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on october the 12th 2016 24 year old alice ruggles left work with a colleague who drove her home to
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her apartment in gateshead near newcastle england she would never be seen alive again it
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was just 12 days between her calling the police and her being murdered when alice
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arrived home from work someone was waiting for her her ex-boyfriend trimming harry dylan
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a man she had rejected she said no and that proved to be fatal this wasn't a case of an assault that escalated to
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murder this was always going to be a murder this was pre-planned alice thought she was finally free of dylan
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and could move on with her life i can't forget this he's said i always get what
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i want you know i always get my own way i've been like that since i was a little
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child coming home from work alice's flatmate found her in the bathroom lying
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in a pool of blood getting back to my flat in the doorway so i crawled through the window and my back needs covered in
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blood in the bathroom harry dylan forced his way in and he was armed with a knife
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and inside the bathroom he attacked her with that knife with such force and such
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severity that the knife made contact with a spine at the back of her throat trimming harry dylan didn't love alice
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ruggles he wanted to possess her control her and ultimately destroy her the only way he could stop her leaving
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him was to brutally murder her making trimming harry dylan one of the world's
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most evil killers [Music] so october the 11th 2015 25 year old lance corporal truman dillon
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or halle to his friends was serving as a signaler with his regiment in afghanistan when he saw a photograph of
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23 year old alice ruggles on facebook harry instantly reached out and his friend request was accepted
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the two of them hit it off and begun an intense social media relationship and that went on for two or three months
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while he was posted out in afghanistan so we first heard about it or i first heard about it on
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christmas that year when alice came home and she was talking about him then and um
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we got the impression he was her boyfriend but actually at that point they'd never
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met i think at the time if i'd known alice hadn't met him and had said he was
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her boyfriend i would have been quite shocked but i didn't discover that unfortunately till after she'd been
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murdered the speed and intensity of dylan's relationship with alice was nothing new
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for him he would meet a woman profess almost immediate love for her that a very intense relationship would develop
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that he would seek to control that relationship and control his partner all the time cheating on them behind
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their backs dylan's possessive controlling behavior began to take its toll on alice well it became obvious
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that alice was becoming unhappy the fact that she was she was losing weight she looked physically different
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um she lost her verve and vigor for life she was losing friends all over the place
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the cheating and dylan's lying was the final straw for alice leaving a relationship can be a very high risk
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time for violence and for homicide because by leaving by making the decision to go um you're compromising
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the perpetrator's control over you and no woman was allowed to walk away from trimming harry dylan
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if he couldn't have her nobody else could this killer's story begins in 1990 in
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india dylan was the only child born into an affluent devout sikh family trim and dylan is something of an enigma
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we don't know a lot about his background we know that he's from india we know
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that his father was quite high ranking in the army we know that his mother was a graduate of a high profile university
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in india as a boy truman received a first class education he went on to study strategy
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management at university which involves spending two years overseas at the queen
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margaret university near edinburgh in scotland you know he has quite a traditional
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nuclear family background there beyond that we don't know very much but i think we can say that what is
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important to him are things like hierarchy and status and power and tradition and he might have some quite
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fixed ideas of what relationships look like in september 2010 at the age of 19 truman dylan arrived in the uk
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he became known as harry amongst his fellow students in december while still at university
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harry applied to join the british army which you i suppose you would expect son of an army lieutenant colonel
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probably always thought of himself certainly as a an army type liked something about it
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dylan's uk citizenship was not complete so he couldn't apply to become an army
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officer he trained at caterick in north yorkshire and passed out in may 2012 as a private
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he was posted with the royal regiment of scotland to canterbury in kent so you can see inside this young man
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quite handsome when he wants to be relatively charming but also there's something odd you know that's
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that's something about him i think one or two of his army colleagues described him as not really
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one of us it was just something slightly off it was in kent in september 2012 that harry dylan met an 18 year old
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bulgarian student who later became his girlfriend and this was a relationship that had
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proceeded at an incredibly fast pace and that's something that we see very often
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in these abusive situations where somebody like dylan is taking control of somebody else in the spring of 2013
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dylan proposed delighted with his engagement the next day he returned to india alone to visit his family for a
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few weeks this break however gave his young fiancee time to reconsider their relationship
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she dumped him on skype which absolutely infuriated him um and he flew back from india early
