Listen to killer driver’s calm 999 call just hours after he brutally murdered two men with truck

Alex Rose made the call just hours after he had mowed down two innocent men with his Ford Raptor truck

19:29, 22 Sep 2025

This is the shocking moment a killer driver calmly called 999 to falsely report his truck, which he had used to murder two men just hours before, as stolen.

Alex Rose, 30, was detained at Birmingham Airport[1] on July 23 last year - the day after he had mowed down two innocent men riding an e-bike in Sunbury Cross, Surrey.

Rose had ploughed into the young victims with his Ford Raptor pick-up truck after he wrongly thought they had been trying to burgle his home.

The victims, 21-year-old William Birchard and 22-year-old Darren George, died from their catastrophic injuries.

Killer Rose later rang police to falsely report his truck as stolen - knowing full well that he had used the vehicle to brutally murder the pair just hours before.

In the call, he calmly tells the 999 operator: "I need to report a theft of a vehicle. I came back, parked the vehicle up, and then I woke up this morning and I left early doors and then, it was early this morning, but I didn't think to look, I was in a rush.

"I came back and realised it's not there."

The operator then asked Rose if the keys were stolen and the killer replies: "Yeah. I haven't looked for my spare set but I know that the ones that I had are not there.

They were left on the table. Inside yeah."

Rose was then quizzed on whether it was a home burglary.

"Well...they've taken the car...I don't know what it comes under," he said. "The keys were in the house. I haven't solidly looked everywhere but from where I know I left them, they're definitely not there.

And no one in the house would have touched them."

The operator then said she would send officers to his house after Rose lied about getting home at around 9.45pm the night before.

Rose, jailed today for murdering the two men[3], had previously been a victim of burglary at his business premises.

Shortly before the fatal crash, Rose saw people moving around the grounds of a college which backed onto his home and he believed they were a group of burglars.

Rose called Charles Pardoe, 25, and the pair drove around in his car for over an hour searching for the group.

During the search Rose was in contact with his girlfriend, Tara Knaggs, who remained at home.

It was nearly 1am when Mr Birchard and Mr George's paths crossed with Rose as they rode into Sunbury on a Talaria Sting e-bike.

Investigators said Rose mistook them for being part of the group he had been searching for and pursued the e-bike along Green Street to the Sunbury Cross roundabout, exceeding speeds of 60mph in a 30mph zone.

In their efforts to get away, the victims drove the wrong way around the Sunbury Cross roundabout and onto the slip road travelling the wrong way towards the A316 and M3.

Rose and Pardoe followed them in the Raptor, also travelling the wrong way, and collided with the bike, before fleeing the scene.

Mr Birchard was killed instantly on the roadside whilst Mr George died later the same day in hospital.

Detectives managed to track the killer down at BHX on July 23 - just before he was about to board a one-way flight to Turkey's biggest city with his girlfriend Tara Knaggs.

They had booked the flight just hours before and the lovers only had one carry-on bag between them.

Inside were items of clothing and more than GBP4,000 in cash.

Rose, of Sunbury-upon-Thames, was found guilty of two counts of murder following a four-week trial at Guildford Crown Court.

Pardoe, of Feltham, was also found guilty of two counts of murder.

Knaggs, of Great Ayton in Yorkshire, was found guilty of assisting an offender.

Today, September 22, Rose was sentenced to life behind bars and told he will serve a minimum of 34 years.

He will also serve 21 months concurrently for perverting the course of justice.

Pardoe was sentenced to life imprisonment and told he will serve a minimum of 29 years.

Knaggs was sentenced to three years behind bars where she will serve a minimum of one year and two months prior to being considered for licence.

Each of the defendants had their sentences marginally reduced to account for time already spent in custody prior to trial.

Detective Inspector Debbie Birch of Surrey and Sussex Police Major Crime Team said: "My thoughts and sympathies remain, as always, with the family and friends of William Birchard and Darren George.

"Today's outcome will not change the fact that William and Darren's lives were cut so unfairly short, but I hope that their loved ones will take some small comfort from seeing justice served."

References

1. ^ Birmingham Airport (www.birminghammail.co.uk)
2. ^ Killer driver who booked one-way ticket from Birmingham Airport jailed after mowing down lads (www.birminghammail.co.uk)
3. ^ jailed today for murdering the two men (www.birminghammail.co.uk)