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janae and andrew parsons beautiful
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ambitious the perfect couple
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she always seemed very happy with andrew
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and he seemed to adore her until their
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marriage begins to fall apart
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she was telling her friends
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on the telephone how weak he was
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how docile he was weak and docile may be
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but not when he faces rejection
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it's like outrage and humiliation all
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mixed together in one big
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angry ball
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were those ingredients enough to
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convince a jury that andrew parsons had
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not been guilty of the murder of his
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wife
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or would an extraordinary piece of
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evidence condemn him
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what he had forgotten
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was that it was going to record what
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happened between them
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meeting in oklahoma in 2002 andrew
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parsons and janae brady instantly hit it
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off
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andrew um
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met jeannie when he went to the united
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states to coach football
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a chance meeting between andrew and
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janey leads to a very quick whirlwind
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romance
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andrew was working in the small town of
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yukon on the eastern edge of oklahoma
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city janae also known as janie was a
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student at the city's university for
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englishman andrew parsons janie was the
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compensation that he needed after a
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string of disappointments he was
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somebody who was very keen to make it in
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the football world and when it didn't
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work for him here well he took that
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talent and took it over to america and
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hope it would work over there
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unfortunately for him it didn't
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accepting his dream of making it big as
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a footballer was over 28 year old andro
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was coaching kids soccer in the yukon
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while seeking a long-term career plan he
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became qualified in the plumbing
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industry as a plumbing engineer
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and
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that's where he started building his
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business and while he was building that
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business over in america that's when he
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met janie
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the 21 year old oaky native and the
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older brit quickly fell for one another
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janae was such a warm happy person
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inside and out she was just genuinely
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kind happy enthusiastic and seemed to
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just love life she had lots of plans of
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things that she wanted to do with her
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life she was
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gorgeous new boyfriend's personality
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couldn't have been more different from
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her own andrew was one paced
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he was mr nice guy
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he was dependable
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quiet
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david hislop would one day become a
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trusted confidant of andrew parsons he
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was known as being docile gentle
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good-natured
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a likable chap very early on in their
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relationship the couple spent time in
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the uk so that janie could pursue a
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dream of her own
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i first met janae in 2002 when she
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enrolled to do one of our advanced
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beauty therapy courses
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heidi sylvester is the director of the
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oxford international college of beauty
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in oxfordshire england so she came to
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have a look around the college and loved
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it and then she came signed up to our
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full-time international beauty course
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janie instantly earned a glowing
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reputation at college
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janae was an excellent student because
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she had really fantastic customer skills
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she was so friendly and welcoming and
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she was excellent at actually performing
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aesthetic treatments she picked things
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up very quickly and she was also very
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smart so she did very well in her theory
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exams so she did pass her course with
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flying colors
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they'd been together just a few months
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but andrew parsons was keen to support
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janie brady's and missions
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he was her rock
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absolute rock
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when janae started the course with us
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she was living locally with her
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boyfriend and his family she commuted
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into college each day it's something
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that she was passionate about
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qualifications under her belt it was
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time for janie and andrew to take the
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next step in their relationship
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after janae graduated um i believe they
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went back to america in 2004 they
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married in las vegas
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a glamorous start to life as mr and mrs
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parsons they settled in oklahoma where
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janie set out to turn her passion and
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skills into a successful business
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she opened up a sponge she called it the
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oxford spa after her college and she had
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a fantastic business and her and andrew
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were both very proactive in running the
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business
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at first janie's business was a success
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and as a couple she and andrew seemed to
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be in perfect harmony
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andrew and janae did support our work
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experience scheme where we send students
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to
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gain two weeks of work experience in a
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spa and so we had our students go over
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to oklahoma and do their work placements
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with janae and the oxford spa the couple
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had two children together both boys her
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career was important to her but so was
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her family so she really did work well
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to get a good balance between looking
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after her young children and following
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her passions and
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really did manage to get a great career
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alongside being a great mother now they
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moved into a really normal happy family
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life the boys were active they were
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sporty they were doing martial arts and
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rugby and it seemed like they were the
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perfect married couple andrew was very
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supportive with her running her own
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business and also having young children
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at the time
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for almost six years the parsons
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appeared to be living in wedded bliss
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janae
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had a lovely life and i'm sure she was
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very happy she had a very close
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relationship with andrew and her own
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children looking in i think you would
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certainly think that they were the
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perfect family he
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really enjoyed taking his children out
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and playing football with them taking
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them to watch games and he was a very
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good father but in 2009 the first signs
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of stress and tension began to creep
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into their life
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janie's beloved business was failing
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she's put everything into it and it gets
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into financial difficulty so she decides
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to sell it it was a devastating blow for
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janie but her husband as always was by
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her side
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for a long time
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andrew had been janie's rock