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and really lost his temper in in every way to add insult to injury dylan's now
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ex-fiance had a new boyfriend dylan doesn't take it lying down and one of his characteristics is he can't stand
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rejection he absolutely hates it he believes he's entitled to things i was entitled as a child i'm entitled as an
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adult if you're the woman i've chosen then i'm entitled to you dylan started stalking
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her and harassing her with derogatory and unpleasant texts telling her he wanted to make her cry
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she's on her way to meet her new partner and there's an incident where he spits
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in her face he acts very aggressively towards her new partner and he uses language like what are you doing with my
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girlfriend this is my girlfriend it's all possessive language so he sees this
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ex-partner as something that he owns and no other man has the right to take that
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away from him after the assault his ex-fiance reported dylan to the police but no criminal
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charges were brought against him he was later issued with a restraining order to stay away from her it's
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incredibly common for people like dylan to assault ex-girlfriends more than once
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to engage in any kind of behaviour to take that control back so this is not a flash in the pan this is not a one-off
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this kind of behavior is part of a course of conduct it was easy for dylan to comply with the
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restraining order against him shortly after the incident in kent he was deployed almost 500 miles away to
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glenn course barracks in edinburgh scotland dylan was a signaler in the british army
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with ambitions to join the special reconnaissance regiment of the sas by now he's a lance corporal he's been
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promoted you can see a sort of swagger in him in his step and you can see impressionable
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perhaps younger women being rather taken with him 25 year old dylan regularly used dating
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sites apps and social media to hook up with women he was clearly uh highly motivated when
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it came to female company i think he fancied himself as a bit of a gigolo actually
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that he thought i can have any woman i want i think there was a lot of that about him
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in september 2015 harry dylan was deployed with his regiment to afghanistan he was not a
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combat soldier his role was essentially in communications far from the front line
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on the 11th of october 2015 while serving in afghanistan harry dylan saw a facebook post from an old
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university friend dylan first saw alice on social media she was a friend of one of his friends on social media and i
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think dylan sees this platform as a bit of a shopping catalog for new girlfriends he's literally going on
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there liking the look of alice and saying i want that one the post dylan saw was a selfie snap of
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his friend on holiday in sri lanka with a girlfriend the girlfriend was 23 year old alice
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ruggles a northumbria university graduate who lived in gateshead near newcastle just over 100 miles from
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edinburgh it really does reinforce that extent to which he sees women as objects as
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possessions that he can just select so he gets in touch with alice's friends
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and says this is one of the most beautiful women i've ever seen i have to meet her words to that effect and this
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is how they they first come to meet and i think this really does set the tone for the relationship i'm in control
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i am choosing you i'm the one that has power trimming harry dylan had found his
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new obsession october the 11th 2015 sri lanka alice ruggles was on holiday when she
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received a facebook friend request from trimmin harry dylan alice was careful with her social media
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accounts but harry was a friend of a friend and she happily accepted his request
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it wasn't that she was desperate for somebody to go out with she just she you know she liked meeting people um
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she probably had lots of people who wanted to go out with her but she wasn't someone who would lead
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people on she just you know if it was the right thing that's what she do dylan
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and alice began chatting and hit it off from then on they were in constant communication
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and by the time we got to about december alice was telling telling everyone she was in a
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relationship with this person she put it on facebook that she was in a relationship and she told me that he was
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her new boyfriend but there was one thing alice didn't make clear to her mum
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i actually didn't realize that she'd never met him he was a soldier serving in afghanistan
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so obviously they couldn't meet up but but i think you know moving forward at that pace and describing yourself as
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partners is wrong really if you haven't met each other it's you're just friends to me but
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it's a sort of sign that somebody is a controlling person if they make the relationship move faster than
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it naturally should i think this is where the control had started to come in so offenders like
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dylan are able to control from a distance you don't need them to be physically present to be exerting quite
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a lot of power over their partners in january 2016 just over three months since they'd
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met on facebook dylan came home on leave and the couple finally met in person and they had a lovely time and alice um
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alice was so taken by him she said he was kind and thoughtful and he paid for things and he he just wanted to keep her
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happy that was how she saw it and she said mom i think he's he is the one he's
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just wonderful and they spent a week in newcastle together and then they spent a week in
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edinburgh together after two wonderful weeks dylan returned to afghanistan to finish his tour and the couple continued
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their intense social media relationship but one of the problems about the whole facebook thing was
