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when Harry was dring cattle she would
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spend days and days in bed unable to
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speak the medication he was obtaining
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and applying to his wife was not
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designed to make her feel better but
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perhaps to make her feel lost Harry
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wrapped her body in a doy and put her
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under a gap in the
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floorboards Harry Jarvis was a totally
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unexceptional individual to look at he
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was very Brazen about the whole thing
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you put your lover up in the shed in the
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garden just outside the window your wife
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is Harry was determined to do what he
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did to get what he wanted out of it to
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do away with Carol and move on with Rita
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that was all that Harry cared about
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just that worry in the back of your mind
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of is he dad or is he Harry the Killer
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Carol Jarvis had been reported missing 2
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days before she was found
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dead initially the missing person's
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report had come in from Carol's children
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to say that they hadn't seen their mom
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um for some
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time and their father had said to them
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that she was away on resik here up in
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dunde when she disappeared he
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reaction was she's left the house she's
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gone
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away is just utterly bizarre because
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she'd been bad ban for a significant
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amount of
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time decided to form the police just to
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report a Miss
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person the police visited the house just
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to establish what what had went
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on a body was then
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discovered I remember hearing on the
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news that a body had been found in a
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house in Bathgate which was the area
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that my practice was based in West
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lodan I was interested to know what was
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going to happen with the people who have
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been charged with
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murder the police in Bathgate had
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discovered caros remains under the uh
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floorboards in the
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high there were clear signs there was a
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body that had become a deposition site
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thoughts very quickly from the police
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turned to there's only one suspect in
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this case and it's her
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husband there was a very tragic case but
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from the perspective of those working as
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lawyers in the case it was totally
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unique the background to the death of
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Harry Jarvis's wife
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was
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bizarre he was very Brazen about the
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whole
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thing Clover up in the shed in the
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garden just outside the window your wife
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is this looked like on the surface
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potentially quite a well planned
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murder but actually there were so many
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issues within Harry's plan for
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this you couldn't make it up I don't
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think he was particularly
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clever he had some degree of
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intelligence but he did a number of very
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foolish
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things whole setup at the house was
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bizarre Harry Jarvis and his wife Carol
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had four children Graham is the youngest
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son
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this one yes Mom and Dad always are very
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young dad looks really really young
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there mom's not wearing glasses or
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that's all right that must
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been one when they were growing up to
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but she looks
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happy Graham was told his father was
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probably her killer and he was nowhere
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to be seen if your spouse is just been
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found dead in the floor space in your
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house your natural reaction as a
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grieving spouse would be to stay to help
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the police with their inquiries to
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support the children to plan the funeral
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so the fact that he absconded and was
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nowhere to be seen would have
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immediately raised
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suspicions how can you see that somebody
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is going to do that unless if bu in an
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act or they've got a gun then you can't
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suspect that somebody's going to just