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and
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when her business failed he was always
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there
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he picked the pieces up he built up a
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confidence he was forever praising her
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in 2010 andrew suggested a fresh start
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for the family
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jenny was happy to agree they thought
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they would come back to the united
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kingdom
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they thought it was a better life for
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their boys
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in the united kingdom janie was full of
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enthusiasm for their new life when she
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came back to the uk she came in to see
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us she was very happy very optimistic
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about starting up her business in the uk
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and seemed to be you know very happy at
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that time
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in may 2010 the family settled in
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andrew's hometown of bista renting a
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three-bedroom home on a modern estate
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the historic market town surrendered by
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rolling green hills was a million miles
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from the skyscrapers in the urban buzz
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of oklahoma city
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it was clear that janae was very happy
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to be back in the uk and was raising her
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family locally
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six years into their marriage janie and
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andrew parsons were making a new life in
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oxfordshire england
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but would it be the perfect dream they
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were hoping for
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instead of being his rock
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cheney decided to move on
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mr and mrs parsons both had big plans
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for making a living in the uk
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she was moving into more medical
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aesthetics when she came back to the uk
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it's where you specialize more in facial
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treatments that may involve things like
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injectables
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any fillers and also chemical peels and
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more of the advanced
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treatments that help with
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keeping people to look younger and
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natural beauty
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andrew started his own business in the
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plumbing industry parsons was more of a
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job man really a jobbing builder
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plumber
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those early months living in oxfordshire
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became a tense time for the couple
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so they had this lovely family that they
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had managed to build they had
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potential domestic bliss but both of
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these people
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were driven by the need to succeed both
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of them pumped every resource every
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penny they had in to trying to make
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these businesses work
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both janie and andrew put in their all
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but it was janie's beauty business that
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thrived and she was getting stronger and
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stronger
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and sadly at that time
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um andrew who was a pump engineer
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um
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his business started to fail it
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started to fail through no real fault of
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his own
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it was
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the recession at the time
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and his specialist area was swimming
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balls well there wasn't too much call
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for
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a pump engineer during those times he
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was doing a bit of plumbing here and a
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bit of building there but i
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again they got into financial
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difficulties the parsons relationship
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began to crumble under the strain of
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multitasking and business startups it
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could be
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that that was the start of the the
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problems in their marriage but it's
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probably more likely that there were big
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personality differences in in these two
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people and the financial difficulties
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was more like a straw that broke the
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camel's back
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she was a driven go-getter
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good mum brilliant businesswoman she was
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very very
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out there in a sort of perhaps an
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american way but that's because she was
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american but that was how she was in
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contrast i think parsons was
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seen as a little bit of a
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a lazy man who didn't really didn't have
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a huge amount of ambition
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and didn't really seem in comparison to
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jamie especially have a huge amount of
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energy
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she told him to get his act together he
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would come home from work and instead of
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doing anything sit on the sofa and watch
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telly rather than help whereas she would
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run the household run a business
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and look after her two little boys
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for months tensions built in the parsons
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household by the autumn of 2012 their
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relationship was at an all-time low
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janie seemed to be
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desperately unhappy
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they had children there were constant
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worries and problems i don't think that
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they got on particularly well
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and i think janie was very frustrated
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there came a time when she realized that
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the marriage was failing
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in october 2012 janie told andrew that
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she wanted a separation
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his reaction she told her friends was
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unnervingly calm
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the response of andrew was
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okay if that's what's happening
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but
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let's stay in the same house let's stay
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under the same roof so they were going
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to stay together till christmas get
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christmas out of the way for the boys
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and then go their separate ways she
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thought reasonably amicably parsons
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talks her into staying
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living with him and the children all
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together as a family for the whole of
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december to cover the christmas period
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for the children
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but it's far more likely that what he
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was doing was using that to buy himself
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some time to try and
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change what was happening
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dr moncton smith thinks andrew had an
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ulterior motive in persuading jaini to
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stay
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mentally at this stage parsons is
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probably panicking
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thinking
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how can i get this all back together how
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can i pull this
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back
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what what can i do what's worked in the
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past
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what can i try how do i get her back on
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side it's probably where his head was
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in fact from october 2012 onwards andrew
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showed a sudden escalation of paranoid
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controlling behavior he started to be
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quite
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cunning and clandestine
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about the way that he was handling this
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so what i mean by that is he started
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stalking
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janie and that
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that's quite a dangerous behavior
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he took her laptop or ipad off her and
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wanted to have a look through it he took
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her phone and wanted to have a look
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through that
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miranda moore has developed a detailed
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picture of the deterioration of the
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parsons marriage in the autumn of 2012.
