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in February 2016
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CCTV on a residential street in North
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Shields Tyne and Weir in the north of
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England captured 43 year old Jimmy Prout
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being manhandled by a group of locals
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just three days after this footage was
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captured Jimmy would be dead the CCTV
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images are very clear they show his
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rapid decline in health the fact that
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he's being manipulated and controlled by
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other people it's clear he's just being
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used as some sort of punching bag the
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women shoving Jimmy were all loyal
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followers of a man who led a cult-like
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group in the small neighborhood 43 year
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old zahid Zaman the level of Terror and
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torture it is subjected to me proud to
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over a prolonged period of time this was
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a profoundly challenged man who needed
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help but he fell into the hands and the
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devil
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for four months Jimmy Prout was brutally
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tortured and humiliated by the man and
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his devotees before the poisonous sect
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imploded all pointing the finger of
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suspicion at each other ultimately the
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evidence demonstrated Beyond doubts that
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zahid Zaman was the central heart of
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this group and that he was the
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ringleader behind the violence that was
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used towards Jimmy
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zaheed's a man the false prophet had
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been exposed as one of the world's most
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evil killers
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foreign
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2017 zaheed Zaman was on trial for the
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murder of Jimmy Prout the man and his
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friends K rayworth Myra wood
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and Ann Corbett had slowly tortured 43
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year old Jimmy after Zaman had
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apparently recruited him to his
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cult-like clan
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Paul greeny led the prosecution against
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the group
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there are combination of factors that
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make this case so particularly
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disturbing
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first of all the fact that a vulnerable
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man was subject to grotesque beatings
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over a period of time and to other
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humiliations
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the fact that zahid Zaman was able to
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persuade others to engage in those
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beatings
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and the fun that it was all to do with
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something that was so trivial the man
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believed Jimmy had been involved in the
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theft of some of his tools and this led
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the 43 year old to turn on the
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vulnerable father of two journalist
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Jeremy Armstrong covered the trial at
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Newcastle Crown Court
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when you listen to cases like this which
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are so extreme in the nature of the
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violence is so extreme and you know to
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use torture in any context is
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inexplicable but saman was just a
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particularly evil man who enjoyed
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manipulating people and using violence
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to control people and there was no good
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reason to do that to Jimmy above and
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beyond the fact that he could
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I've been involved in cases that have
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involved truly terrible killings so I've
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seen some bad people
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and zahid Zaman is up there
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one of quite possibly the most
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manipulative
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controlling and terrible people I've
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ever encountered
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this killer Story begins on the 19th of
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December 1973 but not much is known
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about zaheed's a man's past
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it would be fair to say that zaman's
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background is fairly shadowy
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we do know that he lived in Sheffield
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he was according to him injured at one
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point in a quote serious traffic
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accident
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we knew that he had joined dating
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websites and we knew that he had posted
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extravagant claims about himself on
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those websites for example posting
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photographs of himself alongside gold
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bullion
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this tells me this is somebody who wants