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hat your plan to kill somebody or do it
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SP of the moment you can't foresee that
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at
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all it's going to be really tough for
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anyone who loses a parent to something
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as violent as a
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murder but even more so when the person
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who took their life is their other
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parent there's going to be a real
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conflict there between Still Loving a
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parent as most people do and hating them
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for what they've done
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Harry Jarvis met his future wife Carol
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in the late 1970s when he was living in
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South London and working as a bus
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driver I believed in met just by Mom
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working in the the shoe shop and then
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just Dad asking her asking it out on a
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date mom was 18 dad was 30s or 12 year
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difference people might say that's a big
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gap but sometimes there's a connection
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or whatever it may be it might just be
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it by 1982 Carol and Harry Jarvis were
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married and the couple went on to have
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four children together I just thought M
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and dad were happy as a couple you know
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they AR gooded like any other couple
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would and you know money or life worries
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but for me yeah they were just a general
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normal happy Mom and Dad
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couple in the early 1990s the Jarvis
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family moved over 400 m away from London
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settling in the west loan town of
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Bathgate in
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Scotland I see done this house a lot of
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the childhood memories and friend and
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Neighbors
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and even to family gatherings that
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happened in in that
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house she would be the the first one up
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dancing or trying to cheer you up and
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yeah generally quite quite a bit doy and
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but really um sort of live Lively
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character when you wanted to
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be it was just a mom that was there for
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you her main sort of life was centered
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around the kids and you know the kids
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extra activities such as the brownies
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the
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guides on the off chance he did have a
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cup of tea with a friend that would be
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from a friends across the road the house
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or or next to her neighbor so generally
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just a very very quiet life centered
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around the four
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kids har was left to deal with the the
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DAT running of the house and the
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children and she had to see to
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everybody's needs because Harry was you
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know in and out of prison all the
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time probably about 97 98 maybe I
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remember visiting him in sockt so he was
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in jail then for whatever reason again I
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not sure what was if he was in prison
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mom had the kids and so it was left to
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to bring us
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up Harry was a petty criminal regularly
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committing low-level crimes such as
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deception minor fraud and
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shoplifting after the London buses dad
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never really had a permanent sort of
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career a permanent job to hold
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down he did try at times to hold down
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lawful
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employment and did try and become fairly
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decent
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person but it wasn't long before he
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would be enticed back in into breaking
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the law
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again anytime he was in prison or every
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time he done a disappear AC he came back
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it was just normal nothing
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changed there was never any talk about
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like sort of mom and dad splitting up
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or any changes or at all it would just
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went back to Everyday
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Life when Harry Jarvis was out of prison
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there were still times when he would go
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missing from the family home without
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warning that just did disappear you know
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right from when I was a young kid right
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up until you know the the last sort of
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days of of seeing him he would go
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anywhere from the local pub to ending up
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at his brothers down south to you know
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just no no explanation given at