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he was convinced at the start that there
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was somebody else towards the middle of
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november janie had a confession for
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andrew his fears had in fact been
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realized there was somebody else janae
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had fallen for somebody she'd met called
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daniel
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jenny told
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andrew about daniel
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she didn't
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tell
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him everything about daniel she
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certainly didn't tell him about her
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depths of feeling and plans in relation
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to daniel
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she wanted to spend the rest of her life
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with him but
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she was a realist and realized that
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she'd have to do this carefully because
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she had two little boys daniel was a
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belgian businessman a divorcee with a
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family of his own he and janie had met
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in a bar they'd known each other just a
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few weeks but it confirmed in her mind
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that she no longer saw a future with
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andrew she informed andrew that the
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marriage was coming to an end there was
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a future with somebody else she was
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going to pursue it their marriage was
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over she wanted to get out and best she
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wanted to go to london
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she had moved on she wanted to go to the
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next milestone in her life and that
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didn't include
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andrew
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this time andrew's reaction was much
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more extreme
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as soon as she told him that she wanted
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a divorce he entered the bank account
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there is a violent confrontation at the
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house that she tells a friend about
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whereby he drags her out of the bed he
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pulled her out out of bed by her hair
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and pulled her downstairs and talked for
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hours with her not letting her go
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she was his jenae she told him she
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wanted to leave she was quite
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upfront she didn't try and hide it she
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was
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honest if you like
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and
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i think he was
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shocked
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he was shocked that this was happening
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he was probably panic-stricken that this
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was happening i don't think he wanted
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this family unit to break down
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at all
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had in this moment andrew realized that
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the situation was out of his hands his
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wife was going to divorce him and there
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seemed to be nothing he could do about
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it desperate to maintain some kind of
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control over what his wife was thinking
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and doing andrew took an extraordinary
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step he decided
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that he would
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record her conversations with
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people
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on the telephone
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the setup when janae and andrew
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separated but lived in the same house
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was that janae had her own bedroom i
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think it might have been the former
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matrimonial bedroom
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where she kept her things
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andrew had his own bedroom the boys
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shared he
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got a recording device
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taped it under the marital bed in her
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bedroom he had secreted
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sort of gaffer taped under the bed
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a voice activated digital recorder
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he could then download from that to his
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computer and listen to any conversations
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that this little machine had picked up
