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[Music] keith farquharson a man who could be trusted he was a retired police inspector
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and he had a part-time job i think driving kids on a school bus but not everybody saw him as a solid
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citizen he should never have been in the role of police officer he's narcissistic he's misogynistic and
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he's abusive some said he was a man with a one-track mind i think farquharson really did enjoy
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having sex with strangers i think he enjoyed affairs i think he enjoyed the whole power play sexually
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in 2019 a jury was asked if keith farquharson had used his power to murder his wife
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it's not a quick process strangling someone was this all a ghastly mistake his contention was that he hadn't
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deliberately killed his wife that there had been a terrible accident is a policeman
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innocent or guilty of the murder of his wife [Music] in 2019 ian duggard a senior scottish
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legal counsel took a call which would place him at the heart of legal proceedings against a one-time senior
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policeman i was instructed by the solicitor in aberdeen to represent keith what farkerson
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duggard and others would learn was a story of love deceit marriage and murder [Music]
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keith and alice farquharson were married in 1986. to neighbors and friends they were the sort of people anyone would
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want to live near keith for carson was a cop in aberdeen started his career in the 80s
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neil lancaster also a one-time cop now lives in scotland and recognises farquharson's career trajectory
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he held various positions in the police and rose to the rank of inspector so managerial
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rank a man who would have to be good at his job to get there and helping him the
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woman he married he'd been married to alice for 33 years alice is lovely she's just one of those
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humans that you're drawn to he had a house where he lived with his wife he had three grown-up children between 1986
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and 2000 alice appears devoted to the children indeed children are at the center of her life alice is reported to
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be a loving mother and dedicated professional working in the classrooms with small children she
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works at a school and all the little children there just adore her she's a very warm caring empathic human she gave
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up so much of her time to create the local school library apparently the school library was non-existent when she
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joined and she from a volunteer basis made it happen on the surface alice and keith appeared to
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be a good match both working to better their family and community but their personalities couldn't be more
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different alice parquason was the antithesis of her husband people said that he thought he was god's gift to
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women alice was the complete opposite alice was the kind of person who was anything but narcissistic she was giving
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and she was kind and she was generous and she was so giving she was willing to hero
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worship farkasan and that's what he really needed from a partner around 2007 farquharson was discovered
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by alice to be having an affair she thought it was not the first and not one he ever fully walked away from
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the liaison which he had said had broken off and which i think he explained had broken off had in
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some way resumed or to some extent had resumed throughout the 33 married years heath
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appeared to focus on keith specifically his love of policing fast cars and motorbikes
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and other women as for farguson's choice of profession farcason that that personality that
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i'm in charge i'm wonderful i'm arrogant he was always going to go into a role
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that probably had a uniform and probably put him in charge or control of people so the police was a
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natural choice for somebody like him human rights lawyer harriet wistrich who campaigns for women's rights within the
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criminal justice system believes that policing can attract men with a certain sense of entitlement there's no doubt
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that policing attracts some men who are attracted by having power having the power and also the status of a police
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officer and also to some degree the impunity of a police officer in the early 1980s police forces across the uk
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were being changed renewed reformed farquharson became a cop in the newly established grampian police force which
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brought together smaller forces from across aberdeenshire initially he was very successful
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keith for carson is a man who shot up the ranks in the aberdeen police force in the
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police force in aberdeen you have to be motivated you have to be single-minded and you have to be very very determined
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to achieve those ranks he was famous for his sexual behavior people especially women i think referred to him
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as a bit of a pervert actually he probably didn't see himself in that way at all he probably thought that he was
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some kind of casanova but people like farkasen often don't realize how their
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behavior is being received constantly making lewd remarks constantly allegedly engaging in lewd behaviour suggestive he
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wouldn't last five minutes in today's police force for women working in the police and i can
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say this because i am a former police officer feel under an awful lot of pressure to
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take that abuse to be one of the lads to prove they're good enough to do the job
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somebody like him is gonna get away with his misogyny in the police at that time
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30 years ago the sort of disciplinary consequences for police officers for certain
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misbehavior is is alarmingly inconsequential in the background at home alice farquharson was doing her best to raise
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her children and keep her family together she's going to remain happy about that in within the relationship
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and happy that her husband going around sexually harassing his colleagues what it what it suggests to me is he had
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complete control over that woman he could do what he wanted he'd go where he
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wanted he could have a relationship after a relationship and she simply had to quote unquote grin and bear it but in
