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the code daier stretches from uh Monaco
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across to uh Sant trpe and just beyond
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and it's been a holiday playground for a
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good two centuries if not
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more we're dealing with a very glitzy
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moneyed part of Europe the massively
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wealthy all live along the French
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Riviera a lot of it you could almost say
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is based around Monaco one of the
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richest places in the
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world places like can Sant
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Trope all those kind of Seaside results
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have always been associated with film
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stars we say billionaire businessmen
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nowadays not even just
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multi-millionaires there's so much money
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there you see it in the very flash cars
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that you see along the coast you see it
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on the super Yachts it's a very rich
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moneyed
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area the central player in this drama
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was of course Anthony Ashley Cooper the
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10th Earl of shpr he was somebody who is
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interesting as a person um but also very
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interesting historically his family go
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back many centuries
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and really are a part of British
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history he had arrived from England in n
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on the 4th of November 2004 the purpose
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of the visit was to meet his third wife
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Jamila bar from whom he wanted a divorce
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so that he could marry for a fourth time
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to another woman he'd met nardia
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Hawk he visited a fortune teller oddly
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enough
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he confided in the fortune tell his
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desire to divorce and start a new life
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with this woman and the visit ended with
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the fortune teller saying that happiness
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lies ahead for
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you the day he's due to go to meet
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Jamila he's in the bar of the hotel at a
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Hilton hotel in K's the ban serves the
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Earl his second drink of the day at at
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11:00 in the morning when the ear
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receives a phone call and the remark he
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makes to the barman is I have to go and
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see somebody but leave the drink there
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I'll be back he then walks out of the
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hotel and that is the last time anybody
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saw the Earl
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alive my involvement with a case was in
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2004 a file landed on my desk in the
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office in relation to inquiries that
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needed to be done by the French police a
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missing person inquiry the file related
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to The Disappearance of Anthony Ashley
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Cooper the Earl of
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Shaftsbury I was in London when I first
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heard of The Disappearance of Lord chy
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clearly somebody's
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disappearance is uh interesting at all
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times but if you've got a peer of the
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realm who is missing in strange
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circumstances it becomes even more
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interesting for obvious
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reasons so the police in Sussex and the
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police in Dorset were tasked to go and
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speak to the family to family members to
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speak to business associates to get as
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much background as possible on the ear
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his movements and any place that he may
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well be that could be traced to
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Lord shpi was an old etonian he'd been
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to Oxford he lived uh on a country of
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State the Earl had two sons Anthony and
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Nicholas the shrey family are part of
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British aristocracy they were very well
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to
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do a flamboyant Lord some did a lot of
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character with a lot of influence a lot
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of friends and crucially a lot of money
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houses uh all over the world huge uh
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easy access to to Ready Cash uh this was
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a a
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fortune which in total was worth many
