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on the 5th of November 2007 in the rural
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Village of red Mali in gloucestershire
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England 55 year old Kate Prout vanished
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her husband Adrian claimed she'd walked
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out on him
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at first you know people's hearts went
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out to him he'd been abandoned
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even though we've come by you had no
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concern about our well-being well I did
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but I thought if things weren't good
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someone would have rung May or I assumed
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she was okay
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he feels that he can just carry on and
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he
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and he converting
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keep stay the right things and this will
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eventually go away
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despite no body being found the Friendly
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Farmer was convicted of Kate's murder
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the entire Community was shocked
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goes to prison he maintains his
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innocence in the way that he has all the
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way through this
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missing piece of that jigsaw is we've
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still got a missing body
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the trail went cold
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an army of supporters campaigned to
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overturn this supposed miscarriage of
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Justice until 2010 when proud himself
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completed the puzzle
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to be perfectly honest I just thought it
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was gonna be sick I'm so opposite him in
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prison and he's just confessed that he's
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killed his wife
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after years of pleading his innocence
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the Mars had finally slipped Adrian
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Prout had revealed himself as one of the
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world's most evil killers
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foreign
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[Music]
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[Music]
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for four years after his wife
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disappeared farmer Adrian Prout claimed
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that Kate was actually alive and well
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and in hiding
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it was a lie but it was one so
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convincingly told it reeled in proud's
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friends family and the rural community
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in which the couple lived
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he said that was her plan that was her
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plan to disappear and to get him done
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for murder so he said it was all set up
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obviously we believed his lies and we
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were drawn into the Web of Lies we never
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knew
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were lies
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people lie to the place all the time
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that's what they do
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there is a difference here
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he's created a narrative and he has to
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live and breathe that narrative
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then he has to build on it and layer it
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and every time he has an interaction
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with another individual
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or friends and family
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that narrative has to stand scrutiny
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coercive men like Prouds they are
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incredibly accomplished they have a way
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of actually reeling you in of convincing
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you that everything that they're saying
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is true
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the seemingly friendly and helpful local
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farmer was difficult to connect to the
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image of the manipulative killer he'd
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been proven to be
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it's a dichotomy in my mind because
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there is this gentle being but now look
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at his hands and think you'd just take
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another person's life the outward
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appearance doesn't come across as what's
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really going on internally this is a
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calculating murderer
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[Applause]
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this Killer's Story begins in the
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village of Coley gloucestershire
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Adrian Michael Prout was born on the
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14th of June
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1962. he was the second youngest of four
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siblings his mother
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Jeanette
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died shortly after the birth of her
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fourth child
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was two years old when his mother passed
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away so this is something that is
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lacking in his life he doesn't have that
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relationship with a mother that is going
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to be the basis on which he forms
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relationships with other women
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both Adrian's father and grandfather
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were farmers and he grew up helping out
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on the Family Farms
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his dream was to one day have a farm of
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his own
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prouts grew into a man who really did
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have quite a lot of ambition he wanted
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to be successful he wanted to be seen to
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be successful
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he was a hard-working individual it was
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always around farming he'd had
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connections locally he'd worked for
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people they were always very impressed
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with the sort of things that he did he
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was an engaging and hard-working
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individual
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he'd had a quite a successful pipeline
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business
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in 1999 after a couple of failed
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relationships 37 year old Adrian Prout
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met Kate Wakefield
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Kate was a teacher and like proud came
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from a farming family hey was the sister
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of a friend of his at this point in his
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life Pratt was having a bit of a
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difficult time and Kate's brother
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offered to put him up in a property
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whilst he got back on his feet and I
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think this is quite a significant thing
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because Pat had that friendship with her
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brother he comes pre-vetted essentially
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Kate Wakefield is pretty nearly 10 years
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older than Adrian Prout a wise woman
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hard-working
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thoughtful but is
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I think the phrase would be bowled over
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by Adrian proud
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they were married within the space of a
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year and this is an incredibly
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accelerated relationship the pace of it
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is incredibly fast
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initially they were seeing as the
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perfect couple they gone on really well
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I think friends and family would
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describe them personality wise that they
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were quite different so they're old
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adage that opposites attracts
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in 2004 Prout and Kate
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by a farm
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called Red Hill Farm
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is near Red Mali in gloucestershire
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she can afford it because she's
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inherited a cottage which she sold and
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she's contributing to the house
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this is quite an extensive quite an
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impressive property and in this part of
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the country agriculture is quite a
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significant industry and Farmers have
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some status they have a lot of land they
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have a lot of property so essentially
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Kate was for him the vehicle that
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allowed him to reach this ambition and
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the things that she had were very
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attractive for her
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at the age of 41 Adrian proud had
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achieved his lifelong goal of owning his
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own Farm
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he's going to run pheasant shoots
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and she's going to cater for them at Red
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Molly
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he's still got the pipeline business
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and as far as anyone can tell this is a
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perfectly happy stable relationship
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and so it remains
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the couple ran successful pheasant
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shoots over the next two years but in
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2006 there were signs that suggested
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their honeymoon period had come to an
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end there were some public interactions
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and spats between the pair of them they
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were starting to be that glimmer of
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things that were not quite as people
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were thought initially
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on boxing day 2006 things reached ahead
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during an argument over the family's
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dinner plans
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starts in the kitchen and goes outside
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and it's at first time we see real
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evidence of the
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violence that was beneath the surface in
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this apparently stable marriage
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Prout pushes Kate against the Land Rover
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that they have with such Force the
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actually dents the car
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she's frightened
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the cracks in the relationship became
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even more apparent two months later in
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February 2007.