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if andrew was still harboring fantasies
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of changing his wife's mind the
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recordings that he heard of her phone
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calls with friends made it clear she had
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no such intentions
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miranda moore has also listened to those
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recordings she set out
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the way the marriage was deteriorating
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she set out the fact that andrew was
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behaving badly
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she set out to one of the people that
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she thought that
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one of them might kill the other one
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she set out the way he was being needy
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he was effectively setting up a torture
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device for himself
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she was telling her friends
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on the telephone how weak he was
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how docile he was she thought he was
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hopeless
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and eventually
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those conversations were all recorded
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through the recordings he heard these
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things
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and one can imagine how hurtful they
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were
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he doted on this woman
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for david hislock the revelation that
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his estranged wife despised him was all
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the more hurtful because andrew had been
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in denial
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he
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adored her he
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really his was a case of love was blind
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and he couldn't see
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that gradually that she started to
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loathe being in the relationship she was
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with him was shattering from andrew
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parsons was devastated desperate and
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increasingly angry what lengths would he
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go to to stop his wife leaving him for
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another man
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janae
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messaged someone saying
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that things got so bad that he'll
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probably kill me
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though agonizing over janie's
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relationship with another man andrew
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parsons eye was also wandering the
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picture that andrew parsons was painting
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which was that he was devastated by the
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breakdown of the marriage and
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hadn't wanted it to happen was somewhat
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undermined by what we found on his
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computer he had been on a chat room with
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two separate eastern european ladies
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firstly
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chatting to them then there was
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obviously the exchange of pictures
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because he'd said oh you're beautiful
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are you single are you looking for a new
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relationship and he'd explain that he
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was looking for a new relationship
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following the breakdown of his marriage
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he had obviously been in contact with
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both of them for some time increasingly
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at odds with one another living under
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the same roof as a separate couple
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created a toxic atmosphere
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unsurprisingly this was not a scenario
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that was healthy for anyone
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and unsurprisingly the relationship
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deteriorated enormously
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it began with janie complaining to
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friends that andrew was picking fights
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that he seemed to be finding any reason
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for them to have an argument friends
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were worried about janie but she brushed
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off their concerns after the incident
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where andrew had dragged her out of the
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bed by her
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janie's friend lee advised her to leave
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the family home
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lee had said to janae that you know he's
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dangerous and you know you need to be
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careful and janae had laughed it off i