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all for the family the difficulties
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occurred when Harry was out of of prison
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but would just then disappear for
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periods of time which would cause Carol
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real
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anxiety it just became the norm whereby
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it was like oh you know we used to come
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home and Dad wasn't there and then sort
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of mom would be are we bit
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upset that level of anxiety no matter
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how hard she tried to Shield her
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children from it would have been imp
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almost impossible because they would
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have picked up on mom's not okay and
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Dad's missing and that would have caused
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some level of uncertainty and
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instability within the family
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[Music]
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fold it was almost like Mom was fending
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for herself and looking after the four
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of us and that's when it kind of began
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to spiral out of
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control seeing their mom treated in that
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way would have had a massive impact on
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on them
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family children are supposed to be
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protected whereas they will have felt
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quite protective of their mother because
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of Harry's
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Behavior Dad could do a lot of stuff and
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they used to fight like C dog but I
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don't think anybody could ever turn and
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go my my dad's got it and him to kill
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somebody Bathgate in Scotland was the
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Jarvis's family home for 18 years
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bate used to be home where it grew up
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really so know the streets like the back
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in my
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hand basy is a very average Scottish
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town with a very close-nit
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Community most likely the locals would
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say nothing exit never happens
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here sometimes right by when in B gate
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just to drive by or just out the house
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just for a couple minutes just as a we
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sort of
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memory to M I'm still thinking about her
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and let me get on with my day and and
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life
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really he felt quite resentful that he
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had a wife and
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children he lived very much a Playboy
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lifestyle um but didn't really have the
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cash to do so so that's where you know
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he would fleece Carol and any other
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woman who had the misfortune to meet
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him Carol was aware that Harry had lots
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of other relationships outside of the
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marriage and I think she tolerated that
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because for her her Central narrative
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was to get him
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back Carol Jarvis had been battling ill
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health and soon after moving to Bathgate
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was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and
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muscle
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degeneration at that time Graham had
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just turned
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13 initially mom used to just be tired
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and fatigued and used to sort of stay in
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bed a little bit and used to sort of
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complain about having s muscles so
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that's my first memory of it being I
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feel in terms of not not being able to
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get out as bed as
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much as Carol's Health deteriorated
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further Harry Jarvis became his wife's
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carer I don't think Harry was a
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particularly caring individual would
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have relished the idea of having to care
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for Carol but actually he probably saw
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that as a bit of an excuse not to have a
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job not to have to go to work every day
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and he saw it as an opportunity for
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financial gain as well
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because he used her money that she got
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to support him with having a disability
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for his own gain going out to the PO B
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in he didn't think anything of just
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leaving Carol and the kids for weeks and
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weeks and weeks at a
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time he was somebody who liked things to
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go his way anybody who came into his
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sphere was used and manipulated by him
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Carol would take to bed particularly if
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she was having a depressive
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episode he would maybe play the
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attentive husband for a while but
