Local councillor Lynn Hammond is organising a vigil
on the anniversary of Damien Nettles' disappearance.
We are investigating whether Damien's disappearance
is linked to the Isle of Wight's drugs underworld.
THEY LAUGH
LYNN SIGHS
Lynn has spoken to sources within the island's drug dealing scene.
Six years ago, one gave her a dramatic account
of what happened to Damien.
Lynn's source has given her a location
where she was told Damien died.
One hell of a story
and one of many unsubstantiated accounts that have surfaced
over the years.
But when we trawled the thousands of e-mails passed to us
by Damien's family,
a core group of a dozen drug dealers crop up repeatedly.
We discover Lynn's source was very close to these dealers
and used to inform on them to the police.
We try to track him down.
THEY LAUGH
Finally, we find the address of Lynn's source.
But getting an ex-police informant to talk won't be easy.
The source is nervous.
He agrees to meet me at another location.
SHE LAUGHS
The source leads me to a wooded area.
The source tells me this information
came from someone close to the dealers involved.
Damien's body may well be somewhere in these woods.
The source says he's told the police everything.
But he's given us very little concrete information.
To understand why he's so nervous,
I track down some local ex-cops,
who worked the beat back in the '90s.
We also discover our source
was one of the top police informants in Hampshire.
I'm determined to get a lead out of him,
something to work with.
Eventually, he agrees to another meet -
off-camera, of course.
This time, we get our breakthrough.