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millions of pounds even on the values
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then and would have been worth a lot
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more now the Earl was essentially a good
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man with many many fine qualities he was
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philanthropic he was very active in
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conservation he'd been honored his
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family had a noble tradition of Humane
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causes he was just the kind of person
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who would find Escape in
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Cosmopolitan moneyed sophisticated area
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full of people from uh all over the
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world uh enjoying themselves drinking
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very expens of champagne eating Cordon
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blur
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meals staying in magnificent
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hotels finding pleasure
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everywhere he is somebody who could fly
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anywhere he wanted in the world he could
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go and see old friends he might go and
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have a lot to drink sleep in for a day
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or two and so for that reason there was
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no real worry to begin
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with the Sussex police sent a report to
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the French
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police and more aspect of his lifestyle
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became apparent I had a copy of that um
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and it was fairly obvious from the
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contents of that report of the people
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they've spoken to that the Earl uh led a
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very hedonistic Life Style there was
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certainly alcohol involved in his life
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uh to the point I think where it would
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be fair to say that he was an alcoholic
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and this really should have rung alarm
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Bells right at the very
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start there was a lots of slight
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relationship by slight relationships I
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mean ones that aren't based on a great
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deal apart from a great deal of
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money so if I had to describe the Earl's
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lifestyle I would definitely say
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extravagance and decadence so he had a
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reputation for being a bit of a
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socialite bit of a partygoer he had a
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string of relationships with women he
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would bestow upon them expensive Jewelry
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and
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Gifts so there we have incredibly good
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living the uh ability to be able to buy
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what he wanted whether it was a new
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house a new car or D I say a new
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girlfriend that is a classic example of
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the massive Danger
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of unlimited inherited
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wealth it's part of the pattern that the
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Earl has had throughout all his life he
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seems to meet beautiful women is smitten
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and then there's a roller coaster ride
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because he has money and he Bank rolls
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and they lead a high
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life if a woman in his life who he had
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married or had been spending a lot of
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time with wasn't very happy with him and
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was attacking him in whatever way he
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could just say look I'll buy you a house
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I'll buy you a car I'll give some money
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to your relatives and of course this was
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absolutely
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disastrous I think it would be fair to
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say that initially in the first few days
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the family were not particularly worried
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when the Earl wasn't in contact with him
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despite his lifestyle and the fact that
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he would not contact them for several
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days he had this apparent tendency to go
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off unannounced out of contact it was
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unlikely to completely disappear for
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more than a day or two before people
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started getting extremely worried about
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him for him then to not have contact for
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several days in itself was not unusual
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But after those few days had gone his
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family they would generally have some
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contact it was only when that period of