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think it was the sort of person she was
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i imagine that janey didn't leave the
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marital home when her relationship had
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broken down with her husband because
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like most homicide victims she didn't
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imagine for one minute that he was going
00:20:06
to harm her that way there was an
00:20:08
element of possessiveness about andrew
00:20:09
parsons behaviour she was his janae
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and janae
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messaged someone saying
00:20:16
that things got so bad that he'll
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probably kill me and marry somebody else
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and make a janae suit out of my skin in
00:20:24
other words he'd want this other person
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to be like janae
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she has a conversation
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with her her new
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romantic interest
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where he says to her
00:20:36
don't be on your own with him i don't
00:20:39
trust him janae had said to daniel that
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andrew was docile and she could manage
00:20:44
him
00:20:45
she
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i recall
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had told daniel
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in
00:20:52
one of her calls that she'd thrown a
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glass at
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andrew's face during the course of an
00:20:59
argument
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and i remember
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00:21:05
her telling daniel
00:21:07
that
00:21:08
she could be
00:21:10
really tough when it came to it janae
00:21:12
was a very confident woman
00:21:14
she told andrew parsons that he needed
00:21:17
to
00:21:17
get a grip and get on with things and
00:21:19
get on with life
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this was something andrew parsons was
00:21:23
not prepared to do in the last week of
00:21:25
november 2012 he tried a new tactic to
00:21:28
win back his wife
00:21:29
now despite the deterioration of the
00:21:30
relationship it does seem that andrew is
00:21:33
still in some way
00:21:35
deluding himself about what can be
00:21:37
achieved in this time they have together
00:21:39
forget daniel daniel doesn't matter he
00:21:41
can do this and ignoring
00:21:44
all of the fights he was having ignoring
00:21:46
all the physicality
00:21:48
he still thought he could buy his way
00:21:50
back in and he spent what little money
00:21:52
he had left on a very expensive dress
00:21:54
for janie days later the dress was to
00:21:57
become the flash point that brought all
00:21:58
of andrew's raging jealousy and
00:22:00
helplessness to her head
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on the day of the 1st of december
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she
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was going
00:22:08
to london
00:22:10
and she told andrew that she was going
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to london
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at to
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an awards event
00:22:18
and she was going to stay with her
00:22:20
girlfriend lee
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that wasn't true
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and
00:22:25
andrew knew that because
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um
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he had heard
00:22:31
the
00:22:32
recordings of her telephone
00:22:34
conversations with daniel henson
00:22:38
setting up the weekend together in
00:22:41
london
00:22:43
andrew's secret recording device would
00:22:44
become incredibly important when police
00:22:46
and prosecutors later pieced together
00:22:48
the events of saturday december 1st
00:22:51
2012.
00:22:52
she was going to drive down to london
00:22:54
spend the night in a hotel
00:22:56
attend an awards ceremony for the beauty
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industry you could hear her trying to do
00:23:00
her nails and the little boys coming in
00:23:02
and her shoeing them out and saying
00:23:04
mommy's got to get ready you then hear
00:23:06
andrew parsons
00:23:08
sort of
00:23:09
fussing and bothering her and keep
00:23:11
coming in at this point around 9 30 in
00:23:14
the morning andrew was doing his utmost
00:23:16
to hide his true feelings about janie's
00:23:19
weekend away janie and andrew had a
00:23:21
conversation that began well
00:23:23
andrew told janie that she looked
00:23:25
fabulous the way she was dressed as she
00:23:27
was getting ready to go it soon
00:23:29
degenerates though he didn't wanted to
00:23:31
take the car even though he had another
00:23:32
vehicle
00:23:33
he was sort of moaning about things
00:23:36
andrew was trying his best to engage
00:23:38
janie in a row
00:23:40
she had packed her bag and it seems that
00:23:42
andrew knew what was in that bag the
00:23:44
dress that he had bought her in the hope
00:23:46
of buying back her affection
00:23:48
soon he was accusing her how could she
00:23:50
do this how so soon after finishing
00:23:53
their relationship she's going with
00:23:54
someone new andrew is picking this fight
00:23:57
despite the fact that there is in the
00:23:58
house a very young witness
00:24:01
at this time the five-year-old child was
00:24:03
still in the house
00:24:04
one of the children has been
00:24:07
gone out for the day there's one child
00:24:09
in the house but they start
00:24:12
arguing together
00:24:14
about
00:24:15
what's happening andrew told janie i
00:24:18
can't believe that you're going away i
00:24:20
can't believe that you're going for
00:24:21
straight from me to this man
00:24:23
to which jenny replied look i am seeing
00:24:25
someone else that get over it and piss
00:24:27
off so janae eventually had enough and
00:24:30
shut the door on him she sent a text
00:24:33
message to her new man friend saying
00:24:36
something along the lines of
00:24:38
andrew's starting again or andrew's
00:24:40
starting this was the last text message
00:24:43
jenny parsons ever sent to daniel
00:24:45
hansen's
00:24:46
she shut the door on him
00:24:48
and that appears to be the thing that
00:24:50
tipped him over
00:24:52
andrew parsons has his own story about
00:24:54
what happened next but the 15 minutes of
00:24:56
violence recorded on the device that he
00:24:58
had hidden in janie's bedroom tells its