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quickly got very bored of that he would
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do his usual Disappearing Acts for quite
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a long time come backwards and
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[Music]
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forwards cattle absolutely adored Harry
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he was able to read all his way back in
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and charm
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her looking back at it now I think to
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myself how did she manage to do that all
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you know I sort of got the the kids now
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and life's life's a struggle so and yeah
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Fair Point Fair Point M she was um one
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of our
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[Music]
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kind as they became adults
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Graham and his siblings each moved away
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from the family home I left when I was
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16 I went to stay with my friend through
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college and then
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uni obviously in ter time or at the
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weekends I used to go
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back so I was like sort of back and
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forth Harry Jarvis was now living alone
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in the house with his wife Carol har
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Jarvis was involved in procuring the
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medication for Carol Jarvis there were
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circumstances attached to that which
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would have indicated that he wasn't
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perhaps acting in her best
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interests there was an indication that
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the medication he was obtaining and
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applying to his wife was not designed to
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make her feel
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better but perhaps to make her feel
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worse every time I went around
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everything was Nor
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in terms of dad was there and mom was
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there there was nothing sort of f
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towards when Harry was dring Carle she
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would spend days and days in bed unable
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to speak she was very Dy she would sleep
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most of the time the children would pop
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in and out she was incapable of holding
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conversation and purely because Harry
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was drugging
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her when he used to disappear and then
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we used to try and sort of take over or
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help out the care between the siblings
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mom used to p cup and we noticed a a
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sort of difference when he wasn't there
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to when he was
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there the fact that she was up and down
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could have been put down to something
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like
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fibromyalgia rather than the direct
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correlation of her improving when Harry
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was away versus worsening when he was
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around
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conversations between me and the sister
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or
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brothers was almost like oh like you
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know why is it that you know when when
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Dad's away then like she's up and about
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and not even questioning it just sort of
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like oh wow mom's mom's actually up
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she's doing
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stuff people who use poison or drugs to
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subdue a person for their own gain or to
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ultimately murder somebody as Harry did
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they're very weak individuals it's
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something that can be done
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quietly almost with minimal force and
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effort drugging somebody makes them
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easier to look
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after I feel like you never thought or
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wait a minute here like eventually
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that's going to kill her and that's
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that's a tough one
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on September 11th 2009 Graham
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unexpectedly bumped into his dad Harry
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in Bathgate Town Center the Friday I
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seen him at the market he looked a bit
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Dazed and Confused as for a couple of
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pound
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um never thought anything of it I
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actually asked him like where's mom and
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you said she's in the house
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sleeping gram noticed a woman trailing
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behind Harry unbeknownst to him this was
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his father's latest lover I didn't link
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the two of them together but for
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whatever reason that memory still comes
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back to me like how do I how did I
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remember like a to stranger to of behind
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dad like was she that close to
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him Graham told his eldest brother Kevin
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about their dad's strange Behavior at