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to put across the idea that he's wealthy
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that money is something that is
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important to him
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it was a tactic that worked by 2005 31
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year olds a man had met a woman from
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North Shields near Newcastle 44 year old
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K rayworth they began a relationship
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after meeting on Facebook it must have
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been reasonably serious for him to move
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all the way from Sheffield
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the man was most definitely not
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genuinely looking for love I think when
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he came across rayworth and realized
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that she had property that parasite
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within him activated and he decided
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right I'm gonna go up there I'm going to
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move in with her and I'm going to stake
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my claim on the things that she has
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foreign North Shields resident Helen
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O'Keefe was an acquaintance of raywas
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I've known care for a long time and you
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are before she got involved
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with it with zed as we call him
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um and you are before that
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she was
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distant
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oh she was a carer she was lovely
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she was a genuine named person was
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and that all changed
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once you got involved with him she
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seemed more withdrawn and she did lose a
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lot of contact with people
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there's a man settled into the area and
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soon had a notorious reputation around
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the town
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I don't recall that there was evidence
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that established that zaheed's a man
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worked at any staged during the time
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that he lived in the north Shields area
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there was evidence that he claimed
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benefits causing real difficulties for
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those of the benefits office there was
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evidence that he relied upon Charities
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again treating those who were the
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charity in an unpleasant way
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there did seem to be this perception of
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fear of him on one occasion you know
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neighbors did report that he was seen
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hitting K with his stick
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tells me that the man thinks that this
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is something completely reasonable to do
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he doesn't see it as something that is
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unacceptable as something that is
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illegal so his behavior towards her is
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very revealing about his kind of
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boundaries around what's acceptable and
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what's not acceptable
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those boundaries would continue to be
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pushed as a man's physical health
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appeared to deteriorate he went from
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walking with crutches to being
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wheelchair bound but rumors amongst
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locals suggest he may have been
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embellishing his injuries he certainly
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had the ability to spin a good story I
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think he probably convinced a lot of
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people that he was a lot more disabled
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than he was
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the locals in his area of North Shields
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found him argumentative
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tempestuous and also to put it politely
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a fraud because they said couldn't walk
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and yet a couple of them actually
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remember him running for a bus
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that's a miracle it was just like it was
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just a standard thing with him or he has
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the miracle of the walking Miracle as
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soon as the bus comes out was it
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local resident Helen also had a run-in
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with Zaman
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I was doing care work but I was helping
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the community at the time
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and my car was off the road so I was
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waiting outside in the gate to get
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picked up and Zed was coming along with
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key and all the bins were out ready for
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collection
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and he was deliberately with his chair
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he was deliberately driving into the
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bins not when the bins down
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but obviously he didn't do men because I
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was standing there
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and I says well why did you do that and
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then he started giving me a mouth I was