00:25:00
own tale
00:25:01
the next thing you hear is the door
00:25:03
opening
00:25:04
parsons becomes
00:25:06
violent
00:25:08
very violent quite quickly he punches
00:25:11
her
00:25:12
multiple times knocks her to the floor
00:25:15
makes her dizzy she's disorientated and
00:25:18
we can tell from the recording that she
00:25:20
was dazed confused and very badly hurt
00:25:24
janae as far as we could tell was still
00:25:26
lying on the carpet
00:25:28
between the door of the bedroom and the
00:25:30
landing on the first floor of the house
00:25:33
andrew said something like
00:25:35
i'm going to get something when you
00:25:38
listen to the recording we can realize
00:25:40
that this is the point at which he makes
00:25:43
the decision to kill
00:25:45
the audio of what happens next was too
00:25:47
disturbing to be heard outside of a
00:25:48
culture we then heard on the tape andrew
00:25:51
parsons going downstairs and we heard
00:25:54
the
00:25:54
bum
00:25:55
he went downstairs to get a towel but
00:25:58
what we then heard was a kitchen drawer
00:26:01
opening
00:26:06
and then you hurt him
00:26:09
when andrew returns to the first floor
00:26:11
landing the recording picks up janie's
00:26:13
terrified reaction
00:26:14
he approaches janie who asks him andrew
00:26:18
are you going to kill me because what we
00:26:20
know happened is that andrew parsons
00:26:22
armed himself with an enormous kitchen
00:26:25
knife despite the fact his little boy
00:26:26
was there shouting mummy daddy and don't
00:26:30
and janae was shouting don't kill me and
00:26:32
words to that effect he proceeded to
00:26:33
stab her numerous times
00:26:36
it was a frenzied attack when he stops
00:26:39
janey tells him you're killing me in
00:26:41
front of our son then his son asks
00:26:44
is mummy dead and andrew says no she'll
00:26:47
be okay he asked whether mummy was going
00:26:50
to be taken to hospital and he asked
00:26:52
whether mummy was all right
00:26:54
and mr parsons said he wasn't going to
00:26:57
take her to hospital and she was fine
00:26:59
andrew parsons did not call the
00:27:01
emergency services after stabbing janae
00:27:06
had a period and unusually you knew
00:27:08
exactly how long it was because it was
00:27:09
on the tape of about seven minutes
00:27:13
before andrew parsons left the house he
00:27:16
picked up his heavily bleeding wife
00:27:18
he uh i put janae in the bath he then
00:27:22
got changed from what he was wearing
00:27:24
because when all this happened he was
00:27:26
wearing pajama bottoms and a t-shirt
00:27:28
which were heavily blood stained
00:27:31
andrew parsons put on gloves to hide a
00:27:32
small wound on his left hand then he and
00:27:35
his five-year-old boy left the house
00:27:38
what was so distressing was that when he
00:27:40
left the house janae was still alive
00:27:44
lying in the bath no water but just in
00:27:46
the bath he takes his son next door
00:27:49
and asks his neighbour to look after the
00:27:51
child telling the friend that he and
00:27:53
janae had some things to work out and
00:27:55
could they mind him for a while these
00:27:57
were close friends and they didn't think
00:27:58
anything of it apart from the fact that
00:28:00
he looked a little bit flustered even
00:28:02
when andrew returned to the house he
00:28:04
still didn't call an ambulance she is
00:28:06
still alive at this point
00:28:08
and it takes her several minutes to die
00:28:11
when andrew parsons got back to the
00:28:13
house after dropping his five-year-old
00:28:15
at the friends
00:28:16
we heard him clearing up he spent some
00:28:19
time wandering around opening drawers we
00:28:21
don't really know what he was doing
00:28:22
moving things about he also
00:28:25
rather cruelly
00:28:26
sent a text message to daniel who was
00:28:29
the gentleman friend
00:28:32
saying something like i'm sorry
00:28:35
but of course he sent it from janae's
00:28:37
phone
00:28:38
then came the part of the recording the
00:28:40
courtroom staff jury members and janie's
00:28:43
family would later find almost too
00:28:45
heartbreaking to hear
00:28:47
on the tape we hear
00:28:49
janie's dying words
00:28:51
she could be heard making her peace with
00:28:53
god
00:28:54
she was praying she was asking for
00:28:56
forgiveness and she knew she was dying
00:28:59
she says dear god forgive me for my sins
00:29:02
the tape recording captured janie's
00:29:04
gasps coughs and moans as her life
00:29:07
drained away
00:29:08
only after her death did janie's husband
00:29:11
make the call
00:29:12
ten minutes earlier
00:29:14
might have saved her life he did call
00:29:16
999 and said that he'd hurt his wife
00:29:19
real bad or really bad and that's what
00:29:21
brought the police
00:29:30
when the emergency services arrived at
00:29:32
the parsons home the front door was open
00:29:35
the first police officer to enter the
00:29:37
home knew immediately what he was
00:29:38
dealing with he said as soon as they
00:29:40
walked into the house he could smell
00:29:43
that horrible smell of blood
00:29:45
as he came in the police find parsons
00:29:48
lying at the top of the stairs his head
00:29:50
in his hand wailing my wife my wife
00:29:53
distraught at the terrible thing he's
00:29:55
done and then they found her body
00:29:57
obviously in the bath and they could see
00:29:58
the blood splatter on the upstairs
00:30:00
landing the paramedics attempt cpr but
00:30:03
to no avail andrew parsons was arrested
00:30:05
on the spot and charged with the murder
00:30:07
of his 31 year old wife janie
00:30:10
now at the scene it must have been
00:30:12
entirely clear and there's no doubt as
00:30:14
to what had happened it was right in
00:30:15
front there for the police officers who
00:30:17
attended here was a man who'd clearly
00:30:19
killed his wife and wasn't denying it
00:30:21
quite the opposite he was rushing to
00:30:23
admit it he'd called the police it
00:30:25
looked like a slam dunk case
00:30:27
however in every murder inquiry you have
00:30:29
to cover every single aspect off but
00:30:32
just because he's killed his wife it
00:30:33
doesn't mean that he may be found guilty
00:30:35
of murder it could be manslaughter scene
00:30:37
of crime officers scoured the house for
00:30:39
clues about what had happened
00:30:42
so when they did the search they were
00:30:43
looking for weapons
00:30:45
blood
00:30:46
computers telephones all the things that
00:30:48
are going to give you evidence in a
00:30:49
trial now when the officers went there
00:30:51
they did not immediately find the tape
00:30:53
recording machine that was hidden under
00:30:55
the bed i mean who would expect to find
00:30:58
an electronic recording device under a
00:31:00
double bed in a normal family home some
00:31:03
days later
00:31:04
parson's sister at his request had
00:31:06
returned to the house to collect some
00:31:08
things i think he wanted some trainers
00:31:11
or something
00:31:12
and i think he told her they were
00:31:14
underneath the double bed which
00:31:17
actually they couldn't have been she
00:31:18
wasn't living there in that room at the