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time started to grow and of course uh it
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was inevitably one of the women in his
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life nardia was spending a lot of time
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with the ear by this point in his life
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and she clearly became seriously worried
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his family who by then were expressing
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extreme concern about his
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whereabouts so Nadia orc mentioned this
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to Lord Char's a lawyer in the south of
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France and the lawyer thought well look
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there's something going on here it's
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looking extremely worrying and so he
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went to the police on the 15th and then
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we were looking at a missing person's
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inquiry and then everything could be
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done to try and find the
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Lord the initial thoughts were that he
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had done what he done in the past he's
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gone on a Bender drinking drugs women
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and he would turn up eventually and then
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as the T go by the family we starting to
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become
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concerned the media was becoming very
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interested in this story for obvious
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reasons a peer of the realm had gone
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missing in France from a family which is
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really a part of British history
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somebody
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who was a significant figure and because
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he was missing to begin with people were
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working out theories as to why he might
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be missing I think everywhere in the
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world captured the
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imagination as part of the investigation
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you have to look at the wealth that's
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involved here because that could be a
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motive for an abduction or a murder the
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apartment that the Earl owned in
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Versailles um he'd furnished with3
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Million worth of Arts antique furniture
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alone and it will be a fair assumption
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that criminal Enterprise Russian mafia
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North African gangs will become involved
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because to kidnap the Earl and demand a
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ransom would certainly be a huge payout
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a missing ear inevitably leads to
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conspiracy theories look at the case of
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British ear Lord Lucan he went missing
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in the
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1970s we still regularly hear conspiracy
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theories about him very early on I got
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the impression that the missing uh Lord
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charby was turning into another Lord
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Lucan type case all the ingredients were
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there last seen in a beautiful part of
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France let's not forget about
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that a whole range of just total
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off-the-wall
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speculation um that would have had the
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effect of muddying the waters for the
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French police and their investigative
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process and so it was inevitable that
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all these theories came out and they
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were all
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investigated and of course all these
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theories came to
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nothing but what we do know is that he
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had plans to visit his estranged wife
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and again alarm Bell should have been
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ringing he's getting
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divorced let's look at the
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wife he had a ponchon for foreign women
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his first wife was a entian banker's
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daughter second wife u a Swedish
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ambassador's daughter and then we had
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jam and
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bar so Jamila and barck was born in lens
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in France and she had a Moroccan father
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and a Tunisian mother she was one of
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seven siblings her father was a cooner
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of Tunisian origin by all accounts was
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not a particularly happy
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childhood she eventually persuades her
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mother
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that she should go to Switzerland so she
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could learn languages and she goes there