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1998 farquharson finally took things too far he was in his late 40s by this point
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he was an inspector his senior position in the police in aberdeenshire he wrote a really disgusting
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poem to a female member of staff now this cd poem that he sent to this police officer was called gasping for it
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she didn't take it well at all and reported it was not a poem to a lover it was a poem to a young
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impressionable and intimidated female police officer the woman police officer would tell a court
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that she was frightened about the implication of the poem and the intention of the author the poem was
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sexually explicit she feared farquissen could find out when her husband was to be on duty and might arrive at their
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home looking for sex it was an act that spoke volumes about how farcan saw himself if that behavior
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happens uh by a police officer within the police it's it's it's clear that he
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he he feels uh entitled and immune to some degree from being held accountable but on this occasion held accountable he
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was farcerson claimed it had been a joke and apologized but was convicted of breaching the peace by causing his
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female colleague fear and alarm he was fined 500 pounds and stripped of his inspector's badge and then demoted back
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down to constable so you can imagine how serious it must have been deemed to have that there are
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other ranks in between all the way down to constable it was deemed that serious ex-policeman neil lancaster knows the
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ramifications of a demotion now this would have caused him a lot of problems and cost him a significant amount of
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money demoted but not dismissed and still alice stayed loyal where was this mismatch of a marriage
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headed like everybody else he would he was quite anxious um but he was looking for
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advice he was looking for advice on what the legal criteria are for murder what other alternatives there might be what
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defense he might have between 1998 and 2010 and despite keith's sexist and unfaithful behavior
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the marriage of alice and keith ferguson was still going but it would be blighted
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by deception infidelity and lies in 2008 alice discovers he's having an affair with women that he spends time
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with at work so she's kind of trapped in this awful situation where day in day out she must
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have spent her time wondering what he was doing and who he was with alice is humiliated she had been married to a
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police inspector she once thought a pillar of the community now she was married to an adulterer who sexually
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harassed junior colleagues but to alice there was very little she could do to change her situation
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i think that women don't leave relationships like the quests and analysis because they can't see that
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there would be an alternative they've been brought up in a way that suggests
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marriages for life to work hard to try harder if it goes wrong and once you have children to remain married in spite
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of the pain that you're caused this tends to be what a lot of women end up doing sacrificing their happiness
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sacrificing their own lives to some degree because they believe marriage is something that you remain in for the
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rest of your life feeling unable to leave alice may have hoped that the damage to a career her
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husband had worked incredibly hard to build might be enough to change his behavior but farcason doesn't change
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despite having been demoted to constable he's often in trouble at work for pestering women or inappropriate
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relationships he somehow managed to avoid further reprimand for being one of a number of officers
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who have been involved all together in a sexual encounter it's about seeing a
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woman as something to be used and even though she's consenting to this you can
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see there's just no respect for her there is a childishness to for questions
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behavior as well we know that he's engaged in a sexual liaison she's actually sleeping with several of his
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colleagues tells us everything we need to know about keith farquharson and his attitudes to not only the opposite sex
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but to the woman to whom he swore marriage vows again alice stands by her husband he's the father of their three
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children she wants the marriage to work but rather than being shamed into good behavior
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farquissen becomes increasingly cruel he is abusive emotionally he rejects her constantly he's very cold towards her
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there are incidences where she says that she loves him he just groans he has affairs with other people this is a man
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that was meant to protect and love her but actually it seems that all the work is done on her side
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emotionally abusive at home engaging in high-risk behavior at work why did alice
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not complain to her husband's bosses former top prosecutor nazia afzal has seen such cases before
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i know this from experience just imagine being a victim of a police officers who
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would be abusing you do you ring 999 or 111 or whatever it is do if you ring them up do you think that
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that person on the end of the phone will keep this confidential or will they go and have a word with mr fox and say to
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him your wife has just reported you so she would have been really reluctant to report anything that was happening to
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her because she couldn't trust the system they don't have confidence that
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police will investigate it properly because of the culture within policing and because
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because police officers are more likely to be believed so there's less less effective investigation quite often
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throughout this time keith appears to have learned nothing from his demotion and fine indeed the former inspector
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demoted to constable starts climbing the career ladder again after the reprimand
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when he's coming back up the ranks he's still doing this and his poor wife who
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is trying to live her life at home and make things work around them and i guess trying to make a life for herself given