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that he was some he was quite controlling about that and he wanted to know where she was
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and who she was going out with what she was wearing and all those all those things that
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sort of can be disguised as being really caring and thoughtful you know like i really want to know what you're wearing
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and i want to know where you are and i want to know who you're with but if you look at them from the other
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side actually they're really quite sinister unfortunately i don't think alice saw
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them as sinister at all at the time in april 2016 dylan's tour in afghanistan ended
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and he was deployed back to barracks in edinburgh once back in the uk dylan was keen to
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meet alice's family we first met him and then it was maybank holiday weekend so they came down for
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the weekend and i i remember thinking that i mean looking back on this there was nothing at the
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time and this is one of those scary things nothing at the time that made me think i
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don't like this guy there's something you know not not not right about this guy really nothing i
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mean yes i could tell him i could tell that he was giving the answers to to questions you know that he wanted me
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to hear and this sort of thing but i'm guessing a lot of lads could have done
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that so there was nothing that that i picked up at that time that led me to think there
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was anything worrying about him things don't start off in an abusive way things start off with
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this individual being everything that the ideal boyfriend is supposed to be because if abusers were abusive all of
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the time nobody would go out with them nobody would date them nobody would marry them so he's got that initial
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charm offensive down to a real t it wasn't long before alice's family and
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friends began to notice changes in her behavior one of the things that had happened
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was that alice had fallen out with the boys she shared a house with which was really unusual for her she
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didn't tend to fall out with people like that he just sort of amplified everything that was happening to make it
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an unhappy um atmosphere in the house and then he started saying to alice um that he he had some money and he would
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buy a flat in newcastle and she could live in the flat this talk about possibly um buying how so she could live
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in it and this sort of thing you know they've only been seeing each other for a couple of months
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is is pushing things worryingly fast alice's demeanor also began to change and there were sort of
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attempts to undermine her confidence and make her feel that she was not really a worthy person which is
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it's not really how she felt i mean she was quite secure in how she was about
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herself and and he managed to make her feel more insecure which is unfortunately something we didn't really
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notice creeping on [Music] there were several tactics that dylan used when he was essentially breaking
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down alice's self-confidence because this is what this is all about it's it's
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a liberty crime it's about taking away somebody's sense of self and he starts
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off with these little criticisms and they're they're kind of veiled criticisms because very often they're
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presented as something that i only have your best interests at heart or i'm only trying to
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help you this is just a suggestion and then you start with the criticisms becoming you know a little bit more
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cutting and then it descends into to even more you know humiliation and control alice started to become isolated from
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her friends even the best friend who'd introduced her to dylan on facebook just six months
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ago and i was really shocked by that because that's you know i'm quite feminist and that's
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not be told what to do and i said well why is that and and she said oh well because we had a bit of an argument
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about something and and he said that she's a poisonous person and he doesn't
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want me to be around anybody who's so poisonous and horrible when we look at alice we don't see
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somebody who we might consider to be a stereotypical victim of abuse she's somebody who's independent she's
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go-getting she's gregarious she's got a really good network of friends and i
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think there's a sense in which dylan saw her as a bit of a challenge to be honest
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um he thought if i can break this person you know i really am fantastic over the next couple of months she
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started to to lose weight a bit and she started to well she was starting to lose confidence and
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as we discovered she was starting to lose friends dylan was an incredibly controlling
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person and he he set in place a lot of rules around relationships he was very critical of alice talking to male
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friends engaging with male colleagues at work he had this paranoia that she was cheating on him and he would constantly
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be sharing these views with her but alice wasn't the one doing the cheating but all the time he was doing
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all of this stuff behind alice's back so he was contacting other women online he
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was arranging to meet up with them he was having casual sex with them so there's an awful lot of double standards
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going on and that's because he feels completely entitled to behave in this way and this is the the very essence of
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misogyny this is it's one set of rules for me and it's a whole other set of
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rules for you one of the women dylan was in contact with messaged alice and told her what
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her boyfriend was up to and this is the final straw for her because alice has a very clear line and
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sand when it comes to relationships clearly and she's not going to tolerate this kind of behavior i think this is
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testament to alice's strength of character and her moral compass despite dylan's denial that he was cheating on