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with her
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sister in Switzerland Jamila very
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quickly drops out of Education she's
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found the high life she's found clubs
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casinos Jamila then met and married a
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wealthy Dutch businessman he had two
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children but unfortunately the marriage
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fell through and she left with the kids
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and to support herself after her divorce
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she started working as a high-end escort
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so her clients would include
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high-profile people and the
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wealthy they travel to France to K's and
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then one day she gets a call from a
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fellow colleague of hers who had an
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arrangement to meet the L of shury in
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Versailles at his apartment and she's
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not able to make that so she asked
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Jamilla if she can do that
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appointment which she duly
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does the ear met janilla just before
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2002 and she fitted his um ideal female
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company to a
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te there's no doubt about it they
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enjoyed each other's
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company it will be fair to say at this
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point at that first initial meeting the
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Earl is absolutely SM Mitten with Jamila
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she's beautiful she's exotic the type of
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woman that he
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likes he makes concerted efforts for
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them to be together to the extent within
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a matter of weeks they move to
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ks he buys an apartment there for her
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and him and her two children from a
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previous
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marriage of course when Lord Char's
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family found out that he was not just
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seeing a call girl but he actually
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wanted to marry her and turn her into
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lady
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shpr now the marriage between the Earl
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and jimiller took place in the
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Netherlands in November
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2002 if you look at it from Jim Miller's
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perspective this is now this wonderful
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lifestyle she's married into British
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aristocracy there are the trappings of
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wealth a huge country
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estate they have apartments in
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France and it's almost as if all her
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Christmases have come together in one
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moment but the family reject her there
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was certainly one occasion in a
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restaurant in London where the Earl
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introduces Jamila to his two
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sons um Anthony and Nicholas and Anthony
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St storms out of the restaurant and
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refuses to
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meet his father's new
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wife the Carries On with his lifestyle
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even though he's married he's drinking
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heavily and he will go drinking for days
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and days on
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end when it became clear that there was
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a lot of antagonism between them they
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couldn't function as a married couple
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and indeed that Lord charp was seeing
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other women the ear this point in time
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has a girlfriend uh a French woman
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called Nadia
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or and when that happened clearly Jam
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found out what was going on and that was
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hugely
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combustible Jam was hugely angry one
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might even say jealous of the new woman
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in uh Lord shp's life there are
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arguments developing but in the same
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breath the Earl as a wedding present has
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bought her another property a mill
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further down the coast there are cars
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that are given to her but there are
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already Rifts very quickly coming into
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the
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relationship and then the marriage
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between Jamila and the Earl breaks down
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it's no huge surprise to me the Earl
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already had a long string of failed
