who knew and loved him. |
| 0:52.2 | I was told by the police that they had found the remains, and I broke down completely. |
| 0:59.6 | They turned on the TV, and there it was, it was on the news. |
| 1:02.8 | And that's how I learned that my brother was dead. |
| 1:05.9 | Our investigations raised questions about a group of paedophiles based around a school in Sussex, close to where |
| 1:12.6 | Vishal's body was found. One of the men had a document in his possession that he'd named |
| 1:18.0 | Vishal but couldn't explain why. Sussex police knew about these men, but barely investigated |
| 1:24.9 | them. My personal view on this was that this little boy deserve better |
| 1:31.7 | than just knocking on someone's door and basically saying, |
| 1:35.8 | here, mate, did you murder someone back in the 80s? |
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