“I wasn’t interested.”Īfter officers arranged for him to have swabs taken later that evening, to collect evidence, he was told he could not wash. I wanted to shower but they said no.”Īll three of them were interviewed by police, who then drove Sam to the place where he remembered seeing car park arches, after leaving the hotel - hoping to pinpoint the location of the crime.
“It was only the thought of my family, that it would have destroyed them, that I thought, I can’t do it to them.”īack home, he broke down as he told Brady and his then girlfriend-of-18-months, who does not want to be named, what had happened. He recalled: “I took some cash out to pay my rent.
Left with internal cuts and bruises, Sam remembers staggering home, in a daze. Sam with his friend Brady, who was with him on the night out before the pair got separated.