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relationships and marriages and I think
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there were a number of factors I think
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some of it was the ear's behavior but
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also some of jamila's behavior as well
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so she had apparently lied about being
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pregnant and when the Earl found out
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about this he would have been upset
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jamila's lie about being pregnant seems
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to me like a desperate attempt to keep
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the Earl interested in their
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relationship the whole thing really
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started to disintegrate in a very
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serious
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manner certainly by 2004 the marriage
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was at an end and the ear eventually
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started to file for divorce from Jamila
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what is happening at this point is his
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solicitor has made an offer to Jamila in
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relation to the divorce she's asking for
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a fairly substantial amount of money in
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a divorce settlement um which is being
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rejected and this of course is a point
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of
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conflict the police made this rather
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exceptional appeal for information into
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the um whereabouts of the ear of
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chasbury who had been missing for by
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then a couple of weeks there was s a
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possibility that Lord shpi was going
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through a particularly unhappy stage in
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his life and just wanted to disappear
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himself just get away from it all
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nothing was ruled out the very fact he's
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only been married for a year should have
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rung at least a very small investigation
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Bell that should have peaked their
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investigative
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curiosity regardless of
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whether there is the appearance of a
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distressed worried
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wife we know that on the 4th of November
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the Earl travels back to France to try
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and sort out some details of the divorce
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and he contacts jimila and tells her
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that he will be contacting her coming
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around to see her the next day to sort
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out some details involving the
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divorce she had claims on other
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properties of his which were dotted
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around France and uh in the UK and
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Ireland Lord Shaftsbury was paying his
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wife the equivalent of about 10,000 e
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each month and she also had this flat
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which was duplex in
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superan worth more than million
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euros all the uh ins and outs of the
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settlement were meant to be agreed and
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then he was going to go
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home back to Britain what inevitably
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happened instead was that of course he
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disappeared
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in terms of how Jamila reacted when the
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news broke that the Earl was missing
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this was exactly what one might expect
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she was really
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upset she was inconsolable
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distraught uh barely coherent I felt and
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the only thing I remember her saying
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which was quotable was that uh she was
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as worried as anyone about his
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disappearance we have this period when
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the early is last seen on on the 5th of
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November he was due to return from n
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having completed the mission which was
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to confirm that he wished to divorce
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that he wished to extricate himself from
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the expensive Financial Arrangements he
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had with
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Jamila the had been missing for several
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weeks now and had no contact and it's
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out of character I think you've got to
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now say quite
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categorically that the ear is more than
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likely come to some
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harm the police focused on Jamila
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mabarak uh his