00:31:20
time when she was there
00:31:23
she found the recording device she
00:31:25
thought by handing it over to the police
00:31:27
she was going to exonerate her brother
00:31:30
however she hadn't listened to it all
00:31:34
and so the police listened to it and it
00:31:35
was one of those oh my goodness look
00:31:37
what we've got moments
00:31:39
five months later parsons stood in court
00:31:42
and pleaded guilty to manslaughter it
00:31:45
was loss of control so that was the only
00:31:48
defense available to him
00:31:50
and the question for the jury was
00:31:54
what caused that loss of control
00:31:56
what was the cause now loss of control
00:31:59
is a recognized uh partial defense to
00:32:02
murder it changes murder to manslaughter
00:32:04
used to be called provocation but we now
00:32:06
call it loss of control in other words
00:32:08
something janae had said or done
00:32:11
which led to him losing control and
00:32:13
would have led to someone in the same
00:32:15
position as him losing control that was
00:32:17
andrew parsons claim the prosecution
00:32:19
refused to accept his plea you obviously
00:32:22
have to look very fairly and carefully
00:32:23
at any plea you're offered to see
00:32:24
whether it suits the circumstances but
00:32:27
we rejected it because there was nothing
00:32:29
that janae said or dirt did
00:32:31
and we know what she said or did because
00:32:33
it was on shape
00:32:34
that should or could have led to the
00:32:36
ferocity of the attack the method of the
00:32:39
attack and what happened thereafter we
00:32:41
were sure this wasn't a loss of control
00:32:43
case before the trial began there were
00:32:45
legal wranglings over whether or not a
00:32:46
jury should be allowed to hear the tape
00:32:48
recording of the attack
00:32:50
it's never easy to get every piece of
00:32:52
evidence that you've got before the jury
00:32:55
you need somebody who's got a good legal
00:32:56
background has done a lot of these sorts
00:32:59
of cases knows how to phrase an argument
00:33:01
and knows how to persuade a judge to
00:33:04
allow you to let the jury hear what you
00:33:06
want the jury to hear andrew's defense
00:33:08
believed it would be hard for him to get
00:33:10
a third trial once the jury had heard
00:33:12
audio of janie's final moments
00:33:15
nowadays we
00:33:16
quite often have to defend
00:33:20
people who are
00:33:22
seen on cctv perhaps attacking another
00:33:26
person
00:33:28
but that doesn't hold the same
00:33:31
prejudicial effect
00:33:33
as hearing
00:33:36
a recording of a man
00:33:39
and stabbing his wife and she's
00:33:41
screaming at him
00:33:43
and
00:33:44
he's screaming the child's screaming
00:33:48
um it
00:33:50
the prejudicial impact on a jury
00:33:54
is
00:33:56
extraordinary
00:33:58
as both sides anticipated hearing the
00:34:00
tape was tough for the jury to take
00:34:03
they heard that recording more than once
00:34:07
and the impact upon them
00:34:11
was considerable
00:34:13
i think it
00:34:14
went from shock
00:34:16
to horror
00:34:18
and
00:34:19
certainly i recall a number of
00:34:22
um the jurors
00:34:24
are crying
00:34:26
as the tape unfolded
00:34:29
um i i think from memory it was
00:34:33
seven eight minutes long
00:34:35
and six minutes of that
00:34:37
was the
00:34:39
knife
00:34:40
attack
00:34:42
so the horror was
00:34:44
extraordinary
00:34:46
i personally in 20 years have never
00:34:49
conducted a trial with anything close to
00:34:51
this kind of harrowing
00:34:53
direct primary material
00:34:55
it's almost unheard of to have this
00:34:58
material to be able to listen to what
00:35:00
happened
00:35:01
i'm aware that during the trial several
00:35:03
jurors broke down
00:35:05
several police officers broke down
00:35:08
members of court staff had to leave the
00:35:09
room then afterwards one of the ushers
00:35:11
said to me goodness miss moore one of
00:35:13
the jurors was sick
00:35:15
and two or three of them were obviously
00:35:17
very distressed as with the court staff
00:35:19
in the face of this andrew's defence
00:35:21
team worked hard to paint a different
00:35:23
picture he took the stand to claim that
00:35:25
he had loved his wife but that her
00:35:27
infidelity and her abuse had pushed him
00:35:30
to the brink barrister david hislop had
00:35:33
first met andrew when he was on remand
00:35:35
awaiting trial he was devoted he adored
00:35:39
his children
00:35:40
and adored his wife
00:35:42
good father good
00:35:44
good husband as as best as he was able
00:35:48
at trial mr hislop used andrew's own
00:35:51
testimony as well as the evidence of
00:35:53
text messages and the conversations that
00:35:55
andrew had covertly recorded to show how
00:35:58
he'd felt betrayed by the wife that once
00:36:00
he had loved
00:36:02
she wanted a better life and the better
00:36:04
life didn't include him in the weeks
00:36:07
leading up to janie's death
00:36:10
it was clear that
00:36:14
andrew had lapsed
00:36:16
into
00:36:18
considerable depression
00:36:20
he was
00:36:22
extremely vulnerable
00:36:24
he had started to hear
00:36:27
of her relationship with daniel he'd
00:36:30
started to hear because it was the
00:36:32
recordings under the bed of what she was
00:36:34
saying about him
00:36:36
and
00:36:37
a lot of those things weren't very nice
00:36:40
for
00:36:41
all sorts of reasons his will was
00:36:43
overborn
00:36:45
he had no control
00:36:48
he lost total control on the morning of
00:36:50
the 1st of december andrew said he had
00:36:52
been defending himself from further
00:36:54
attack
00:36:55
this time not verbal but physical
00:36:58
what we do know is that they quarreled
00:37:01
badly
00:37:02
on the 1st december about the fact that
00:37:05
she was going up to london and
00:37:09
it was during that quarrel
00:37:11
that
00:37:12
on andrew's account she attacked him and
00:37:15
hit him in the face with a mobile
00:37:17
telephone
00:37:19
and
00:37:20
that ignited
00:37:23
i think the violence
00:37:25
that followed and caused him the loss of
00:37:28
control
00:37:29
andrew said that it was at this point he
00:37:31
saw red
00:37:33
they grappled on the ground
00:37:36
he hit her
00:37:37
as she bled
00:37:41
he said he was going downstairs to get a
00:37:44
towel and when he returned
00:37:48
there was
00:37:49
janie crouched with a knife ready to
00:37:52
attack him and
00:37:54
he always maintained that she did attack
00:37:56
him and indeed he had a
00:38:00
a wound to
00:38:02
the outside of his left hand
00:38:05
and
00:38:07
we called a
00:38:09
pathologist to give evidence that
00:38:12
this was what's known as a defensive
00:38:15
wound as this happened according to the
00:38:17
defense a switch flipped in andrew's
00:38:18
head he took the knife and stabbed his
00:38:21
wife to death
00:38:22
miranda moore and her team argued in
00:38:25
court that this version of events was a
00:38:27
complete fabrication
00:38:29
andrew parsons claimed that the violence
00:38:31
started after he opened the bedroom door
00:38:33
when she'd shut him out and that she
00:38:35
threw the phone at his face
00:38:38