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plates had been thrown right across the
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kitchen had been a full-blown
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confrontation
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once again the argument continued
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outside
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he had grabbed her by the neck and held
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her over an empty swimming pool
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the police had been called I think it
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actually been arrested
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she was to say later he went mad
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I really thought I'd had it
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there was no controlling him
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this shows me that he's changing tactics
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at this point in time I think up until
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this point he's been using charm and
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manipulation to get control and to get
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his own way but that is no longer
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working and with men like proud when
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those techniques no longer work they
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resort to physical violence
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in November 2007 after months of living
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with a volatile and violent husband Kate
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went to see her solicitor about
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divorcing Adrian Prout
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the farm by now is valued at 1.3 million
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pounds Adrian is intent on hanging on to
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it offers Kate six hundred thousand
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pounds to go
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Kay consults a solicitor
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and says no I want eight hundred
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thousand
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the settlement of that size meant one
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thing Red Hill Farm would have to be
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sold
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we know that that farm was always Adrian
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prout's dream to own a farm to run it
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like that was always his dream there was
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a moment then that dawn of realization
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that he was going to lose the farm he
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was going to lose everything he feels
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entitled to that farm he feels that farm
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is his he's very much about ownership
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and possession of things and now he's
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got a barrier in between the farm and
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him and that barrier is Kate
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Adrian Prout had no intention of giving
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up the farm but before any settlement
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could be finalized there was a
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development Kate went missing
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hundreds and hundreds of people daily
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get reported to the police is missing
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but it was the circumstances really
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around Kate's disappearance that was the
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concern
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it had taken 45 year old Prout five days
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to report Kate's disappearance to the
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police
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and he didn't appear to be a worried
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husband and you went even though weeks
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come by you had no concern about her
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well-being then YouTube well I did but I
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thought if things weren't good someone
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would have rung me or
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you know I assumed she was okay
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someone's lost a loved one is a powerful
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emotion that's what you need to see and
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if they're not displaying that then
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immediately your suspicions are up
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you're worried and you need to be
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looking into a little bit more
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proud freely admitted that he was not
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concerned by his wife's disappearance he
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was suggesting she'd gone off on her own
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it's just something she wanted he wasn't
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concerned she'd done it before
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at least some of the locals
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are convinced that
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Kate had just had enough and left to
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start a new life
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it made sense to them this wasn't a
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happy couple
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Pratt was able to draw upon this victim
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status that he'd stepped into my wife