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wife at the time lord shpi was missing
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Jamila was acting in a very eccentric
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strange way
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Jam leaves France and travels to the
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Netherlands and to
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Germany her brother lives in Germany she
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travels
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there then she goes to
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Switzerland and then eventually to
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Tunisia to her family there she was
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darting around uh all over the world
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there were visits to Turkey to Germany
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and to other parts uh of Europe right up
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till February
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2005 when she booked herself
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into uh a place where she was looked
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after
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psychologically we know that Jamila
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checked herself into a psychiatric unit
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it's a bit hard to know exactly what was
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going on because the details are sparse
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but to me there's a few different
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distinct possibilities it could be that
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she was genuinely quite quite upset in
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her mental state and she wasn't coping
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related to the ear going missing or it
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could be that she'd been guilty of
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something and she couldn't take the
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pressure which led to a breakdown and
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this really is where the Breakthrough
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comes in the French investigation when
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Jamila was in this psychiatric unit she
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was having conversations on the
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telephone with her
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sister there were clearly suspicions by
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this time
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and the police applied to bug her
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phone this is very common in France it's
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not that difficult to persuade a judge
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to um be able to bug somebody's
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phone when the police listen to the
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recording sometimes they're speaking uh
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in Arabic sometimes in French they're
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speaking in low voices in Whispers
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she mentioned money which she had
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transferred to her
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brother at some point Jamila has given
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her brother Muhammad €150,000
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and she also talked to her sister about
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her intention of blaming her brother for
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the
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death there was an argu arents to her
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house the argument was in relation
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apparently to some money that the ear
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allegedly owed to Muhammad Jamil's
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brother when she returned to the room
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she says the O was dead
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and Muhammad the brother was saying it
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was an
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accident he had taken the old's body
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into his BMW car and driven it off she'd
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gone in her car and followed him for
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some distance and then stopped while
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he'd actually then gone and dumped the
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body and then they' both returned to the
00:26:09
house so if we think about why Jamila
00:26:12
opened up to her sister why she made
00:26:14
these confessions it could be simply
00:26:16
that she just trusted her sister or it
00:26:18
could be that Jilla was just filled with
00:26:20
this this anxiety and this guilt about
00:26:22
what she did and she just needed to let
00:26:25
go of that she needed to disperse these
00:26:27
emotions and sister was a natural
00:26:30
partner to do this
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with the bugging work extremely well it
00:26:39
has to be said they completely caught
00:26:43
janilla
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unaware that recording in the hospital
00:26:48
now gives them something to ask Jamila
00:26:51
something to put to her about the
00:26:54
whereabouts of the year and the 5th of
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November 200 for we use a method called
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ABC you accept nothing you believe
00:27:04
nothing and you check
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everything J clearly realized that a
00:27:14
great deal of evidence was being built
00:27:16
up against her and she made that jump
00:27:20
which alleged criminals often do from
00:27:24
dying everything to mitigating to not
00:27:28
saying look I didn't do it I had nothing
00:27:29
to do with it I don't know what you're
00:27:31
talking about but to saying well look
00:27:34
okay perhaps I was involved but I wasn't
00:27:36
really involved because because because
00:27:39
and this is what she started doing in
00:27:40
this case interviewing a homicide
00:27:44
suspect involves a
00:27:46
strategy it
00:27:48
involves if at all possible asking
00:27:52
questions to the person that you already
00:27:55
know the answer to and in that that way
00:27:59
not only are you finding out when
00:28:02
they're lying but also what they're
