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Vishal

Episode 8: The Fourth Man

Vishal

BBC Studios

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8529 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

A shocking discovery sends Colin halfway across the world – but will he find the answers?

Transcript

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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 contains strong language, and language some listeners may find offensive.

0:41.4

After the family meeting with Sussex Police in June 2021, everyone feels despondent. I'm not quite

0:49.3

sure what to do now that all the new information I've discovered has been so comprehensively rejected.

0:56.8

The police told the family and me that the links to the men who were abusing at the boarding school

1:03.0

in Sussex are not a viable line of inquiry.

1:07.2

Partly because they believe that these men groomed boys in their care.

1:11.6

They had no need to adopt a child from the street

1:15.6

and there is no information or intelligence that suggests otherwise.

1:20.6

That seems pretty difficult to argue with.

1:23.6

If the police are saying there's absolutely nothing to show that any of these men took

1:28.9

children they didn't know in their car so therefore they don't think they could be involved

1:34.0

in Vishal's disappearance. But as our team continue to research here, my series producer

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