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has left me she's going to take me to
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the cleaners Paul me and he used this to
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his advantage in this situation because
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he's going to be saying things like why
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would I be in contact with her why would
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I want to know where she is she's making
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my life such a misery
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it does sound feasible but when you
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build into that that none of the family
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had heard from her at all
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she doesn't go to her niece's 18th
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birthday party she doesn't contact
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anyone
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she's as far as anyone Can Tell She's
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disappeared into a puff of smoke
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she might be wishing to split from a
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partner but you're still going to make
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social contact and you're still going to
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have an interaction with your family
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none of that was happening
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from the minute Adrian proud reported
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her missing investigators had been
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working through the possible reasons for
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Kate's disappearance there's been no
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contact from Kate
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since you last Saw around lunchtime on
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Monday no
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three things likely to have happened
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she's either had an accident somewhere
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and she's full of a horse or whatever it
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might be and she's out in the fields or
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wherever
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she's gone off her own fruition she
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doesn't want to be found and hasn't
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contacted anybody and wants to be on her
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own
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or something more sinister
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she's been murdered simple as that
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you were aware that a car had been left
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Beyond were you aware of any other
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things that have been left behind that
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that she'd normally have with her no I
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couldn't buy no car keys which was
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strange
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so you always put in the drawer in the
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kitchen and they weren't there so I
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assumed she had a car keys with her
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if she goes out I mean what stuff would
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she normally take with her other
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personal names I mean credit cards purse
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things like that yeah and phone
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those things that are part of people's
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daily lives that they never let go of
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all that was at the house she'd gone
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with nothing apart from ineffective
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clothes that she was wearing that's your
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starting point that doesn't stack up at
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all that's not normal behavior for
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people
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early investigations revealed only one
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trace of Kate after proud purported to
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have seen her the last third party
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contact that had contacted she'd had
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with anybody else was to ring her bank
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on the late afternoon of that Monday on
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that 5th of November
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how can I help you today
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[Music]
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from that Monday afternoon she literally
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dropped off the radar she wasn't seen
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from or heard from again
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believing from the outset that it was
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unlikely that Kate had as Adrian proud
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claimed walked out on her husband
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investigators were left with two
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hypotheses either they want to go and
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kill themselves at suicide or chances
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are something more Sinister in the
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circumstances so the police are
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exploring what exists in the background
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that would mean that someone wouldn't
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want her to be around anymore
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and the information very quickly emerged