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a [ __ ] I was all sorts
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so that's when yet another argument had
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started in the street
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you know and it was just he thought he
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could confront people and nobody would
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say anything back
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he's the neighbor from hell he's
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confrontational he's antagonistic and
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when he has an altercation with somebody
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he's not just going to let it go he's
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someone who's something of a grievance
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collector so when somebody wrongs him he
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will react in an entirely
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disproportionate way
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there's a man went to elaborate lengths
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to get revenge on someone he felt had
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wronged him
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one thing that evidences how vindictive
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was a letter that he forged from a
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housing officer which was full of racist
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slurs now he'd taken offense at her when
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he hadn't got the benefits that he felt
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entitled to so he engages in this
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campaign against her
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basically use the letterhead which this
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woman had written to him and invented a
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letter where she was being racist and
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abusive towards him and then reported
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her for that racist abuse which was
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obviously uncovered as being fig and
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being false but I think the good of
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those kind of lens and to do that in
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order to carry out revenge on an
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official who he barely knew just built
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for some perceived slight over something
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incredibly mundane gives you an idea of
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what a dangerous and deceitful and
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manipulative man he was really
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but 39 year old zaheed's a man was more
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manipulative than anyone could possibly
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imagine and his ability to lure people
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into his world was just beginning to
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become apparent
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Zaman was in the relationship with k-ray
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worth but then later on he started an
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online relationship with Myra wood who
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then moved into a local address as well
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Myra wood was in her 50s we are not
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talking about impressionable teenagers
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we're talking about women of maturity
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and of considerable intelligence
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it would have been a gradual chipping
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away at these women making them feel
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dependent upon Him of making them feel
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valuable and worthy when perhaps they
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wouldn't have felt that way previously
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in their lives he really is an
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accomplished Predator he knows exactly
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the things to say to people to bring
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them into his fold
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and it wasn't just women that saman was
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recruiting another North Shields
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resident who would fall under the
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cult-like leader's spell was Jimmy Prout
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here's the six of eight children and as
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a result of his father working away
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quite a bit his mum was left with the
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responsibility for the family which I
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think she struggled with at times
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his mum quite understandably found it
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difficult to cope with eight children
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that meant that both Jimmy and some of
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his siblings spent periods of time in
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care during his childhood and there was
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little doubt that that was something
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that Jimmy had found difficult
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he was a father of two he struggled for
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work really so he worked odd jobs I
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think it'd be fair to say it was kind of
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on the periphery of society in the sense
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that he spent some time homeless I think
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and also was a regular user of food
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banks and unfortunately he came under
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the influence over Saeed Salam
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although it's not known exactly how they
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met at some point Jimmy Prout
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unfortunately crossed paths with zaheed
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Zaman the indications were that zahid
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Zaman wished to surround himself with
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people who were subservient to him who
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would do what he wanted them to do and
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that to that end he was visiting places