00:28:04
lying
00:28:07
about she described this meeting back in
00:28:12
November
00:28:14
204 as one that was an important uh
00:28:17
meeting to sort out her future to sort
00:28:20
out where Lord Char's money would be
00:28:23
going and Muhammad had turned up
00:28:28
there was an argument between Lord
00:28:31
charpy and Muhammad and then it sounded
00:28:35
very much as though Muhammad had killed
00:28:39
Lord
00:28:41
Char although she did say that it was an
00:28:45
accident that uh he was an older man of
00:28:48
course Muhammad was a much stronger
00:28:51
younger man and everything had got out
00:28:53
of hand that there was this terrible
00:28:56
argument Lord SHP ended up with a broken
00:28:59
neck and died her main line of argument
00:29:04
was that Muhammad was to blame for what
00:29:07
had happened and not
00:29:11
her so we know that Jamila confessed to
00:29:15
the police but the natural question is
00:29:17
why I mean it could just be genuine
00:29:19
guilt and remorse or it could be that
00:29:22
she realized that there was an Evidence
00:29:24
trail that was being built and that the
00:29:26
the hands of the LA were literally
00:29:29
squeezing around her and she realized
00:29:31
that now was the time to try and shift
00:29:33
as much blame as possible onto her
00:29:38
brother she claimed that her brother
00:29:42
Muhammad had battered him to
00:29:46
death that was the obvious breakthrough
00:29:49
the
00:29:50
jima's
00:29:52
earliest admissions that she was present
00:29:55
when the ill died allbe it that she was
00:29:58
was presenting her own role in innocent
00:30:00
terms after putting Muhammad in the
00:30:04
frame it was pretty clear that Muhammad
00:30:09
was in a great deal of trouble Jamila
00:30:12
had really turned him into the number
00:30:15
one suspect in the
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case police moved immediately meaning of
00:30:25
course that Muhammad couldn't be briefed
00:30:29
as to what uh Jamila had been saying
00:30:32
about him so immediately Muhammad was
00:30:35
arrested in
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Munich it was just a day later that
00:30:41
Muhammad was in turn arrested in Germany
00:30:44
and quickly expedited to France Lord
00:30:49
Char or dare I say Lord Char's body was
00:30:53
still missing
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we now have a
00:31:05
situation where Jamila and Muhammad
00:31:09
arrested and they're being interviewed
00:31:11
and it's the comparison of those stories
00:31:14
as well that is vital to the
00:31:19
investigation his approach initially was
00:31:23
to deny everything that's often what
00:31:25
happens when uh Criminal are implicated
00:31:29
in very serious crimes he initially
00:31:32
tells police that his sister is crazy uh
00:31:35
and he wasn't involved whatsoever
00:31:37
because he flew back to France on the
00:31:40
4th of November and this was proved and
00:31:42
he spent the the day in the next days
00:31:45
with his family the problem is that the
00:31:48
French police quickly proved that having
00:31:51
flown back to Munich he then got in his
00:31:54
car a BMW and then drove from Munich all
00:31:58
the way back down to
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K's the police in France were very quick
00:32:08
to establish Beyond doubt in their minds
00:32:13
that Muhammad's story of not even being
00:32:16
in France when the Earl was murdered
00:32:20
simply wasn't true they did this through
00:32:22
phone records of which show that he was
00:32:25
indeed in France and gone back to Munich
00:32:29
as quickly as he
00:32:34
could the police start to do sell site
00:32:37
analysis on Muhammad's phone and also on
00:32:42
jamilla's phone and what they find is on
00:32:46
the day of the murder in tracking those
00:32:49
phones they both go from KS South
00:32:54
following the bay around and then in
00:32:57
land
00:32:58
Jamila stops about 3 or 4 miles away
00:33:03
from where Muhammed eventually ends up
00:33:07
and having got those locations the
00:33:09
police are then able to focus some
00:33:12
searching and it was three phone
00:33:14
triangulation that they came up with
00:33:17
this spot in to surir in a huge National
00:33:21
Park the obvious inference being is that
00:33:25
because they've driven out into the
00:33:28
valleys and Ravines and the French
00:33:31
Riviera but that is most likely where
00:33:35
they have deposited the 's
00:33:40
body
00:33:42
Jamila has insisted that she didn't
00:33:45
help with the disposal of the
00:33:48
body Jamila has always said she stopped
00:33:52
before the issue you will have is that
00:33:55
whilst both vehicles stop you have
00:33:58
no proof that Jamila stayed in her car
00:34:02
while Muhammad drove and deposited the
00:34:04
body on his own equally you don't have
00:34:07
any evidence that Jamila got out of her
00:34:10
car left the phone in the car and went
00:34:13
with Muhammad to deposit the body
00:34:15
because they both returned together
00:34:18
having picked up her car because of the
00:34:21
sside analysis the police now have an
00:34:23
area where they can focus their
00:34:25
searching 5 months after the O
00:34:28
disappeared they discovered at the
00:34:30
bottom of the Ravine the decomposed and
00:34:33
skeletal remains of a human
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being and it was down a gully very
00:34:46
difficult to find the kind of place that
00:34:48
most people would steer clear of uh it's
00:34:51
normally uh very hot weather down there
00:34:54
very isolated lots of bracken Lots of uh
00:34:58
dumping of litter and whatever down
00:35:01
there not the kind of place you would
00:35:02
normally be looking for
00:35:06
anybody the body had been left uh at the
00:35:11
bottom of a gully wild animals had been
00:35:14
picking at it he had been dressed in one
00:35:18
of his suits and the thought of this
00:35:21
distinguish uh English gentleman uh
00:35:25
ending his days in such horrible
00:35:28
circumstances he could only be
00:35:29
identified in the end through
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DNA the level of decomposition 5 months
00:35:38
it makes causes of death difficult
00:35:41
there'll be a level of decomposition
00:35:43
that means that any uh injuries to the
00:35:45
flesh would not be there um you would
00:35:49
not be able to see them um because that
00:35:52
will mostly have gone um what you're
00:35:54
relying on really are bony and cartilage
00:35:59
injuries there's always huge shock when
00:36:02
a body is found in any missing person
00:36:07
inquiry criminal inquiry uh by this
00:36:10
stage and in this case there was huge
00:36:14
amount of shock but people by this time
00:36:17
were still hoping against hope that this
00:36:19
very moneyed individual somebody who
00:36:22
could potentially turn up anywhere in
00:36:25
the world under their own Steam
00:36:28
might suddenly be
00:36:31
found that it took a full 11 days to
00:36:35
identify this mangle corpse dumped at
00:36:39
the bottom uh of a
00:36:42
valley then as a result of DNA analysis
00:36:46
it's identified of that of Anthony
00:36:50
Ashley Cooper the 10th Earl of Shel spry
00:37:00
what they discovered during the
00:37:01
postmortem was the cartridges in the
00:37:06
ear's throat had been fractured had been
00:37:10
ruptured and that generally occurs
00:37:14
during manual strangulation in other