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how often a husband must not be home meanwhile at work more women begin to complain about his sexual misconduct a
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motorcycle policewoman complains of him pestering her and says she's determined
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to take legal action by 2009 fortunately things have started to change in the police force and sexual harassment is
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certainly not tolerated and women are now being taken seriously about allegations so when a motorcycle police
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officer tells people that he's harassing her this is obviously escalated the
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result of that complaint is suspension on full pay a second complaint and ultimately this ends his career so
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finally all of those years later after all that he has done his career as a cop comes to
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an end after more than 20 years in the police force keith farquharson is finally
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suspended for sexual harassment he's forced to take early retirement foxton is a really
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problem person he should never have been in the role of police officer he's narcissistic he's misogynistic and he's
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abusive and not only that he is very willing and time and time again does it crosses the
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line breaks the rules maybe even breaks the law this is not the kind of person who
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should be given the powers that a police officer has so what next for the farquissens alice
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continues her work at the local primary school her children are grown up now in marriages of their own
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she hopes keith's retirement with a full police pension will allow the couple to
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rekindle any romance they once had no longer tempted at work surely keith will choose to spend more time with her
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keith has other ideas i think farquharson really did enjoy having sex with strangers i think he
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enjoyed affairs i think he enjoyed the whole power play sexually and i think that comes down to the fact that he
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maybe as he got older realized that he wasn't the powerful human being that he
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thought he was as a young man and suddenly wanted to prove that more and more so i do think that for him sex is
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incredibly important seemingly confident that alice won't leave him he continues to seek out
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adulation from others for all all of his bluster and bluff farkason was a windbag of a man he was
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just full of falsity and full of drama and charade he's lost his power he's
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lost his position where he could take advantage of the of the young wpcs or the traffic wardens or whoever else
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however the problem we now have of course is that keith requires isn't going to change
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still only in his 50s keith takes work to get him out of the house having left the police in 2010 he
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started in a new job he was driving a school bus some time after that he became a taxi
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driver where he used his own mercedes to take fares he actually has a mercedes with a personalized number plate and
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that just shows you what the attitude of him is you know he wants everyone to know that he's a taxi
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driver but he doesn't really need to be he can afford a really beautiful car and
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a personalised registration but also gives him perfect access to women this is an opportunity to be around lots of
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other women and that's something that we know is his trait keith continues to cheat
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again alice has been this long-suffering loyal wife the entire time it must have been
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another slap in the face because after we left the force i imagine she had hopes that they might retire and have a
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life together one that she'd earned but no he abuses her trust once again and when
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she finds out she still stays in 2016 alice texts her husband she says i love you just want you to love me too
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but keith has no interest in changing and we know that he continues to grasp every opportunity he can for
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infidelity we also know that he embarks upon an old affair or re-embarks upon an old affair
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so a serious relationship he'd had back in the early 2000s in 2018 keith farquharson was watching
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the rugby in a pub when he bumped into the woman that he had a relationship with 10 years earlier
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they rekindle their romance keith burleigh tries to hide it even his children knew of his infidelity the
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evidence had indicated that his wife had come across on his own phone some contact between himself and
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someone with whom he'd started an affair something like 11 or 12 years earlier
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and which had then resumed i think perhaps earlier in 2019 alice is devastated she starts searching
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the internet for information about her husband's girlfriend after years of putting up with his controlling behavior
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his abuse his affairs it all starts to come to a head for alice it all ends in the bedroom
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and it ends with alice asking a question that one assumes she's asked many times
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his version of events was that his wife had asked him whether um he still loved her
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and i think he was a bit dismissive of the question just such a small question to get a small answer that meant so much
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we know because he tells us this himself that for question his response is not yes i
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love you or even you know what no i don't i'm going to release you from this
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hell of a marriage all he does is groan it appeared from her investigations that
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she'd come across the information that perhaps the liaison which he had said had broken off and which i
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think he explained had broken off had in some way um resumed or to some extent had resumed
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and his um idea was that she had come by that information and perhaps that was the reason for
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her question can you imagine how humiliating that is after all those years all those
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indiscretions and the reality for her is that she's just enraged understandably
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alice was a little bit upset about this and it's reported that she slapped him
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this is then started off a sequence of events that will lead to her death after 33 years of humiliation and abuse