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where he knew there would be vulnerable
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people so
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he could recruit them to his group
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thank you
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the evidence didn't establish with
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certainty when it was that Jimmy first
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met saheed as a man but it seemed likely
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that he had met him at some stage
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probably during the course of 2015 when
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Jimmy was visiting soup kitchens and we
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knew that zahidza man was visiting those
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areas seeking as we suggested to
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identify individuals who were vulnerable
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Jimmy joined K rayworth and Myra wood in
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zaman's gang of amateur acolytes the
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group dynamic was striking at the heart
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of the group was saheed saman
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he was very much in control of the the
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others the female members of the group
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were all people with whom he was having
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or had had a relationship and into this
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group came Jimmy a vulnerable individual
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he was a man's lucky
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the fact that Jimmy was the only other
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male in the group is quite a significant
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one
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because the man is somebody who doesn't
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want any challenge to his position to
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his power to his authority so when he
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brings Jimmy into the group it's because
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he's confident that he can control him
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he's confident that he can willpower
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over him
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the final member to join the group was
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24 year old Ann Corbett who met Jimmy at
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a soup kitchen
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the two became close friends despite
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their 18-year age Gap
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and Corbett was the youngest member of
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the group by some distance
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there was no doubt that she'd had a
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difficult background
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that she was vulnerable to some extents
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and she was there for the very kind of
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person that zahid Zaman was seeking to
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incorporate into his group
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by 2015 all five were living in two
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houses on the same street both owned by
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K rayworth she and zaheed Zaman lived in
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one property while just down the road
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Jimmy Myra wood and Ann Corbett shared a
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home in effect they were one household
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under two roofs
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the man invited Jimmy to live at
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rayworth's property now this is a
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classic coercively controlling tactic
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you take somebody away from their
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Community away from their friends and
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family you isolate them you increase
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their dependency upon you and I think
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that's definitely what was going on here
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perhaps he hoped that his relationship
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with Corbett would somehow be his savior
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perhaps he hoped that Zaman would to
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some extent provide him
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with the family that he never really had
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but for whatever reason Jimmy Prout
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became the target
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of this odious cruel malevolent cult
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unbelievably the man who is viewed as an
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aggressive bully to the locals could do
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no wrong in the eyes of the four people
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who seemingly worshiped him behind
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closed doors one of the Striking things
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about the evidence was the extent to
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which there was a difference between the
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way in which he was perceived within the
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community as opposed to the way in which
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he was perceived within his particular
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group
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in the broader Community he was regarded
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as being an irritating and unpleasant
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person
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not an impressive kind of person but
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within his small group he was regarded
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as being really all-powerful
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he was like the ring leader and always
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had to walk behind him there was no way
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could any of them have walked alongside
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him walked in front of him it was always
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though always behind him he wanted that
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respect
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child that were afraid of him
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but they went along with it