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her alice didn't believe him there had been too many lies in a tearful phone call to her mum alice
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told her that she'd ended their relationship i don't think he actually knows what the truth is i don't think he
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knows what being honest is all about but alice honesty was such an important thing that she really felt
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uncomfortable about that but dylan being dylan never takes no for an answer he goes into full manipulative mode
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he can't have his masculinity questioned by some mere woman it's a very misogynist
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it's a very male dominant attitude and it unfortunately extends to the worst possible outcome
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in early august 2016 much to the relief of her family and friends 24 year old alice ruggles
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had told harry dylan that she no longer wanted to be in a relationship with him she moves out of a house that she's been
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sharing housemates who've seen this decline in her character she moves in with a friend
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she's working for a media hub in newcastle and she moves in with someone who works
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there and they have a ground floor flat in gateshead which they share alice was trying to regain control of
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her life at this point dylan is very much of the mindset i will get what i want i am
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going to get alice back because she is mine so he starts bombarding her with phone calls
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[Music] what's going on here is this is a fully grown adult man essentially having a
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tantrum you know drawing on these different tactics out of desperation in the hope
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that one of them is going to work i don't even know if you're getting wise
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mrs please can you call me back thank you dylan was relentless and bombarded alice
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day and night her phone was constantly pinging and and it was always him and she wanted him to move on of course he
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became the boyfriend who wouldn't go away she wanted him to move on but this isn't a guy who's love sick
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who's missing his ex-girlfriend this is somebody who's had something taken away
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from him that he feels entitled to alice blocked dylan's phone number though she could still hear his
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voicemails and his particular technique was the veiled threat so he'd never say i'm
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going to do this to you he would say if i was a bad guy i'd do this to you but
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i'm not so i won't it was always framed like that alice tried to block dylan on facebook and
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found that her account had been hacked he was controlling her her social media so he'd actually
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um got control of her facebook account i'm guessing she she left her phone or
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laptop around um with it still switched on so he took the password and and she knew that he had the password and he
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then um meant that he could control what was on the account monitoring and surveillance behaviors
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are something we come across a lot in cases like this and very often the victim won't be aware of the fact that
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the perpetrator is essentially spying on them the availability of spyware and this kind of technology is is really
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quite widespread now dylan claimed to have intimate photographs of alice and threatened to release them on her social
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media accounts she had no idea what those photographs were and she was really anxious about it
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she didn't tell me about this till quite a little while later because i think she felt that it was some it was
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embarrassing thing to talk about it's embarrassing to talk to your mum about
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it and i suspect she would have been embarrassed to go to the police about it and so that was perhaps the reason why
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she didn't go to the police needing a break alice went to visit her sister in germany who introduced her to
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a new man she really liked him and they arranged to meet soon back in england the only people who knew about alice's
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new friend was her family nowhere on social media or anything was was this mentioned
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but of course alice was whatsapping him and we knew all about this in the family whatsapp
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we had a a family whatsapp going so wherever we all were in different corners of the world even or whatever we
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were always in communication so we knew about this alice was finally beginning to enjoy her
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life again she was reconciling friendships um she was exploring a new relationship this
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should have been the start of something really good for her but unfortunately dylan was not going to tolerate that
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saturday the 1st of october 2016 alice was at home in her ground floor apartment in gateshead
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so alice was on her own in the flat and then there's this knock on the front
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door and when alice looks out of the little peephole there's no one there and obviously that's worrying and it
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happened two or three times at intervals during the course of the evening and then she goes to bed and then after
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she's gone to bed there's this knock on the window right behind her bed and when she opens the curtains he's
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there he's jumped in over that wall and he's left flowers and chocolates on the windowsill
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he's backing off as if to say okay i'm going now after leaving the flowers and chocolates
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dylan left alice a chilling voicemail he really loved alice he'd never ever thought about killing her and he left
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the flowers and chocolates there because he didn't want to kill her and and he kept mentioning killing her i
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think it was about seven or eight times in the conversation this is is language which really does
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set my radar off and alice is the best judge of her level of risk so she knows dylan incredibly well she knows that the
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patterns of his behavior and this incident is serious enough to have her calling the police she really does feel
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in danger at this point in time hi there and i just need a bit of advice really and more than anything i split up
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with my boyfriend about three months ago he's hacked into my facebook and also my