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alice stands up for herself and because she slaps him his response is violent and he covers her mouth and she starts
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to scream he is quite tall i think um and he used to attend the gym so i would imagine he's quite physically fit it
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ended with him putting two hands around her throat and choking the life out of her after
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all those years that he put it through hell whilst this looks like a moment of madness
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there are many options in those moments that he has an opportunity to stop doing
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what he's doing it's not a quick process strangling someone it's clearly going to
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involve a struggle and he doesn't choose to stop the action it's a process focus and denies happened
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to this day yes the couple got into a fight but there was a good reason for him putting his hands to her mouth
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he had been in an argument with his wife which had developed a physical element about it in other
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words he had tried to physically stop her from screaming or shouting i'm sure the
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record of the evidence is that he was doing that because he didn't want the neighbors to be alerted
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by a noise from inside their house the noise inside the house ended in the death of alice farkerson
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the report to the authorities comes from farkasen himself farcan called the emergency services
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after he killed alice now he didn't have a lot of time to think about what he was
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going to say to them he did think that perhaps the officers that turned up would be
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people that he knew and he would have thought that perhaps he could talk them into
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not looking where he knew they should look that they would perhaps believe him but he also had an intricate knowledge
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of crime scene processing and crime scene management and how the whole process works so
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he in fact was in a very good position to try and manipulate the situation as alice lies dead in the bedroom for keith
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the question is now can he get away with murder by using the knowledge he had gained when a police officer as a police
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officer expertise officer he would have known what the officers will look for when they arrive at a crime scene
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and so when he was there presenting the story to them he did so knowing what the
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questions they would ask because those are the questions he was trying to ask himself so he was clearly in a very
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prime position to be able to try and pull the wall over their eyes and that i think
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clearly enabled him initially uh to fool them into thinking this was just an accident when ambulance teams arrive
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they find alice farquharson in her night dress lying on the floor of their bedroom
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she is pronounced dead at the scene despite their life-saving efforts to paramedics farquharson appears irate
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agitated he's hyperventilating farkson concocted a story he said that there'd been a bit of a struggle now he
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claims he pulled her off the bed in order to give her cpr but as she did she banged her head on the floor and he's
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probably quite plausible at that time he is a manipulative person so he will be behaving in a way that he thinks is
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going to get the best result from the people he's standing in front of him and he knows how they think he knows who
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they are he's worked he's worked with them and at first he was believed could the korea policeman put his 33
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years in the force and the knowledge of what to say in such a situation to use could he get away with murder
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in the immediate hours after emergency services had found alice farquharson dead in her bedroom it appeared as if
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keith farquharson might get away with murder after all despite his faults this was an
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ex-cop but he's not going to do this surely as a police officer he's not
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going to kill anybody police officers at the scene initially thought this was a non-suspicious
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accident as a police officer expedience officer ferguson would have had experience
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not necessarily of his own cases but of hundreds of cases involving domestic abuse potentially homicides he'd have
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read about them he'd have been trained about them he would have known what the
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officers will look for when they arrive at a crime scene and so when he was there presenting the story
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to them about a shower accident he did so knowing what the questions they would ask because those are the questions he
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was trained to ask himself they released the house back into the family which really shouldn't have happened
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between 6 30 in the morning and nine o'clock farquharson was intent on manipulating
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the inquiry if the police had thought that alice had been killed and had not fallen they
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would have done something that's called locking down the crime scene that means that
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straight away the scene is preserved in exactly the way it was found he would have been
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removed he wouldn't have been allowed to touch anything at all they would have filmed
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it they would have photographed it they'd have got the forensics teams in if they believed it was an accident none
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of that would have happened and crucial evidence may have been lost and he would know that
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so he was clearly in a very prime position to be able to try and pull the wall over
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their eyes and that i think clearly enabled him initially to fool them into thinking this was just
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an accident his was not a deceit that would take long to uncover he must have known that they would find
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out that she'd been strangled but by saying it was an accident he bought himself a lot of time and he saved a lot
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of evidence being collected it's immensely troubling that um when the police attended um
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what we now know is a murder scene they quickly accepted his story and were prepared to put it down to
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accident rather than what it was when a senior inspector arrived on the scene he
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realized something was amiss i think some suspicions had been expressed by one of the attending police inspectors
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and then the involvement of um criminal investigation department officers despite farkerson's insistence that his