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he was Maleficent if he was controlling
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and unfortunately poor Jimmy found
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himself at the focus of that as well you
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know being asked to run errands on his
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behalf to jobs on his behalf that became
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a part of the control of Jimmy early on
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really
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so he was almost a member of the group
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and then he turned against him for the
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most random Mercurial of reasons
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and Corbett had a brother
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came to believe that the brother had
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stolen some tools of his
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not particularly valuable at all
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nonetheless something belonging to
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zaheed Zaman and so he's a man given his
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vengeful personality wanted to get his
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own back but he couldn't get to the
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brother the brother had moved away from
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the area
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he thought that Jimmy had played some
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part in What had happened and so Jimmy
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became the focus for his Vengeance
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progressively the group turned on Jimmy
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and started to not only ask him to do
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things in terms of errands but force him
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to do things using violence then they'll
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all get their violence towards him it
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was very much at the instigation of
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Zaman but that was the kind of control
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which was one of the really strange
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Dynamics and dimensions of this group
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zaheed's a man a man known for his angry
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retaliations focused all his rage on
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Jimmy Prout and this time he had an army
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to do his bidding Jimmy was being abused
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for a prolonged period of time
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and people will ask why didn't he walk
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away
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but the reality is that people who are
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abused
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don't all behave in the same way some do
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run some do complain but there are many
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people who for whatever reason remain
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and Jimmy was one of those people
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nobody knew because even them living in
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that house he had the windows boarded up
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and all that so
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that was odd in itself
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but nobody thought for one minute just
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because the windows were boarded up what
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was going on inside
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he's under the control of this one
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individual who is coercive who is
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controlling and that happens to many
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many people it happens in domestic
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violence situations as well so being an
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adult or being a man or a woman doesn't
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mean you can necessarily walk away
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they'd already got their talons into him
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and they were already controlling him
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Jimmy was tortured over a number of
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months this wasn't just one incident
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this was a series of incidents that took
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place over a significant period of time
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and the man has a very strong sadistic
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streak he quite enjoys seeing people
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suffer he also enjoys taking away
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people's freedom and their Liberty and
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this is essentially what he was doing
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with Jimmy this is textbook coercive
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control it's a gradual chipping away of
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somebody until they're a shell of their
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former self
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obviously we didn't know what was going
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on behind closed doors well you would
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see him and he seemed to look distant he
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wasn't what he was when when he first
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appeared into the group sort of thing he
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seemed very very distant withdrawn and
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he was a bit I got Logan
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that's just a shame
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from the Dark Ages nothing that's really
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appropriate description
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the notion of someone being tortured and
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held in that way for such a long period
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of time and been under the control of
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someone is obviously most unusual most
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extreme and the nature of the torture
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was obscene really
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there were many ways in which Jimmy was
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subject to humiliating treatment
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there was evidence of his teeth haven't
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been removed