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that there was trouble in their marriage
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that Kate was seeking a divorce and
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she'd been to see a divorce lawyer and
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he's going to lose the thing that he's
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worked all his life for
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in the background we know that not only
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are things not well in that marriage but
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there is a known level of violence and
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the police have been called previously
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by the 27th of November 2007 the Finger
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of Suspicion was clearly pointing in One
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Direction Adrian Prout is arrested on
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suspicion of Kate's murder
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proud maintained his story and an
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initial search at Red Hill Farm proved
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fruitless he'd given his version of
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events that found nothing and as a
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consequence of that he leads the police
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station
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convinced that there was a Sinister
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truth behind proud's claims of being the
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jilted husband
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investigators began an intensive search
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of the farm is a very good chance based
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on his ability to work heavy machinery
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in his pipeline business that the body
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is probably on the site why would you
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need to take her anywhere else if that's
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the case and you've got 250 Acres you
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can't just search the whole lot so you
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have to be clever and smart in the way
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that you approach it you use tactics
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like ground penetrating radar dogs that
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are used to finding bodies and can smell
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that that's your location that's where
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you start
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the search team were hopeful of an early
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lead when one of the dogs had a reaction
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inside the couple's home
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it got quite excited as these things do
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around a sofa in the house but when a
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full forensic team went in and looked
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there was no evidence there whatsoever
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the searches around the rest of the
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house and the land that sat around it
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went on for a night on five weeks there
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was no physical evidence of a a
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disturbance a fight a murder homicide or
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indeed the moving of a body there was
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nothing there
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foreign
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detectives were confident that Prout was
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a killer but with no sign of Kate they
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were facing a so-called nobody murder
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case which is notoriously hard to prove
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where the body comes a huge wealth of
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forensic evidence to help you unpick how
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they've died and who potentially has
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killed them
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here you've got no body so you really
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are up against it
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[Music]
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Christmas Kate had been missing for
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eight weeks but life for Adrian Prout
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appeared to continue unaffected
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Debbie garlic encountered him in a local
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pub
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I was with my friend and Asian walked in
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with
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um somebody we know
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if he's in the pub by himself he
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wouldn't have had a conversation with
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him but because he's with people that we
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knew really really well and sometimes
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people would come back to my house for
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Jamie if the pub closed and everything
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else so that's what we did
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as we walked out the landlord said be
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careful to me my friend I was like okay
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as soon as he got back he said do you
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know do you know who I am
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and then he told us to survey
