Mick is a former policeman who specialises in searching for bodies.
Damien Nettles was buried in these woods 20 years ago,
according to a former dealer close to Nicky McNamara,
the chief suspect in this unsolved mystery.
Though the source has no first-hand evidence for this,
Damien's family and friends have been digging for his body here
for five years.
This is the first time a cadaver dog has been used.
Yeah.
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Yeah, let's do it.
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'Paula and Kayleigh are friends of the Nettles family.'
'Though they've dug several feet, there's no sign of a body.'
Well, I'm sure you've had false alarms before.
The police say they have carried out over 40 searches in relation
to Damien's case,
but they do not believe there is credible evidence for looking here.
Not in a town the size of Cowes they don't.
It would have been a big event.
'We've been on the Isle of Wight investigating Damien's
'disappearance for three months.
'As we prepare to leave,
'the dealer who brought us to these woods offers us one final lead.
'He tells us he saw Nicky McNamara and some associates putting
'a large sail-bag into a car not long after Damien disappeared.
'Our source believes Damien's corpse was inside the bag.
'He remembers clearly the house they carried it out of.'
This is 18 Fellows Road.
This is where we've been told they took Damien's body after
he was killed, and kept him here for up to three weeks.
This is the same house that was notorious as a drug den in 1996,
and two of the names always associated with Damien's death -
Nicky McNamara and Bunny Isles - used to live here.
There's a direct connection between these two,
cos they were brothers in arms for years.
If anybody's going to know what Nicky McNamara did, it's him.
They were partners in crime.
Our source, The Weatherman, also claims
Bunny Isles was with Nicky McNamara the night Damien disappeared,
in the very place Damien was last seen.
Back then, Bunny Isles was one of the biggest dealers on the island.
He has over 30 criminal convictions.
When we track him down,
he makes an astonishing offer.
I mean, for him to agree to that...
I do think, as you suggest, that he will do an interview.
If she'll meet him, this is going to be a big thing for her.
He said he wanted to meet you.
We do know now that we can't stand up for anything he's going
to tell us...
There is no evidence Bunny Isles killed Damien,
but he has been linked to his disappearance for years.
Iles was the chief suspect Nicky McNamara's closest ally.
Now he's going to talk publicly about Damien for the first time.
It feels like the last chance, for both us and the Nettles family.
Did you and Nicky tell each other pretty much everything?
Like, yous were as close as brothers, were yous?
How many times have the cops talked to you, questioned you, over Damien?
And yous came and had it all sewn up?
How much would you have come into contact with people, younger guys?
What age were you back then? Damien was 16. It's 1996.
Was that what you expected, Val?
But has Bunny Isles told Valerie the whole truth?
Chris Boone was Damien's best friend when he disappeared,
and when Bunny Isles was dealing from Fellows Road.
Would there had been a time that you and Damien went to Fellows Road...?
I can quite clearly say that Damien has been in contact, can't I,
with Bunny Isles?
Do you remember the first time I talked to you?
We started to talk about the drugs thing.
You got really anxious, I don't know if you realised it.
You really were very anxious and your body language was like,
"I need to get out of here, I need to get away from you."
There's been a long journey since that, obviously,
and you've come to know us.
Is it a bit easier now to tell us the truth of it?
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