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and obviously the real nadir the worst
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of it was when his um
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his testicle was removed and and he was
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forced to
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it was placed in his mouth
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Jimmy was forced to eat his own testicle
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and this shows that even in his sadism
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the man is morbidly creative these are
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things that he would have thought
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through these won't just be things that
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have come up at the spur of the moment
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that he's just decided to do on any
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given day there's quite a level of
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detail that goes into this kind of
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suffering and I think humiliation is
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ultimately the goal here because by
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humiliating Jimmy he's again chipping
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away at his his sense of personhood his
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sense of self and he's 100 in control of
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him
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it is absolutely horrifying
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and yet proud
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doesn't run
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he doesn't go to the police
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he doesn't really know what to do
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on the 27th of November Jimmy Prout took
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himself to North tyneside General
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Hospital but he lied to doctors about
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how he'd sustained his multiple injuries
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people knew that Jimmy was sustaining
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injuries people knew or must have known
00:22:06
that he was sustaining those injuries as
00:22:08
a result of assaults and we know that on
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certainly one occasion he had been to
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hospital
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so why wasn't anything done by the
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people who knew that was happening
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the answer to that question I think in
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part is because zaid's a man was causing
00:22:25
Jimmy to lie about what had happened to
00:22:27
him causing Jimmy to say that a person
00:22:30
or person's other than zahid a man and
00:22:33
his gang were causing those injuries
00:22:35
Jimmy posted pictures of his wounds on
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social media the brutality of his
00:22:41
treatment was clear to see but once
00:22:45
again he didn't say how he'd sustained
00:22:47
the injuries
00:22:49
you can see he's been subjected to
00:22:52
repeated episodes of blunt force trauma
00:22:55
in particular at the top of his shoulder
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for example is a very large bruise
00:23:00
he's also got other bruises which you
00:23:01
can see on his body
00:23:03
that would be consistent with him over
00:23:05
periods of time receiving quite heavy
00:23:08
blows
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the Facebook pictures were just awful
00:23:13
and really vividly showed how badly
00:23:16
beat need being you know I mean we're
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talking about somebody who was
00:23:19
physically uh assaulted on a regular
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basis in order to control them really to
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the point where I think probably was so
00:23:26
weak that he didn't know where to turn
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I would imagine that part of the abuse
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cycle would have been that he wasn't
00:23:35
being fed properly therefore it's most
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likely that he continued to lose weight
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and together with the repeated episodes
00:23:43
of trauma his body would have found it
00:23:45
more and more difficult to heal from
00:23:47
those episodes of trauma
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thank you
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there's always covered up and he always
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wore jackets regardless what the weather
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was
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it was always jackets
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and then I thought much of it at the
00:24:01
time was just that's where he wants to
00:24:02
dress that's it but obviously he was
00:24:04
covering things up oh they were being
00:24:06
recover things up
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the photograph that was most striking
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for me was where he's taken a photograph
00:24:13
of his face and you can see the injuries
00:24:15
on his face but you can also see where
00:24:18
his teeth are missing
00:24:21
he's put these pictures on social media
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he was asking for help he didn't get it
00:24:35
the last time I saw him he was hobbling
00:24:39
and he was very very slow and he had
00:24:41
care and and either side of him I don't
00:24:45
remember the wall
00:24:46
I just thought as he had some kind of
00:24:49
fall as is as he took bad you know is
00:24:52
and that's that's they were helping him
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he was too weak to escape I think it got
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to the stage where the suffering was so
00:25:00
great that he was unable to get away I
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think for a variety of different reasons
00:25:03
not only the injuries but also the kind
00:25:05
of the mental control that the man had
00:25:07
over him the constant beatings and
00:25:10
horrendous torture eventually became too
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much for Jimmy Prout
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by the morning of the 9th of February as
00:25:20
a result of the treatment he'd received
00:25:22
Jimmy was dead
00:25:25
and the defendants knew that this was a
00:25:28
problem for them and they were thinking
00:25:30
only about themselves not about Jimmy
00:25:34
so what they did was to take his body
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place it in sleeping bags and take it in
00:25:43
a wheelchair to a wooded area beside an
00:25:46
a road and dump there's another word for
00:25:49
it his body there
00:25:53
Jimmy Prout is treated like garbage
00:25:56
he is simply thrown away they've had
00:25:59
their fun
00:26:00
gone
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that's the end of that
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he was a victim in the worst possible
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way
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helpless defenseless tortured and in the