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wife fell out of the bed the inspectors realize that nothing keith is saying matches up with the evidence and demands
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an immediate postmortem this was a post-mortem examination which necessarily involved
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two doctors because there was a suspicion of a crime having been committed the pathologist said well hang
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on a second it's all well and good saying she's banged her head but there's
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no sign of that what there is a sign of however is strangulation big hand marks around her throat so it
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took the pathologist to step in and say hang on a minute investigate this please because there's
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a crime here well anybody who's even watched a crime film knows that the first thing that any pathologist is
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going to do is to look for the cause or injury and that's going to be to do with
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her windpipe being crushed and also there'll be injuries and bruising around
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her neck gradually police realized what had happened to alice in the last few moments of her life
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this was no accident the post mortem showed that the version of events that farkerson had said was
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not correct they found that she died by mechanical asphyxiation of her neck there were bruises on the face that
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indicated that she was possibly strangled until she passed out and then ferguson held her nose and put his hand
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over her mouth thereby suffocating her to death the death of alice farquharson after 30
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years of marriage was now a murder investigation and one keith farquharson was not going to help with
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as part of the inquiries ferguson's phone was seized by police they wanted to download it using a piece
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of software so they could look at the contents however he refused to give them the pin initially and i think that that
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presents enormous difficulties to investigators because the security of smartphones is so high farquison would
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later claim that he was not trying to be obstructive there was i think a contention that he
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couldn't provide the password for his telephone my recollection of his instruction on that was it wasn't a
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deliberate obstruction on his part he had a number of different passwords for a number of different devices
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um i'm sure he just had either given a single wrong digit or might have given
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some information which turned out to be the wrong information others would perhaps see it differently
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though i understand that the police were suspicious about that matter when police eventually got into the
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phone and were able to examine the contents they found a huge number of highly sexual texts between ferguson and
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other women now to me this is just another piece of evidence as to his character
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the messages also reveal just how hard alice was working to keep her marriage alive they found messages from alice
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which were along the lines of i just want you to love me messages from this poor
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deprived emotionally starved woman just desperate for something back from her husband and those messages they came
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in between a host of sexually depraved text messages sent by farquharson to various
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women so while his wife was asking him to love her he was asking other women to do some
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very sorted things to him despite his best efforts to get away with murder keith farquharson is arrested charged
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the first time i met him was in um the prison where he was detained i knew about the um
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outcome of the post-mortem examination i had already received a draft of the report
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by the pathologist and so by the time i spoke to him the cause of death was known his
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contention was that he hadn't deliberately killed his wife that there had been a
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terrible accident charged keith farquharson now stood accused of her murder on the day of the
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of the offence itself he became involved in an argument which became physical between the two of them
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and that her death was i think the consequence of his actions but his actions were never either
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intended to kill or of a type which would have been so wickedly reckless that he didn't care whether she lived or
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died keith farquharson was not giving up he argued he was not guilty of murder rather he was ready to admit to a lesser
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plea he offered to plead guilty to culpable homicide which would probably equate to manslaughter
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and his contention was that he was guilty of an assault on his wife in the course of the argument which had
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taken place but culpable homicide is a lesser crime than murder so he defended the case on the
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basis that the jury should convict him of culpable homicide because he didn't have the
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requisite intention that you'd need to be convicted of murder there is a crucial difference between intending to
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kill someone and doing something which might lead to their death without intending to kill someone
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the former leads to a life sentence the latter offers sentencing discretion offenders can be out in a handful of
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years and this was a suspect with a ready-made explanation for everything put to him by
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the time i became involved in the case it was obvious that he had not told the truth to the various persons who'd come
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around to his house in the first place a jury would soon be asked was keith ferguson a liar and a killer
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keith farquharson went for trial at glasgow height court in april 2020. he was asking a jury to believe that he had
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no intention of killing alice he stuck to the story he'd given into the police station this was an accident
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was his story now this meant that his children had to come to court to give evidence can we imagine how difficult
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that would be for them farquharson was also asking the jury to believe that this was a strong marriage
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he and alice had got along fine i don't think he ever suggested it was an unhappy marriage
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he gave evidence about his marriage when he was um in the witness box he i think he described it as a happy