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the market so Kevin headed to the family
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home to check on his
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parents his mom was nowhere to be seen
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and Harry was being evasive about her
00:20:04
whereabouts this was so out of the
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ordinary that Carol would disappear
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without telling her children where she
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was
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[Music]
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going just wanted to to find out where
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Mom was you know in terms
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of um making sure she was all right and
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yeah just something didn't add
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up the children of Harry and Carl Jarvis
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came to the house
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and Harry Jarvis seemed to do all he
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could to prevent them entering the
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house it was complete manipulation by
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Hari
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Jarvis just to keep them out of his
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way he gave us some story about he was
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moving to dund with Mom and she was up
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in
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dunde Graham decided to call the
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police the police turned up to the
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house to see if they could establish
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Carol's
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whereabout when police entered the
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property they found a woman in Carol's
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bed who was not Carol despite what she
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was
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claiming now fortunately one of the
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officers had previously met Carol so
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realized that this was not Carol Jarvis
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it would have been at that point where
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there's a strange woman in the bed Carol
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is missing this is really going to raise
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alarm balls for Polie the mystery person
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under the
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bed was a woman called Rita
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haser it become AAR that there was this
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person called
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rer we had never really experienced R
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before and there was still no sign of
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Carol Jarvis
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the police you know said to us that you
00:22:01
know that Mom was an adult and there's
00:22:03
nothing they could do for 24
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hours I had no idea what was
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coming the police in Bathgate had
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discovered car's remains under the uh
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[Music]
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floorboards Carol Jarvis had been
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reported
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missing outside the the Jarvis family
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home Rita hter had been revealed as the
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mystery woman found in the
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house there was another person in the
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house that Dad had claimed to be
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mom on the night we had no idea as who
00:22:46
she would be when Graham saw the woman
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he immediately recognized her she was
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the woman he'd seen with his dad just
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before Carol's disappearance
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he was in the
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market I remember her trailing behind
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him for some bizarre reason had a
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suitcase and again I didn't link the two
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of them together but for whatever reason
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that memory still comes back to
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me Harry met rer hter in 2008 on the
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internet and uh immediately hit it off
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and of course when R told him who her
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family
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was very well known very famous very
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wealthy
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Bakers he immediately decided that she
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was going to be his next partner purely
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for uh financial gain we're talking
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millions of pounds that's the big
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attraction for
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Harry reers
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money he's a very manipulative
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individual he was a
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liar and he I think showed narcissistic
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Tendencies he cared
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about nobody else really other than
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Harry
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Jarvis Rita was an ays and a lot is made
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about the fact that she was in this
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position but financially she was
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actually in quite a dire situation she'd
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lost her house um she'd squandered her
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Fortune so it's almost like he's the
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protector in this role and Carol's the
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enemy that needs to be removed so him
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and R can be together and he can save
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her you've got Harry at the center of
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this family
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picture with everyone else orbiting
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around him almost like objects in his
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game and he's moving the pieces