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phone tonight he's um well i had a knock at my door and well he sent me a message saying
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i've been in the garden since five i had to knock at my door and then and he's
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come around the back knocked on my bedroom window he's like left um some flowers and chocolates my
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friends have been telling me to call the police well it's being noted the incident number which is 59
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59 brilliant thank you [Music] alice was comforted by the police response and a police information notice
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or pin was issued against dylan in theory the pin would stop dylan from approaching alice again
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at the time alice thought that that she was protected and so she felt much better and for three or four
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days after that then um she went to work and and people at skye said that she was was was
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almost back to her old self and she was happy again [Music] dylan is somebody to whom the rules
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don't apply he thinks he's above the law he's not going to be told by anybody
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else what to do and this is a characteristic that we see a lot in abusers like him
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four days after the pin had been issued to dylan alice received a parcel in the parcel were some personal items
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of alice's and a letter from dylan and he said uh you don't need to worry i
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i um i will never come near you again um i know you've got a new man and that was that in that last bit was
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horrifying in itself because alice had met someone new about two or three weeks earlier alice had gone to great lengths
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to keep her new romance off social media the only people who knew were her family
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we believe he must have installed software on her phone um spyware um so that he was actually spying on the
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whatsapp conversations which is a scary thought looking back um but we there was no other way he
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could have known of the existence of her new boyfriend alice called the police again hoping to
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talk to the same officer who had previously helped her but unfortunately when alice phoned the police she got a
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call back from somebody who was quite unsympathetic and they made alice feel that she was
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making a fuss about nothing and they asked her if she wanted him arresting but unfortunately the way they asked it
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was you know what you want us to do about it arrest him as if it was the most ridiculous thing in the
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world so alice said well well no i suppose not alice was completely deflated alice um rang me and told me about this
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second approach from the police and she was so unhappy because she said you know she said on the phone
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she said mom it's just never gonna stop he is never ever gonna leave me alone
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and uh so difficult as a parent to know what to say because i really naively and stupidly just wanted
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to make her feel better so i said well yeah well alice if you just keep ignoring him just keep ignoring him he
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will eventually go away and leave you alone october the 12th 2016. alice's flatmate maxine mcgill came home
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from work she'd forgotten her keys but knew alice was there unable to get alice to answer the door
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she climbed through an open window please i'm just i've just come back to
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my flight and the door was locked so rolling roads you're doing really well maxine
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i don't know what to do october the 12th 2016 alice ruggle's flatmate maxine had found
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her lying motionless in the bathroom of their flat in a pool of blood paramedics
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pronounced 24 year old alice ruggles dead as maxine had told the emergency services in her opinion there was only
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one suspect maxine mcgill knew exactly what had happened to alice because she knew just how scared she was
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of harry dylan and just what he was capable of and that 999 call haunting 999 call
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of maxine telling the police that her friend was dead and telling them straight away
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harry dylan has done it he's a psychopath senior forensic scientist michelle
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walton was the lead scientist at the crime scene there was lots of blood staining within
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the scene and this painted a picture of what in my opinion had happened to alice within
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that room in my opinion the distribution suggested that she had been positioned over the shower tree at the time she had
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sustained the significant injury to her throat the distribution of blood within the
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bathroom itself and on herself would suggest that perhaps she'd attempted to get to her feet having been
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on her knees but fundamentally she hadn't been upright having sustained the injury to
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her throat before she came to rest in front of the bathroom door there was one man the police wanted to
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question within five hours trimming harry dylan was apprehended at his barracks and
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brought to the station in newcastle for questioning officers were also dispatched to alice's
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parents home in leicestershire england they basically told us that the alice was was dead
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i think we immediately looked at each other and said his name we knew instantly who'd done it
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i knew that there was no way i could stand up and let the policeman out i just there's just no way i could stand
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up because i just all the blood had stopped circulating and i you know it's just like the worst thing you could
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possibly imagine when dylan was first questioned by the police he denied having made any contact
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with alice that evening at this point his objective is self-preservation and he's just sitting
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there he's keeping calm because i think he is that arrogant that he thinks he's
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got away with this a few days before the murder we discovered that he'd made a
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reconnaissance trip down to newcastle because we found a photograph on his phone of the rear bathroom window at
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alice's flat he plainly been down to see how he might be able to get into the property when