00:37:17
words where something has being put
00:37:18
around their neck and squeezed tightly
00:37:21
and that causes those cartilages that
00:37:24
are more delicate than bones
00:37:28
to actually
00:37:29
fracture and that is just
00:37:33
indicative of manual
00:37:35
strangulation and that is what the cause
00:37:38
of death
00:37:39
was but clearly this was proof that Lord
00:37:45
trpr had not only disappeared in
00:37:47
horrific circumstances but had clearly
00:37:50
died in horrific circumstances as
00:37:54
well both jiller and mammad they're both
00:37:58
charged with the murder of the Earl and
00:38:01
they're remanded in custody to appear in
00:38:08
court so the case finally came to trial
00:38:11
in May 2007 there are no pleas in French
00:38:16
criminal trials it was pretty clear that
00:38:20
the two defendant didn't consider
00:38:23
themselves to be guilty but it became
00:38:25
again pretty clear once they gave their
00:38:27
teses in court and they were
00:38:30
cross-examined that they considered
00:38:32
themselves to be
00:38:36
innocent we had the um recorded evidence
00:38:40
of the phone taps in which Jim quite
00:38:43
clearly talks about the the way in which
00:38:46
the old died paying her brother a large
00:38:49
sum of
00:38:50
money and in fact she paid him a
00:38:53
substantial amount of money around
00:38:54
€150,000
00:38:58
and she intending to blame her brother
00:39:01
for his death and we had the evidence
00:39:05
quickly proved by the police which
00:39:08
shattered The Alibi of her brother he
00:39:11
made this 24-hour round trip uh Munich
00:39:15
purely to give himself uh an alibi there
00:39:19
is evidence of
00:39:22
premeditation the events beforehand the
00:39:25
cell site analysis around location where
00:39:28
the 's bodies eventually found the
00:39:31
flying away to Munich he then got in his
00:39:34
car a BMW and then drove from Munich all
00:39:37
the way back down to K's covertly you
00:39:41
could say why not just fly back but I
00:39:44
think there is certainly evidence there
00:39:47
of
00:39:49
premeditation
00:39:52
premeditation in the end wasn't that
00:39:56
difficult for the police to prove move I
00:39:58
mean initially it had been a difficult
00:40:00
investigation but I think the pieces
00:40:02
fell into place quite steadily and uh in
00:40:06
a way which they left the culprit with
00:40:09
very little viable defense the fact that
00:40:13
they had been at the site where they
00:40:15
dumped the body early on and that they
00:40:19
had spoken on the phone about uh sorting
00:40:23
out Lord charby and indeed money had
00:40:26
been paid and of course the key bit of
00:40:29
evidence that Lord try had actually died
00:40:32
in horrible circumstances this is what
00:40:34
gave them the right they felt to
00:40:37
prosecute a premeditated murder the
00:40:41
defense argued will look um they had
00:40:44
every right to all meet up to discuss uh
00:40:47
where all the money was going things got
00:40:49
ugly this was their final defense and as
00:40:52
happens with domestic arguments things
00:40:54
got out of hand and uh a death was a
00:40:58
result but that death wasn't
00:41:00
premeditated it wasn't a murder it was a
00:41:03
tragic
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accident of course during the trial
00:41:14
Jamila continued to portray herself in
00:41:16
the same way so she was this grieving
00:41:19
Widow but we also learned during the
00:41:21
trial that she had made active attempts
00:41:25
to find out what was in the Earl's will
00:41:27
so specifically what properties what uh
00:41:31
finances she would lose if the marriage
00:41:33
had ended so to me her outward behavior
00:41:37
is all deceitful it's all manipulative
00:41:39
she knew exactly what she was doing
00:41:41
Jamila was tearful in in in court um
00:41:45
maintaining her innocence of uh any
00:41:48
deliberate act uh to cause her husband's
00:41:51
death uh Muhammad was sometimes very
00:41:55
agitated aggressive he turned on the
00:41:58
family at one stage blaming them
00:42:00
shouting at them and saying you're the
00:42:02
rich you're responsible for this of
00:42:05
course what he was doing was showing off
00:42:08
his temper and showing off how angry he
00:42:10
could become and that didn't do his
00:42:13
defense any good at all the climax of
00:42:15
the case was the Friday
00:42:21
night on the 26th of May the jury
00:42:26
retired 2 hours later just 2 hours they
00:42:29
came back with a unanimous verdict of
00:42:32
guilty both Muhammad and Jamila mbarak
00:42:37
found guilty of the murder of Anthony
00:42:40
Ashley Cooper the 10th Earl of
00:42:44
shury both were sentenced to 25 years
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imprisonment the end of a trial and
00:42:55
certainly the conviction of people who
00:42:57
have been involved in the death of a
00:42:59
loved one will always come as as a great
00:43:03
sense of relief and and justice for the
00:43:07
uh for the family and the 's family is
00:43:10
no different in that respect for them
00:43:13
there was an element of closure it's an
00:43:17
overworked emotion but it it exists in
00:43:20
terms of my final thoughts for this case
00:43:23
to me it is just a picture of what can
00:43:26
potentially happen when two two
00:43:27
Different Worlds Collide so on the one
00:43:29
hand you've got Hedonism you've got
00:43:32
decadence you've got money and wealth
00:43:34
and boastfulness on the other hand
00:43:36
you've got poverty and Desperation which
00:43:39
obviously can breed jealousy so I think
00:43:42
this just shows what the potential
00:43:44
consequences of that can be this was
00:43:47
certainly one of the more memorable such
00:43:50
cases uh partly because of where it
00:43:53
happened the uh obvious glamour of uh
00:43:56
the south of France and the involvement
00:43:59
of
00:44:00
nobility and uh the the mismatch of a
00:44:04
victim and culprit but it it's not a
00:44:08
case I'll easily forget this is
00:44:11
certainly one of the most fascinating
00:44:13
and indeed tragic and sad uh cases I've
00:44:17
covered in my career I think it had such
00:44:21
a tragic Arc to it really Lord shapre I
00:44:25
have to say I've never met him before
00:44:28
his death but he came across as a great
00:44:31
character as a very affable and
00:44:33
interesting man despite his uh personal
00:44:37
problems there was some sympathy for the
00:44:39
Mubarak family they came from a very
00:44:42
hard tough uh immigrant background all
00:44:46
these sort of story lines all clashing
00:44:49
together in what turned out to be a
00:44:52
hugely tragic and indeed compelling case
00:44:56
and we saw it's uh all very clear what
00:44:59
had happened from the beginning right
00:45:01
through to the end this case to
00:45:04
me is immensely interesting from a
00:45:08
professional investigator perspective
00:45:10
but also now as an
00:45:13
academic it has everything it has
00:45:16
multiple jurisdictions it has sex it has
00:45:20
money it has
00:45:23
murder and they all Mill together
00:45:28
it's what makes it an interesting
00:45:30
case there is a saying that uh money is
00:45:34
the root of all evil and in actual fact
00:45:37
that saying is not
00:45:39
correct the correct saying is the love
00:45:42
of money is the root of all evil and I
00:45:45
think that's what we have in this
00:45:47
case the Love of Money
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