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absolutely horrendous
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[Music]
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initially the missing person's report
00:25:07
had come in from car's children to say
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that they hadn't seen their mom for some
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time you're probably just thinking
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where's mom you know as he as he left
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her somewhere or in a hotel or or they
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sent her to the shops and I'm not not
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too sure but yeah yeah you don't think
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off the the worst case
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scenario police said that they would
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conduct a further search to try and
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assertain uh where Carol dvis was after
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24 hours Carol was still missing police
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return to the Jarvis's
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house Harry and Rita Haster were no
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longer
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there they said I we'll go around to the
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house to see if she's got a bus pass or
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purse or bag um if they've any like
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recent photos of her so they can log
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it the police did discover something
00:26:12
unusual in the garden
00:26:15
shed Rita hter had been living in the
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shed so you've got a mislim woman who
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was very unwell you've got a missing
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husband who has just appeared and then
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they found someone's actually been
00:26:31
living in the shed this is a very very
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absurd
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situation are the conditions there dirty
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grubby
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basic for anyone to live in those
00:26:45
squalid conditions was a great surprise
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to
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me the shed in the garden was a very
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basic 6x6 garden
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shed there was a tiny window in
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and R lived in the garden in the shed
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which basically just had a single
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mattress and a
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blanket no toilet facilities existed
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there were
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improvised facilities in the form of a
00:27:16
bucket
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and that was about
00:27:21
it the shed was right outside the
00:27:24
windows of the house it wasn't far away
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only a matter of feet
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and really the
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shed was so close to the house that it
00:27:34
surprised me that that's exactly what it
00:27:39
was Harry may have been incredibly good
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at
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finding victims who were susceptible to
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his
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charms you can see that with the
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relationship with Rita you know
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persuading her to live in the
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shed if you find find the right target a
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person can be very Charmed and
00:28:03
hopeful we didn't really know anything
00:28:06
about it until the Monday night it was
00:28:08
almost like this this R
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woman the lover that was hiding in the
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shed
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Biz I have no reason to believe that she
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was there under any Jess
00:28:30
I do think she was there from the
00:28:33
evidence under the
00:28:36
manipulative aspects of Harry Jarvis's
00:28:39
character and he persuaded her to to go
00:28:41
there I'm not saying that was against
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her will but I'm sure that this was his
00:28:48
initiative and that this is what he
00:28:50
wanted
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Rita's residence in the shed was
00:29:01
unfortunately not the only Discovery the
00:29:03
police made at the Jarvis
00:29:08
house when the police came around they
00:29:11
said look listen you know we we found I
00:29:14
found a body in the house and um yeah we
00:29:19
knew that that would be
00:29:22
mom if you're looking for a person and
00:29:24
they find the body a good chance it's
00:29:26
not going to be some else
00:29:31
up what had been a missing person case
00:29:35
was now a homicide
00:29:38
investigation Harry was determined to do
00:29:41
what he did to get what he wanted out of
00:29:43
it which was to do away with Carol and
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move on with
00:29:48
Rita that was all that Harry cared
00:29:52
about for Graham what he's caring about
00:29:54
is a lot bigger
00:29:58
just like just got
00:30:02
rening You' you've almost prepared for
00:30:04
yourself for two days that you know
00:30:06
something bad's happened
00:30:08
and you're kind of stopping yourself
00:30:12
from thinking the
00:30:21
wor nobody knows exactly when Carol
00:30:24
Daris died but sometime between sep
00:30:27
nember 11th and September the 15th
00:30:31
2009 the police in
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Bathgate had discovered car's remains
00:30:37
under the uh floorboards in the
00:30:40
KN apparently the children used to play
00:30:43
in that exact
00:30:46
spot there was two basement the real one
00:30:50
in the living room is where they
00:30:53
founder we used to go down there as kids
00:30:55
and quite like hide and seek I used to
00:30:58
have a mini kid snooker table down there
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and
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stuff hearing that from the police again
00:31:07
just makes you
00:31:09
sick was just
00:31:12
horrific just horrendous man like I was
00:31:19
sick harrie was so blinded by his
00:31:22
obsession with Rita he just wasn't
00:31:23
thinking about consequences or next
00:31:26
steps he wanted to be with Rita he saw
00:31:29
that Carol was in the way of
00:31:32
that therefore removed Carol and he's
00:31:36
free to be with
00:31:38
r that's probably about as sophisticated
00:31:41
as it
00:31:42
got Carol's husband Harry Jarvis had
00:31:46
last been seen in the house the day
00:31:48
before with Rita
00:31:51
hter police needed to find the couple
00:31:54
urgently
00:32:00
I'd got a text message from a police
00:32:02
contact who said that there had been a
00:32:06
body found in a house in
00:32:09
Bathgate it became very apparent very
00:32:13
quickly that they had a suspect close to
00:32:16
home for
00:32:18
this the police basically said to us
00:32:20
listen we trying to find a dad we don't
00:32:23
know where he