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later that night Debbie did some
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research on the man she'd just met
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we just Googled everything man
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it was under suspicion of murder
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one of our friends said there's no way
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that he would have done anything like
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that no way
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everyone just thought she disappeared
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the police disagreed and on the 4th of
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January 2008 they publicly announced
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their belief that Kate was dead
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two weeks later Adrian Prout was
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arrested for the second time they're
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hoping that he's going to confess to
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doing what they think he's done
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there was no confession Adrian Prout
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maintained that Kate had left of her own
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accord with the intention of stitching
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him up
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there is no firm evidence it is all
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circumstantial so he'd have to go out
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and police bail you can't just hold
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someone or charge someone without
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evidence
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that's when a challenging difficult and
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protracted police investigation takes
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place and there is no easy answer to
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that
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investigators began focusing on Proof of
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Life
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a common phrase within policing in legal
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terms ultimately it's about establishing
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that somebody lives their life in a
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certain way interacting with banks
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finance institutions friends and family
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Etc
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but at the moment in time it all stops
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there's no more interaction
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now that's unusual and the only
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reasonable conclusion that you can reach
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is that person is no longer alive
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the police began the process of proving
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not only that Kate Prout was dead but
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that she'd been murdered
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in May Debbie garlic had another chance
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meeting with Prout in the pub
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by the next morning to put a note
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through my letterbox with his telephone
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number on and said if you want give me a
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call
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we went out the following day and took a
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picnic
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and then he said that he wouldn't have
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relationship with anybody because it
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wasn't the right time
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but two days later Debbie heard from him
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again he phoned me and from the
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Wednesday onwards we just started our
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relationship full on from there
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it had been six months since his wife
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disappeared but proud had a seemingly
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plausible explanation for her prolonged
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absence she had gone off before and gone
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on holiday with one of her sisters or
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something or sister-in-law and hadn't
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told him then where she was going
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so he just thought that they were hiding
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him away
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he didn't want to be part of his life it
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wasn't a big thing about where she was
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if you get what I mean
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as part of the ongoing investigation
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indicates disappearance detectives had
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discovered she kept a diary this told a
00:22:10
very different story to the one that
00:22:12
Adrian Prout was spinning she explains
00:22:15
on over a number of entries over a
00:22:18
period of weeks and months what's been
00:22:20
happening in her life the tension with
00:22:21
Adrian the fact that she's worried and
00:22:24
concerned
00:22:26
there are constant references to her
00:22:28
being frightened of Adrian Prout
00:22:30
references to the fact that he lost it
00:22:33
with me
00:22:34
if you like it's the clearest evidence
00:22:36
so far
00:22:38
of the true nature
00:22:40
of the marriage between Adrian and Kate
00:22:43
Prout
00:22:45
all of that is good evidence as if it's
00:22:48
almost like Kate's voice that's the
00:22:50
importance of it this is Kate talking
00:22:51
through her diary
00:22:55
despite the mounting evidence suggesting
00:22:57