00:26:15
end killed
00:26:16
by people whom I think he thought would
00:26:19
be his saviors
00:26:22
the exact reverse was the case
00:26:27
by late March 2016 Jimmy Prout had been
00:26:31
dead for six weeks but nobody knew he
00:26:35
was even missing
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foreign
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there was no formal report by zahid
00:26:44
saman or anyone else within his group of
00:26:46
the fact that Jimmy was missing
00:26:48
but what they were doing was going
00:26:50
around all Shields going around
00:26:52
Newcastle and saying to anyone that
00:26:54
would listen where is Jimmy
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and their purpose was to give the
00:26:59
impression first of all that they were
00:27:01
concerned about him and secondly that he
00:27:04
might still be alive
00:27:07
but behind the boarded up Windows of
00:27:09
zaheed zaman's home there was dissension
00:27:13
in the ranks there was a fracture in the
00:27:15
relationship between Zaman and iron
00:27:16
corbus
00:27:18
saman was concerned that Ann Corbett was
00:27:20
going to confess what had really
00:27:22
happened
00:27:25
he's used to be
00:27:28
to be so when 's case starts to unravel
00:27:31
and that the risk that Corbett is going
00:27:33
to go and tell the authorities about
00:27:35
what happened he needs to get ahead he
00:27:37
needs to get in there first because even
00:27:39
though he's lost control over the series
00:27:42
of events he hasn't lost control over
00:27:44
the narrative he can still craft a story
00:27:46
around this
00:27:49
zaheed Zaman decided to pick up the
00:27:52
phone and dial 999 on the 25th of March
00:27:57
2016.
00:27:59
six weeks after Jimmy had been murdered
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zahid's a man made a telephone call to
00:28:04
the police
00:28:05
in that call he claimed that he had been
00:28:08
attacked by Ann Corbett and that in the
00:28:12
course of what followed she had
00:28:14
confessed to him that she had murdered
00:28:16
Jimmy
00:28:17
the police understand that we went round
00:28:20
to the house where they were confronted
00:28:22
by zahid saman apparently inconsolable
00:28:26
screaming and crying in apparent grief
00:28:30
they found three people there there was
00:28:32
k-ray worth Myra wood and also Zaman all
00:28:36
of them were distressed Zaman was crying
00:28:39
and they were trying to console him
00:28:41
Zaman said that he had asked Anne about
00:28:44
Jimmy Pratt and Anne had said that she
00:28:47
had killed him
00:28:49
the man has an awful lot of power over
00:28:52
these women he is the leader and they
00:28:55
are his followers so he convinces two of
00:28:58
them to go along with the story that
00:29:00
Corbett is the aggressor she's the one
00:29:03
who's caused Jimmy's death so let's all
00:29:06
stick together on this and we throw her
00:29:08
under the bus essentially this shows
00:29:10
that the loyalties within this household
00:29:13
this group are all to the man they are
00:29:15
not to each other
00:29:17
foreign
00:29:18
on the 26th of March 2016 investigators
00:29:23
decided to arrest all four members of
00:29:25
the group
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despite the fact that Jimmy's body
00:29:28
hadn't been found 25 year old Ann
00:29:31
Corbett told detectives about his demise
00:29:35
in her first conversation with the
00:29:37
police
00:29:38
Corbett insists that yes she tried to
00:29:42
strangle Jimmy Prout but hadn't killed
00:29:44
him it was her brother
00:29:47
well the police quickly discovered that
00:29:49
brother was nowhere near that Street in
00:29:51
North Shields when Prout died
00:29:55
at this stage in proceedings Corbett has
00:29:58
been physically separated from the man
00:30:01
for quite some time this is perhaps the
00:30:03
first time that she spent a significant
00:30:05
period of time with other people with
00:30:08
people outside of this cult-like group
00:30:10
and I think that's played a role here in
00:30:13
terms of what she did next so she speaks
00:30:15
to her solicitor and then her story
00:30:17
changes the game so you're starting to
00:30:19
see cracks in the control that the man
00:30:22
has over these women when they're
00:30:24
physically distant from him
00:30:26
on the 27th of March after following Ann
00:30:30
Corbett's directions police discovered
00:30:32
Jimmy's body in a wooded area just
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meters from his home he'd been dead for
00:30:38
more than six weeks
00:30:41
although Jimmy's body was decomposed and
00:30:45
didn't allow the pathologist to identify
00:30:47
cause of death
00:30:48
there were several fractures of various
00:30:51
ages present within the body
00:30:53
he has been subjected to repeated
00:30:55
episodes of violent trauma
00:30:58
the torture which he's been subjected to
00:31:01
is Medieval I mean it's things that you
00:31:03
read in horror books is not really
00:31:05
something that happens
00:31:06
in a residential area in the UK it's
00:31:10
beyond thinking about the everyday
00:31:12
person would not believe that that level
00:31:14
of abuse and violence would occur to a
00:31:18
fellow human being
00:31:21
the truth about Jimmy prout's final
00:31:24
moments finally came to light from a
00:31:27
five o'clock in the morning
00:31:29
of February the 9th 2016
00:31:31
there are a series of telephone calls
00:31:34
between Zaman
00:31:36
Corbett and wood we were to discover
00:31:40
later
00:31:41
that Zaman and rayworth had turned up at
00:31:45
the other house in the same street
00:31:47
and Zaman had ordered
00:31:50
Corbett to gag
00:31:52
Jimmy Prout with a pair of trousers
00:31:55
the argument about oh he's causing such
00:31:58
a lot of noise
00:31:59
Jimmy Prout would never make another
00:32:02
sound he died soon after
00:32:08
the tight-knit group now began playing
00:32:11
the blame game
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00:32:15
these people have lived in this little
00:32:17
vacuum this household this this group
00:32:20
that's been quite separate from the rest
00:32:22
of the community or other outside voices
00:32:24
so when they're in a room with police
00:32:26
officers and legal Representatives being
00:32:29
asked questions I think they begin to
00:32:31
realize that actually I need to look out
00:32:33
for myself now
00:32:35
what the four defendants were doing
00:32:38
ultimately he was as lawyers were
00:32:40
putting cutting each other's throats and
00:32:43
in a sense that made the job of the
00:32:45
police and the prosecution easier we
00:32:49
knew that they were going to accept that
00:32:51
violence and lawful violence and
00:32:53
violence of a terrible nature had been
00:32:55
used towards Jimmy so the real questions
00:32:59
became
00:33:00
did and who didn't do it with all four
00:33:04
suspects remanded in custody
00:33:07
investigators began to look for evidence
00:33:09
from the days leading up to Jimmy's
00:33:11
murder
00:33:12
CCTV on the street where the group lived
00:33:15
captured them on a few different
00:33:17
occasions moving between the two houses
00:33:21
they shared
00:33:23
the first CCTV image is October the 18th
00:33:26
in 2015 where you can see Jimmy Pratt
00:33:28
walking along and he seems to be quite
00:33:30
fit and healthy it's at that point that
00:33:33
we know that their relationship changes
00:33:35
and the relationship that he has with
00:33:37
the rest of group really goes downhill
00:33:41
mistreatment and torture of Jimmy Prout
00:33:44
had begun
00:33:47
on the 5th of February in 2016 we see
00:33:50
Jimmy Prout again and on that occasion
00:33:53
he's just been pushed along the road you
00:33:55
can see that his physical condition has
00:33:57
deteriorated but he is being pushed
00:34:00
along an ease mobile
00:34:04
on February the 6th we see Jimmy Prout
00:34:07
again on this occasion you can see that
00:34:10
his physical
00:34:11
demeanor has completely changed he's
00:34:13
literally being dragged along the road
00:34:16