00:32:25
is just that sort of worry
00:32:29
in the back of your mind of to wait a
00:32:31
minute here like is he is he dad or is
00:32:35
he har the
00:32:37
killer I can't believe that he
00:32:41
could have been a killer or was a killer
00:32:45
and still sit here in disbelief that
00:32:49
that that
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happened Harry and Rita were on the Run
00:32:59
with Carol found dead in the basement
00:33:02
and evidence that Rita had been living
00:33:04
in the shed for some
00:33:05
time they were both now Prime suspects
00:33:08
for Carol's
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murder Harry and R spent the night in a
00:33:16
B&B and the next morning they
00:33:19
disappeared without
00:33:20
paying the owners of the B&B phoned the
00:33:23
police and gave a description of the
00:33:26
people that had uh just left without
00:33:29
paying police Tracked Down the couple
00:33:31
the day after Carol's body was
00:33:33
discovered arresting them as they got
00:33:36
off a bus in
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Edinburgh both were charged with murder
00:33:41
they released him on Bale and they were
00:33:44
still the court process to go
00:33:46
through it was almost like you he was
00:33:49
still dead and I think the four of us
00:33:52
spoke and was like we're just going to
00:33:54
need to try and help him somehow
00:33:58
giving him like sort of a jacket or
00:34:00
money to go and and stay somewhere you
00:34:03
didn't think it was
00:34:07
possible it was almost that
00:34:10
moral compass of like mom would want us
00:34:13
to help him
00:34:16
out I can sense that kind of tension
00:34:19
that struggle between my dad and this
00:34:23
murderer and I think that tension is
00:34:26
always present for for for Graham he
00:34:29
works really hard to find a way to deal
00:34:32
with that internal conflict which at
00:34:34
times can be very difficult for
00:34:42
him as the details of the case started
00:34:45
to emerge and the horror in which Carol
00:34:48
had died and the circumstances under
00:34:50
which she had
00:34:52
died people couldn't believe it you know
00:34:54
how could this happen right under their
00:34:56
noses after police had found Carol's
00:34:59
body love letters that Harry Jarvis had
00:35:02
sent to Rita were discovered in the
00:35:06
house Harry shows that he had every
00:35:08
intention of killing Carol because of
00:35:11
the content of the letters that he sent
00:35:13
Rita that in and of itself is very
00:35:18
juvenile one said the drugs are doing
00:35:22
the job just took longer than I thought
00:35:25
but going fast now
00:35:28
another claimed Carol is dying as I
00:35:31
write then we have the house to
00:35:32
ourselves and sell all in it to move on
00:35:36
dangerous times but we will get
00:35:40
there we can see Harry's intention with
00:35:43
the letters that he was writing to
00:35:46
Rita there is definitely premeditated
00:35:49
Behavior at play here so this wasn't a
00:35:53
crime of passion this was a crime of
00:35:55
planning
00:36:01
Harry's trial began on January 31st
00:36:09
2011 he pleaded not guilty and the true
00:36:13
horrors of the crime played out in
00:36:17
court there was no established cause of
00:36:19
death but the circumstances pointed to
00:36:24
Harry having a major involvement in the
00:36:26
deterioration of her
00:36:28
health creating a set of
00:36:32
circumstances with the administration of
00:36:34
medication or maladministration of
00:36:37
medication which contributed to
00:36:40
that Harry was already drugging
00:36:43
Carol he anticipated that he would be
00:36:47
able to uh get rid of her fairly
00:36:50
quickly after Carol passed away Harry
00:36:54
wrapped her body in a Duvy and and put
00:36:58
her under um a gap in the
00:37:04
floorboard and he told the police that
00:37:06
he'd put Carol there to keep her close
00:37:08
to him and me he tried to claim that
00:37:11
Carol had died from natural
00:37:14
causes hiding her in the way that he did
00:37:17
and saying she died in natural
00:37:19
causes just shows a real lack of
00:37:24
remorse car was identified through d DNA
00:37:27
from her fingertips because there had
00:37:29
been such a decomposition of the
00:37:32
body the postmortem could not show any
00:37:36
cause of death and how Harry did
00:37:42
it har Jarvis wrote notes which were
00:37:45
producing evidence and the prosecution
00:37:48
relies on those notes they were crucial
00:37:51
to the prosecution case to show some
00:37:54
degree of evil intent on his part and
00:37:57
some intention to act to the detriment
00:38:00
of his wife's health and as the
00:38:02
prosecution argued his intention was to
00:38:05
kill
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her the jury concluded that all the
00:38:16
evidence was such that a clear inference
00:38:19
could be drawn Beyond reasonable doubt
00:38:22
that Harry was responsible for her death
00:38:29
Harry Jarvis was eventually convicted of
00:38:31
murder and sentenced to life
00:38:36
imprisonment even after the verdict
00:38:40
Harry remained silent about the
00:38:44
murder we'll never know as what happened
00:38:48
what made him do it or how he done it if
00:38:52
he stabbed her or shot her then that's
00:38:55
like clean cut but it was never Cas of
00:38:59
it was clean cut as to what had
00:39:04
happened Graham as an adult has to come
00:39:08
to terms with his father murdered his
00:39:11
mother and buried her body in the house
00:39:15
that his father had a mistress living in
00:39:20
the shed and had planned to get rid of
00:39:23
Carol and run off with
00:39:26
Rita that his father was basically a
00:39:29
criminal hidden in plain sight and this
00:39:33
is the person you call
00:39:36
Dad this would be mindblowing for Graham
00:39:40
to wrap his head around all these
00:39:43
multiple narratives about this one man
00:39:46
this is my dad I loved him as a child
00:39:49
and these are the things that he did as
00:39:53
a result of his
00:39:54
behavior Peter hter instructed
00:39:57
a member of my firm who constructed me
00:40:01
as solicor Advocate to defend her for
00:40:03
the charge of
00:40:04
murder 5 months later on June 15th Rita
00:40:09
Haster stood trial at Edinburgh High
00:40:11
Court charged with murder and attempting
00:40:14
to defeat the ends of
00:40:17
Justice DNA identified as being that of
00:40:21
Rita hter was found at the edge of the
00:40:24
trap door leading down to the sell area
00:40:28
below the living room where the body of
00:40:30
Carl Jarvis had found that doesn't
00:40:33
necessarily mean that R hter was there
00:40:36
but it did link her physically to the
00:40:39
premises and to the vicinity where the
00:40:42
body was
00:40:44
found by the finding of a DNA in the
00:40:47
house together with all the other
00:40:49
circumstances led the jury to convict
00:40:52
her of the charge of attempting to
00:40:53
defeat the ends of
00:40:55
justice and she was sentenced to 4 and
00:40:58
1/2 years imprisonment for that but of
00:41:01
course the murder charge did not apply
00:41:04
to
00:41:06
her in
00:41:09
2017 6 years into his life sentence
00:41:13
67-year-old Harry Jarvis died in prison
00:41:16
of heart
00:41:20
failure Graeme and his siblings would
00:41:23
have felt this huge loss with their
00:41:25
mother but also with their
00:41:28
father so there will be lots of complex
00:41:31
feelings here and and trying to figure
00:41:34
out that relationship and where it
00:41:36
stands after that point Harry dying in
00:41:39
prison might not have brought closure to
00:41:40
his family because he didn't serve much
00:41:43
of his
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sentence because you've lost both of
00:41:56
them you're not really angry you're more
00:41:58
sad at the
00:41:59
overall
00:42:02
situation all did get on top of me and
00:42:04
then I done some mental health therapy
00:42:08
stuff C CBT and that
00:42:11
um which which which
00:42:17
helped still have you know I still have
00:42:21
the old Nightmare and that about the the
00:42:24
basement in the floor and
00:42:27
don't no better we get rid of it at
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all life goes on eh
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