Prout was weaving a Web of Lies in
00:23:01
January 2009 he was told he was no
00:23:04
longer a suspect and released from bail
00:23:08
that was the news that we obviously were
00:23:09
hoping for
00:23:10
and that's when we all moved up to the
00:23:12
farm together
00:23:15
The Cloud of Suspicion appeared to have
00:23:17
lifted Debbie and her two children moved
00:23:20
into Red Hill Farm with Prout
00:23:23
they've reached a stage where we told
00:23:26
him he's no longer a suspect I suspect
00:23:27
that was to try and Trigger some
00:23:29
conversation with friends and family of
00:23:30
him he might not confess it to the
00:23:33
police
00:23:33
but he might confess it to a good mate
00:23:35
or he might confess it to Debbie garlic
00:23:39
I think Prout feels incredibly
00:23:41
Victorious at this point in time he
00:23:44
feels like he has very successfully
00:23:46
pulled the wolf over everybody's eyes
00:23:48
and this is a problem that has just gone
00:23:50
away
00:23:52
in the background their investigation is
00:23:54
continuing and they've gone to the crown
00:23:56
prosecution service around charging
00:24:00
a month after moving in together the
00:24:03
couple's world was turned upside down on
00:24:07
the 10th of March Debbie was home alone
00:24:09
with her children we were sleeping bad
00:24:12
and we just heard shouting
00:24:15
and um so we all just got out I wonder
00:24:18
what the hell was going on and we walked
00:24:20
into all these police in the house
00:24:23
they asked me not to phone Adrian
00:24:26
but I did
00:24:29
when proud returned home he didn't seem
00:24:32
concerned by the unfolding events I
00:24:36
think he said something like here we go
00:24:37
again and I'd saw something
00:24:40
and then they charged him with murder
00:24:42
in front of us all and handcuffed him
00:24:45
and check them away
00:24:48
we thought they must have found
00:24:50
something then they must have found
00:24:52
something for them for him to be charged
00:24:54
with murder
00:24:57
Debbie was left assuming that Kate's
00:24:59
body had been found but she was wrong
00:25:03
the police had been really active in
00:25:06
progressing the inquiries and they've
00:25:07
gone to the crown prosecution service so
00:25:09
they are going to be explaining what
00:25:10
they've got the circumstantial evidence
00:25:12
and they would be having to seek a
00:25:14
decision to charge him once you've
00:25:16
reached that stage there wouldn't be a
00:25:19
need for any continuation of bail or
00:25:21
anything of that nature he's coming in
00:25:23
foreign
00:25:25
Prout appeared later that day at
00:25:27
Cheltenham Crown Court charged with the
00:25:30
murder of his wife Kate
00:25:32
after a month in prison he was released
00:25:35
on bail awaiting trial
00:25:38
he was saved can't believe I've been in
00:25:40
prison and I can't believe that they
00:25:42
thought I've done it I'm innocent
00:25:45
so we were like
00:25:47
a few men with the police thinking that
00:25:50
to put in prison for a month
00:25:52
for no reason
00:25:55
out on bail life returned to normality
00:25:59
and the couple celebrated some happy
00:26:01
news Debbie and Prout were engaged to be
00:26:06
married
00:26:07
extinct few people had made a comment
00:26:09
thinking
00:26:10
um
00:26:11
maybe that was a wrong decision that we
00:26:13
made especially for Adrian's part
00:26:15
because he's still got a wife really
00:26:19
we see this similar pattern happening
00:26:21
again The Accelerated pace of a
00:26:24
relationship the need for that early
00:26:26
commitment and this is something that
00:26:29
happens frequently with men like proud
00:26:33
we had the occasion party and found out
00:26:35
I was pregnant with my daughter
00:26:37
which was a nice surprise and then we
00:26:40
found out the court case was going to be
00:26:42
January 11th the same day that she was
00:26:45
due
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00:26:48
Debbie was induced a week early so that
00:26:51
the birth of their daughter wouldn't
00:26:53
coincide with the trial
00:26:56
he loved having a baby yay fed her
00:26:59
changed her
00:27:00
got up in the night
00:27:03
it was a Hands-On dad
00:27:05
and then she was a week old when the
00:27:07
court case started
00:27:11
the evidence presented to the jury over
00:27:13
the course of three weeks was entirely
00:27:16
circumstantial
00:27:18
there is no forensic evidence there is
00:27:20
nothing to suggest more importantly
00:27:23
physically if you like evidentially
00:27:26
forensically that that Kate has been
00:27:28
killed that's why it took so long that's
00:27:31
why this Proof of Life as the expression
00:27:33
which is a bit of a nuanced really
00:27:35
because you're proving that someone's
00:27:36
died rather than that they're alive
00:27:39
that's why it's so important
00:27:42
I didn't go to court for the first three
00:27:44
weeks but I went every day for the
00:27:47
fourth week because Adrian was convinced
00:27:48
she'd be not guilty and so he wanted us
00:27:52
to walk out the court together to move
00:27:53
on with the rest of our lives
00:27:56
unusually in this case there were only
00:27:59
11 members of the jury and they retired
00:28:02
to consider their verdict and then
00:28:05
rumors ago in mind that it was nine
00:28:07
people together and two people weren't
00:28:09
and I remember him said to me oh I can't
00:28:11
believe two people think that I've done
00:28:13
it
00:28:14
so he's thinking now that nine people
00:28:16
think he's innocent and two people think
00:28:18
he's guilty
00:28:21
the jury were clear ultimately that Kate
00:28:24
was alive on the 5th of November and
00:28:27
within five days later she certainly she
00:28:29
wasn't alive
00:28:31
Adrian could only have been the person
00:28:33
that killed her ultimately so he had all
00:28:35
of the motivation there sure that she
00:28:37
wasn't around because she wasn't going
00:28:39
to get that money that's what's
00:28:40
presented to the jury
00:28:42
that's what they thought well actually
00:28:44
there's only one conclusion we can
00:28:45
reasonably make here
00:28:49
the verdict came that he was guilty
00:28:52
I just burst into tears
00:28:56
of course he goes straight to prison
00:28:57
then
00:28:58
but we went home without him that day
00:29:00
which is really hard and our baby was
00:29:03
four weeks old
00:29:04
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00:29:07
having never believed that he would be
00:29:09
found guilty proud's family had to face
00:29:13
a harsh reality I went down to the post
00:29:16
office to get every single Paper
00:29:20
that I could get all the papers were
00:29:22
killer agent Pride agent price killed
00:29:25
his wife nobody and even the chap you
00:29:29
own the shop precise time came out and
00:29:31
and he put his arms around me when it's
00:29:33
so wrong what's happened to him he said
00:29:36
you don't know you're getting married
00:29:37
because that's what everyone was was
00:29:38
like it wasn't just me it was everybody
00:29:42
on the 8th of February 2010 prior to a
00:29:46