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marriage um the suggestion that he'd been unfaithful i suppose is is a feature but on the
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other hand i think he explained that he had no intention of leaving his wife or divorcing her and he
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was perfectly happy with his lifestyle during the trial focusing repeatedly broke down in tears telling the jury
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that his attack on alice was totally accidental i thought she would calm down and then we could talk about it he told
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them when he was giving evidence on his own behalf in the court proceedings that he burst into tears and
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i've no doubt that he fully appreciated that what he had been responsible for
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in other words he admitted a responsibility of some nature for his wife's death
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he had torn apart his family really he had three children and um i suspect that the bond that
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existed between them is or was never going to be repaired as for the reason that he wanted the
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jury to find him not guilty of murder his argument was in general terms that he never intended to kill her that
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whatever he did and the physical attack which he perpetrated by putting his hand
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over her mouth which was trying to stop her screaming and the consequence of that
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had brought about her death so in many ways it was the fact that he didn't have the
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necessary intent or the wicked intention to kill her or was acting with such wicked recklessness
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that he didn't care whether she lived or died but the case put forward by the
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prosecution was that he knew exactly what he was doing this was no accidental death he
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strangled her but he also smothered her so he made sure in every way that alice couldn't breathe he was
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making sure she was gonna die he wasn't in the moment of passion just grabbed
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her around the throat and accidentally she died takes quite a long time to strangle somebody
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and he and he wanted her dead because he used two methods put his hand over her face and he
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strangled her that's what the pathologist says on the 18th of february 2020 following a
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five-day trial the jury had to weigh up the two arguments alice had died after an appalling
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accident or she had been killed by her husband the jury returned their verdict in this
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case he was found guilty of murder by a majority verdict so we have 15 members of the jury
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and eight eight people voting for guilty would be a majority nobody ever finds out what the majority was on the 23rd of
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march 2020 at the high court in glasgow he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 15 years he
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showed no emotion when handcuffed and he didn't look at his children if i remember correctly i went down to the
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cells to see him afterwards and just explain what procedures could take place thereafter but
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yeah he was very upset he was narcissistic he was self-focused he was misogynistic
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and when he was in court and finally all his power had been taken away all his status had been taken away and
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even alice who hero worshipped him she wasn't even there anymore either oh he would have cried
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tears of self-pity when sentencing keith farkerson lady stacy the judge commented on how far he
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had fallen she told him you had been a police officer for many years it is distressing that a man who held
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such a position could behave like this and commit such a serious crime what you did has destroyed your family
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and taken away the trust children should have in their father farquharson appealed the verdict in 2021
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if he was successful in appealing his conviction and the charge of murder was reduced to a
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conviction for culpable homicide his sentence would not have been a life sentence with
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the fixing of a number of years that he has to serve before becoming eligible for the parole board
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so the nature of the sentence would change it wouldn't be a life sentence at the heart of the appeal case medical
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evidence alice had not died due to being strangled but from a heart attack there was a possibility that she could
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have suffered something called a reflex cardiac arrest and that was really what was the foundation of his argument that
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he never intended to kill her so he had placed his hand over her mouth to restrict her breathing
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i think it's fair to say his arm had gone across her neck at some point she had internal bruising or she had
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bruising which wasn't visible on the surface of her neck but was discernible from an internal
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examination suggestion was that the bruising wasn't of a type of such severity that it would
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have been enough to compress and restrict her breathing the appeal was rejected parkerson's grown up children have no
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mother and a father who will spend many years in prison it was a sad end to a case i have to say
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he is the type of individual who fully appreciates i think what he had done wrong
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keith fargerson will likely be released when he is 75 years old after 30 years as a serving police
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officer 30 years where he routinely harassed female colleagues 30 years that ended with him murdering
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his wife he will still receive his full police pension a fact which angers some campaigners for awareness of the dangers
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of escalating abuse in the home it's a disgrace that someone like farkasan who has used people his entire life who
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has been disgraced himself his entire life is going to come out of prison with hundreds of thousands of pounds of
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police pension and probably live quite a comfortable retirement alice farquharson died aged just 56
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strangled in her own home in her marriage bed by the person she trusted most the hardest thing about this case is
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that alice deserved so much better not just at the end throughout her whole life with him you
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think that she was holding out for the man that she loved to change to just give her back just a little bit of the
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loyalty that she'd shown him and instead he killed her [Music] [Music] so [Music]
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