you can see that he can't hold himself
00:34:19
up you can see that he's got something
00:34:21
wrong with his leg his arm and he's in a
00:34:23
very very bad physical condition
00:34:28
that image of Jimmy Prout being dragged
00:34:31
along is the last time that there are
00:34:34
any images of him being seen alive
00:34:37
just three days later Jimmy Prout would
00:34:41
be dead the only thing you don't see is
00:34:43
salmon you don't see Zaman forcing him
00:34:45
down the road or controlling him because
00:34:48
he didn't need to physically intervene
00:34:50
he seemed to have this mental sort of
00:34:53
ability to control the rest of the group
00:34:55
so they did his bidding while searching
00:34:57
Zaman and k-ray was home detectives
00:35:00
discovered a set of audio recordings
00:35:03
which shed light on who the ringleader
00:35:06
of Jimmy's abuse was
00:35:08
the key thing from the police
00:35:09
perspective was this attack where you
00:35:12
could be heard in the background of this
00:35:15
recorded call actually attacking Jimmy
00:35:17
and assaulting him during the course of
00:35:19
making the call
00:35:21
so it became clear from the evidence
00:35:22
that I got from the flat that he was the
00:35:24
main protagonist
00:35:26
during police interviews Katie rayworth
00:35:29
confessed to another horrendous act
00:35:31
images of the group at an ATM captured
00:35:35
After Jimmy had been killed confirmed
00:35:38
her story
00:35:39
the evidence demonstrated that at some
00:35:41
point after Jimmy's body had been dumped
00:35:44
members of the Zaman group went back to
00:35:47
the body
00:35:49
they took from the body Jimmy's bank
00:35:51
card
00:35:52
and they then used the bank card to
00:35:55
withdraw hundreds of pounds from his
00:35:58
account
00:35:59
and to any right-minded person that
00:36:03
shows that they were
00:36:05
disgusting
00:36:07
Mr filter contemplate how he could do
00:36:09
without really remove a bank card from
00:36:10
the decomposing body which is what they
00:36:12
did
00:36:15
along with Ann Corbett the other members
00:36:18
of the group K rayworth Myra wood and
00:36:21
zaheed Zaman were all charged with
00:36:24
Jimmy's murder
00:36:26
local North Shields residents were
00:36:29
shocked
00:36:38
you just don't think for one minute for
00:36:41
a group of people
00:36:42
are actually prepared to do something
00:36:45
like that
00:36:46
what goes from the mind of why why would
00:36:49
they why doesn't make sense
00:36:53
on the 3rd of May 2017 zaheed's a man
00:36:57
and his three misguided disciples went
00:37:00
on trial at Newcastle Crown Court all
00:37:03
four admitted to perverting the course
00:37:06
of justice but denied murdering Jimmy
00:37:08
Prout reporter Jeremy Armstrong was in
00:37:12
the courtroom
00:37:13
it was a strange sight seeing them say
00:37:15
by side in the dark he seemed somehow
00:37:18
divorced from what was going on I don't
00:37:19
know if one can just best describe that
00:37:22
that way but there didn't seem to be any
00:37:24
shame or any emotional reaction to the
00:37:27
description of what had happened to
00:37:28
Jimmy which I found quite disturbing
00:37:30
really
00:37:32
prosecutor Paul greeney had to
00:37:35
cross-examine the manipulative
00:37:37
ringleader I officer encountered zahid
00:37:40
Zaman in a very different environment
00:37:42
from the environment in which K raywith
00:37:45
and others encountered him I encountered
00:37:47
him in a courtroom not an environment in
00:37:50
which he would have been comfortable but
00:37:51
one in which I was comfortable and the
00:37:54
person that I saw was undistinguished
00:37:57
and entirely unimpressive
00:38:01
former acquaintance of K rayworth Helen
00:38:04
O'Keefe came face to face with a man who
00:38:07
terrorized the neighborhood when she
00:38:09
took the stand
00:38:11
it was very very daunting but once I
00:38:14
went in
00:38:15
and he was there with either three
00:38:18
we were sitting there it's all he was
00:38:20
Untouchable as all well regardless of
00:38:22
what anybody says nothing's going to
00:38:24
happen to me when I first went in he was
00:38:27
watching
00:38:29
so he was trying to be a bit
00:38:30
intimidating and I thought no you're not
00:38:32
gonna you're not you're not going to
00:38:34
intimidate us
00:38:38
with the evidence laid out in front of
00:38:41
them it was clear to everyone in the
00:38:43
courtroom that sir man was the
00:38:45
instigator in Chief of the cult-like
00:38:48
group it wouldn't happen without Amanda
00:38:50
I don't think there's any doubt about
00:38:51
that whatsoever
00:38:52
my own view is that zahid Zaman tortured
00:38:56
and caused Jimmy to be tortured and
00:38:59
ultimately killed Jimmy because he
00:39:02
thought that he had been involved in
00:39:04
some way in the theft of some
00:39:07
inexpensive tools
00:39:09
and such was the distorted personality
00:39:12
of zahita man such was his desire for
00:39:17
vengeance that he was prepared to do
00:39:20
anything to show that people shouldn't
00:39:23
treat him like that the jury didn't fall
00:39:25
for the clique's lies and found Ann
00:39:28
Corbett and zaheed Zaman guilty of the
00:39:31
murder of Jimmy Prout as for K raywith
00:39:35
and Myra wood the jury decided that they
00:39:38
were guilty of causing or allowing the
00:39:40
death of a vulnerable adult
00:39:43
my take on it is that the jury thought
00:39:46
that these were two women who were
00:39:48
effectively living in the same household
00:39:50
as Jimmy who knew that he was vulnerable
00:39:53
who knew that he was being mistreated in
00:39:57
the most appalling way on a daily basis
00:39:59
sometime more than once a day who had an
00:40:02
opportunity and an obligation to
00:40:03
intervene but didn't do so
00:40:06
they just allowed him to die
00:40:08
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00:40:14
K rayworth was jailed for 12 years and
00:40:17
four months and Myra Ward received a
00:40:20
nine-year sentence Zaman and Corbett
00:40:23
were sentenced to life in prison 33 and
00:40:27
27 years respectively proving that saman
00:40:31
was seen as the main Tormentor of Jimmy
00:40:34
Prout
00:40:35
the length of their sentences shows how
00:40:38
shocked the jury were in this case and
00:40:41
the judge because this isn't just a case
00:40:43
of murder this is a case of humiliation
00:40:47
torture of a vulnerable adult
00:40:50
Jimmy Prout was tortured to death by a
00:40:54
group of individuals who he believed to
00:40:56
be his friends
00:40:58
having witnessed Jimmy's deterioration
00:41:01
burning the brutal truth about the
00:41:03
reasons behind it was difficult for
00:41:06
local residents like Helen to hear
00:41:09
going back to that port
00:41:11
of seeing them help and then hearing
00:41:14
what had happened
00:41:16
you feel that's all you wish I'd
00:41:17
intervened but you couldn't because of
00:41:20
the time there was nothing underwater
00:41:22
where you could see
00:41:23
do you need a hand
00:41:28
I think probably this is one of the most
00:41:30
extreme cases of violence towards a
00:41:34
vulnerable individual one could ever
00:41:35
come across and and one of the most
00:41:37
shocking cases I've ever covered as a
00:41:39
result of that there was absolutely no
00:41:41
need whatsoever to use the extreme level
00:41:43
of violence that was used against him
00:41:46
an was an extremely dangerous individual
00:41:50
he simply couldn't cope with the
00:41:53
situation in which he didn't get his own
00:41:55
way
00:41:56
and if he didn't get his own way he
00:41:59
responded in a way that was vengeful in
00:42:01
the extreme
00:42:04
there can be no doubt that the barbaric
00:42:07
cruelty caused by a group of Misfits was
00:42:10
spearheaded by the man
00:42:14
could have put an end to the medieval
00:42:16
like torture at any point
00:42:19
but clearly receives some sort of sick
00:42:21
enjoyment from watching an innocent man
00:42:24
die slowly
00:42:26
this wicked brutality unquestionably
00:42:30
makes saheeds a man one of the world's
00:42:33
most evil killers
00:42:38
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