sentence to a minimum of 18 years in
00:29:49
prison
00:29:50
but the convicted murderer maintained
00:29:53
his innocence ultimately what you've got
00:29:55
is you've got a guy that was charged
00:29:57
with murder been convicted and he's gone
00:29:59
to prison the missing piece of that
00:30:01
jigsaw is we've still got a missing body
00:30:05
somewhere we still think that that Kate
00:30:07
is out there somewhere and we and we
00:30:09
want to you know find her ultimately so
00:30:11
that will always remain open but you're
00:30:13
gonna need some information before you
00:30:15
can do anything else
00:30:18
I did not dancing I went to see him I
00:30:21
asked him to find our daughter's life
00:30:23
that if he has not killed Kate and he
00:30:25
sworn her life and said he hasn't killed
00:30:27
her and then I got upset then because I
00:30:29
thought
00:30:31
um that was bad for me to have died that
00:30:33
he might have done something he might
00:30:35
have killed her so I felt really bad in
00:30:37
myself then
00:30:40
proud knows exactly what buttons to push
00:30:43
with Debbie he knows exactly the kind of
00:30:45
things to say to make her feel bad for
00:30:48
even raising the question so I think
00:30:50
that shows how manipulative he really is
00:30:55
believing an innocent man had been
00:30:57
jailed proud supporters were determined
00:31:00
to prove that Kate Prout was alive the
00:31:04
only thing we could do was to prove he
00:31:05
was innocent that the crime had not been
00:31:07
committed then obviously we started
00:31:08
searching for Kate we put out a reward
00:31:12
that if anyone added information on the
00:31:14
whereabouts of Cape price then obviously
00:31:16
they would claim the reward and that's
00:31:19
when it all started to begin the
00:31:21
campaigned to get him out of prison
00:31:24
Debbie's campaign caught the attention
00:31:27
of Veteran reporter Tom Hendry he was a
00:31:31
woman who still believed even though he
00:31:33
was in jail that he was innocent and she
00:31:36
launched a huge crusade to dry and find
00:31:40
Kate and as a result I realized there
00:31:44
was potential for a really great story
00:31:49
Tom became Debbie's media advisor and
00:31:52
assisted with the appeal for information
00:31:54
on Kate's true whereabouts we had a
00:31:58
number of sightings one was in Cork in
00:32:01
southern Ireland
00:32:03
somebody got in touch they said it
00:32:05
looked like hey and she was a tutor and
00:32:08
Kate was teacher
00:32:10
we actually thought we'd got a
00:32:12
we went over to Ireland the news
00:32:14
agencies and a photographer I didn't go
00:32:16
personally and Debbie was joking you
00:32:19
know as to if if if K if Kate had turned
00:32:22
up it would have been a film made and
00:32:24
who would have played her
00:32:27
every single member of agent's family
00:32:30
and my family came up and we waited for
00:32:33
the telephone call to say that it was
00:32:36
okay but the telephone call come through
00:32:37
to say that it obviously wasn't Kate so
00:32:39
we were all devastated about that
00:32:43
and then we had a site in Scarborough
00:32:45
and that wasn't her either
00:32:47
we did articles on news we did articles
00:32:49
in the paper for any information
00:32:52
on the website to do with the missed Co
00:32:53
suggested they were looking into that
00:32:55
for us
00:32:58
proud is going along with this but the
00:33:00
outcome that he wants is to get out of
00:33:02
prison and he will be using people to
00:33:05
his Advantage you won't be feeling bad
00:33:07
about it he doesn't see his family and
00:33:09
friends in the way that most people do
00:33:11
other people exist in terms of what they
00:33:14
can do for him so he was simply
00:33:16
surrounded by useful people at this
00:33:18
point in time
00:33:20
desperate to prove that there had been a
00:33:23
miscarriage of Justice proud supporters
00:33:25
were running out of options until
00:33:28
journalist Tom Henry had an
00:33:31
unconventional idea
00:33:33
it had gone on for so long I thought if
00:33:36
this guy proud took a lie detector test
00:33:38
that would prove maybe once and for all
00:33:40
if he was telling the truth or not
00:33:43
and Debbie agreed
00:33:45
I was like couldn't wait for the
00:33:47
headline to be age in practice innocent
00:33:49
he's just passed to the lie detector
00:33:51
test
00:33:53
Debbie and Tom visited Prout in Bristol
00:33:56
prison we our stage Jennifer do a lie
00:33:58
detector test an agent agreed straight
00:34:00
away
00:34:01
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00:34:02
I didn't have any suspicions about him
00:34:04
he was very calm very controlled and
00:34:08
therefore you know you know I didn't
00:34:10
smell any kind of rat at all
00:34:13
Don Cargill one of the UK's leading
00:34:16
polygraph experts arranged to conduct a
00:34:20
test on Adrian in prison bear in mind
00:34:23
this Adrian who was wanting the test I
00:34:26
thought he would have great this is my
00:34:28
day of you know the truthful out and
00:34:30
I'll be proven to be a non-killer and
00:34:32
wrongly convicted but the reality was it
00:34:35
was a frozen reaction he didn't really
00:34:37
want to do this which really that did
00:34:40
take you by surprise
00:34:43
I left him alone for about 20 minutes
00:34:45
went back and he said I suppose I better
00:34:48
do it I suppose I better do it for
00:34:50
Debbie's sake and I said no no no no no
00:34:53
do it for your own side
00:34:56
the questions put to Adrian Prout during
00:34:59
the test were very straightforward did
00:35:02
he kill his wife Kate Prout
00:35:04
did he pay someone else to do it and did
00:35:06
he know where the body was he said no to
00:35:08
all three questions so when we did the
00:35:10
test three times I looked at the results
00:35:12
and quite clearly you had murdered his
00:35:15
wife and I did say to him I'm sorry but
00:35:17
I'm looking at a murderer and he just
00:35:19
went
00:35:21
well are you saying my test is wrong and
00:35:24
he said
00:35:31
Don cargo phone me up and she said
00:35:34
Debbie you're you're engaged to a
00:35:36
murderer
00:35:38
and that was Don's words
00:35:43
it was just so emotional I didn't want
00:35:45
to believe it and of course my plans
00:35:48
have all gone out the window now because
00:35:50
obviously the plan was it was gonna pass
00:35:52
plan was we're going to go to the papers
00:35:54
agent pranks passed but everything
00:35:56
stopped
00:35:58
there was no further forward now
00:36:01
maybe he was so arrogant uh
00:36:04
proud that he thought he could beat this
00:36:06
test
00:36:07
and clearly he couldn't
00:36:11
my sister said to me
00:36:13
that if he'd done it you'd have gone to
00:36:15
the papers you'd have believed it so
00:36:18
really you should believe in it that
00:36:19
he's failed it there he has done his
00:36:21
murderer because you can't believe one
00:36:24
way and not the other
00:36:27
when Debbie visited Prout he was adamant
00:36:30
that the polygraph had been rigged and
00:36:33
professed his innocence
00:36:35