but on no occasion
00:38:40
on the tape do you hear that
00:38:42
and on no occasion do you hear him say
00:38:44
anything like
00:38:46
don't do that janae put the knife down
00:38:49
janae this is stupid
00:38:51
a home office pathologist confirmed the
00:38:53
injuries janie had sustained in andrew's
00:38:55
initial attack
00:38:57
the forensic evidence and the pathology
00:38:59
evidence showed that janae had been hit
00:39:02
to the face
00:39:03
once possibly twice and had fallen to
00:39:06
the floor she had the facial injuries
00:39:09
there was a mark on her head
00:39:11
consistent with hitting a part of the
00:39:13
wall
00:39:14
and she had
00:39:16
abrasion injuries consistent with having
00:39:18
landed on the floor that
00:39:20
tape evidence
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was supported by forensic evidence which
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is always important in a murder case
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jamie's autopsy also confirmed the
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injuries which had caused her death
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once
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andrew had armed himself with the knife
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he came back upstairs
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and stabbed janae a number of times as
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many as 17 we thought the ferocity of
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the attack
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was such that the tip of the knife broke
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off and was left behind in janae on the
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witness stand andrew parsons claimed to
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have very little memory of the incident
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andrew claimed that he couldn't remember
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stabbing janie he couldn't remember
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putting her in the bath to bleed out he
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didn't know why that he hadn't dialed
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the emergency services sooner and when i
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cross-examined him he had great
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difficulty in
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working out in his own mind at what
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point he couldn't remember anymore
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perhaps if you've had a clunk on the
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head that could be explicable but when
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you've done a series of acts at what
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point does your memory stop and he
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floundered rather under questioning
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to have this evidence
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and to have somebody fight a case in the
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face of this evidence to have a
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defendant
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still
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try to say they're not guilty of this
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offence
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in the face of this evidence
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it's hard to understand
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andrew parsons failed to convince the
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jury
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at the conclusion of the trial the jury
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found parsons guilty of the murder of
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his wife the judge selected 20 years as
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the tariff which means that andrew
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parsons will have to wait for 20 years
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before he is considered for parole the
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judge at oxford crown court considered
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aggravating and mitigating factors in
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deciding past and sentence
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that deliberate arming by him when she's
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on the floor already was an aggravating
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feature
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having a five-year-old present is an
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aggravating feature handing down
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sentence on the 24th of may 2013 the
00:41:17
judge told parsons that he had killed in
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a jealous rage he said nobody could
00:41:22
predict the degree of psychological harm
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that he had caused to his son who had
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witnessed the attack
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the judge also reflected the tributes
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that had poured in for janie after her
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death
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we choose to remember janae for the
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amazing person that she was not the
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victim that she became when she sadly
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passed
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she was regarded back at home in
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oklahoma as being i think they have the
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thing that the one most likely to
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succeed
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she was away for a very long time and
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yet everyone still remembered her janae
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was very charismatic she always brought
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a lot of laughter and a lot of fun into
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the room she really did
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love life and everybody loved janae
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