here he brings back that victim Persona
00:36:38
poor me everybody's against me
00:36:40
everybody's out to get me
00:36:43
for the next couple of months it was
00:36:45
strained between us both
00:36:48
the phone calls Australian I think he
00:36:50
knew that failing that however much he
00:36:54
tried to deny it it changed all our
00:36:56
minds
00:36:57
[Music]
00:36:58
my thoughts now have gone to Kate's
00:37:00
family
00:37:02
so we're protesting his innocence and
00:37:04
these poor people now have lost Kate
00:37:07
and for the last year I've never thought
00:37:09
about their feelings and so my I wanted
00:37:13
to find out the chief for their sake and
00:37:16
for Kate's sake
00:37:17
that was my plan now the plan had
00:37:20
changed
00:37:21
I just I just knew we would get to the
00:37:23
bottom of it but I didn't know when
00:37:27
in November 2011 three months after the
00:37:31
failed polygraph test Debbie visited
00:37:34
Adrian Prout determined to get an answer
00:37:37
once and for all I went there with my
00:37:40
sister and I did say that I'd stick by
00:37:43
him but then I didn't always think I'd
00:37:45
get the answer that I did I said
00:37:48
um if you have killed Kate and I will
00:37:52
stand by you but you need to tell me the
00:37:53
truth so we can give Kate a proper
00:37:55
funeral
00:37:56
and he just said she's had one
00:37:58
well I knew then he'd killed her
00:38:03
I just I don't think me and my sister
00:38:06
knew what to say we just sat there
00:38:07
because I think we to be perfectly
00:38:09
honest I just thought I was gonna be
00:38:10
sick
00:38:12
now the floodgates had finally been
00:38:15
opened Prout did not hold back he said
00:38:19
that they argued and she uh the money
00:38:23
that she wanted
00:38:25
and they started arguing and he
00:38:27
strangled her
00:38:30
he went to the pub
00:38:31
and then got back in buried her in the
00:38:34
woods he said he Dig a Hole by hand and
00:38:36
he had to shoot the next day and carried
00:38:38
on as normal
00:38:39
and the police never found one bit of
00:38:41
evidence of that
00:38:47
one of the detectives came in and said
00:38:49
we've just had Adrian's girlfriend come
00:38:52
to the police station and say that
00:38:55
Adrian has confessed that he's killed
00:38:57
Kate Prout
00:38:59
there's the potential that we've got
00:39:01
that final piece of the jigsaw So within
00:39:04
24 hours we've got police officers at
00:39:06
the prison talking to him and he may
00:39:08
well have said no I didn't say that made
00:39:11
it all up but he didn't
00:39:13
this morning I'm going to read you a
00:39:15
prepared statement in relation to why we
00:39:17
are here
00:39:19
the statement goes yesterday morning we
00:39:22
received some new and significant
00:39:24
information in relation to the murder of
00:39:25
Kate Prout
00:39:28
agreed to show police where he'd buried
00:39:32
his wife from his prison cell handcuffed
00:39:35
to a policeman the convicted killer and
00:39:38
now confessed murderer Adrian Prout
00:39:40
returns to the farm where he committed
00:39:42
his crime
00:39:44
he took us to a location on a hill which
00:39:47
was a quite an extensive piece of
00:39:49
Woodland probably a bit bigger than a
00:39:51
football pitch
00:39:52
there was no x marks to spot for sure
00:39:54
so where he'd initially pointed out we
00:39:58
dug and unsuccessfully so we couldn't
00:40:01
find Kate and what we brought in then
00:40:03
were Godiva dogs so sniffing dogs to see
00:40:06
if we could find a body and they did the
00:40:09
usual dog thing of sniffing places and
00:40:11
that was unsuccessful and then we used
00:40:14
ground penetrating Raider as well and
00:40:16
that didn't help either and day one day
00:40:19
two after that could only be described
00:40:22
the initial excitement really that
00:40:24
actually we might solve this and we
00:40:26
could do this really quickly now and
00:40:28
move it on that wasn't happening
00:40:31
the media had taken over the chocolate
00:40:34
box Village of red Mali and expectations
00:40:37
were high precious massive the pressure
00:40:40
was huge waiting for for something to
00:40:42
happen
00:40:44
finally on day four the search team made
00:40:48
the Grim discovery
00:40:50
at one o'clock this afternoon we have
00:40:53
found human remains close to the
00:40:55
location Adrian Prout identified as the
00:40:58
place he buried his wife
00:41:01
I just cried for her family
00:41:04
and it must have been horrendous for
00:41:06
them
00:41:08
I thought they were hiding us so I
00:41:10
thought they knew where she was but for
00:41:12
them
00:41:13
they knew that she was dead because she
00:41:15
would have been in contact with them
00:41:17
they had to live all that time knowing
00:41:19
that she's just been buried somewhere
00:41:21
and concealed and would they ever get
00:41:23
her back one of those days I don't think
00:41:25
they thought they would
00:41:26
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00:41:30
Cade's family were finally able to lay
00:41:33
her to rest in January
00:41:35
2012. more than four years after she'd
00:41:39
been killed that information came from
00:41:42
Debbie at that moment in time if it
00:41:44
hadn't then
00:41:47
service sentence life moves on
00:41:50
it may never have come out
00:41:54
Adrian Prout will be eligible to apply
00:41:57
for parole in 2028.
00:42:01
as an individual
00:42:03
I struggle with the concept of being
00:42:05
able to harm someone in the way that he
00:42:07
has but not just to do that but to harm
00:42:10
so many other people around him as a
00:42:12
consequence
00:42:13
that's not normal for human behavior
00:42:17
everybody was fooled by him lie detector
00:42:20
test proved that I was among them but he
00:42:23
was a very convincing liar
00:42:25
[Music]
00:42:27
scars remain for those who were burned
00:42:30
by proud lies he took away the family
00:42:33
that we all were going to have together
00:42:37
you don't expect things like that to
00:42:39
happen to your family
00:42:43
my daughter
00:42:44
I think that's the hardest part
00:42:46
because she's we always have to be
00:42:49
growing up knowing that her dad's in
00:42:50
prison
00:42:51
and he's a murderer
00:42:56
[Music]
00:42:58
Prout was a master manipulator whose
00:43:02
selfishness knew no limits he killed his
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wife just to avoid having to give her
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what was rightfully hers
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then he played the jilted husband and
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crawly pulled others into his Web of
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Lies
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he never had a thought for anyone but
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himself making Adrian Prout one of
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Britain's most evil killers
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foreign
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