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presented with cctv evidence that his vehicle was seen traveling from edinburgh to newcastle on the day of the
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murder and that his mobile phone had pinged off several mars along that route his story changed
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i drove down towards newcastle and because i was i just i just wanted answers so i drove down to speak to her
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[Music] he was then shown dash cam footage of his vehicle parked near alice's
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apartment within the time frame of the murder he then stated it had all been an accident which he would continue to
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claim throughout she'd accidentally stabbed herself through the nose with the knife
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she'd accidentally cut her own forehead with the knife and she'd accidentally
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slashed her throat open at least six times causing that terrible and fatal injury
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when he's being interviewed he is just kind of responding in the moment and his stories don't stack up
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that there's not evidence to support the version of events that he's putting
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across the evidence was mounting against dylan the police now needed the forensic
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evidence to place him in the bathroom where alice was murdered in terms of an offender they might often
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discard the clothing that they're wearing but they don't usually get rid
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of things that are personal to them such as watches jewelry or even footwear some
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people might only have one pair of shoes so we suggested that if he had anything on him
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such as jewelry or a watch or wool glasses or his footwear then we could examine those relatively quickly
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he did actually have a helpful hero's wristband and a silver bracelet that were recovered from him at the time of
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the arrest so these were fast-tracked to the laboratory so there was a small amount of blood that could be seen
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microscopically um it was caught in the recess of the lettering it was present in the o of the heroes
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and the r of the organization part of the wristband but there was only two small blood stains present so they were
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sampled onto a swab and then they were sent for dna analysis and we were able to obtain a profile that matched the dna
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profile of alice ruggles this placed dylan in the apartment and in contact with alice's blood
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a bloody fingerprint on the steering wheel of his car was also a match to alice no murder weapon was found and alice's
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phone was missing at the time i did not believe that he was capable of doing what he did but if i knew
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then everything i know now about stalking and controlling behavior it was so obvious so that was what he
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was going to do within 36 hours on friday the 14th of october the police had enough evidence
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to charge dylan for the murder of alice ruggles april 2017 the trial of truman harry dylan for the
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murder of alice ruggles was at newcastle crown court the case for the prosecution was
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presented by richard wright qc we could prove that harry dylan had been inside the
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flat with alice at the time that she died we could prove that he was obsessive that he'd stalked her
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[Music] but we had to prove that he'd also murdered her that is he had caused those terrible injuries
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we all react in different ways so i think some some of us had the anger i never had that i think i was just
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numbed it's almost as if some part of the time you're you're you almost feel as if
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you're looking in on this and then then you know in waves you realize no this is
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really really happening to me and this this guy is really he's just killed our daughter and he's
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just standing there in front of us well the story that he gave at trial was quite incredible
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he said that having got into her flat she was terrified and that she had armed herself with a knife
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that he had simply been trying to calm her down and remove the knife from her and he gave this story that she had
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inflicted all of these injuries on herself accidentally with the knife what i hadn't been prepared for was the
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fact that he was trying to be controlling even in that courtroom and he basically presented his version of
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events it just kept coming back to me what alice had said to me he doesn't know what the truth is
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and you know he was he was changing his story every time a little bit of different
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evidence came up his story changed to try and accommodate that evidence and it was all
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it's complete nonsense even at one point as he was describing alice bleeding to death on the bathroom
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floor he turned to the public gallery in a moment i'll never forget looked alice's dad
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straight in the eyes and said to him that it was a shame he couldn't protect
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his daughter i mean he tried to claim that alice's dying words were that she hated her
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sister which was just completely weird i i just don't i just don't understand how anyone could
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be so evil and horrible within two hours dylan was convicted unanimously by the jury for the murder
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of alice ruggles at her home in gateshead on the evening of october the 12th 2016.
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i don't think the verdict really mattered to harry dylan what mattered to him was that he'd had
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the stage he'd had two or three weeks when the whole world was focused on him which was
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something that he loved [Music] truman harry dylan was sentenced to life in prison to serve a minimum of 22 years
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a further 10-year tariff would have been added but the judge dismissed that the murder was premeditated because it
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didn't appear that dylan had arrived at alice's apartment with a knife he has
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been given you know the the sentence he deserved in law um but of course for us we have a a a life
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sentence because um alice will never be back with us dylan appealed the sentencing decision
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which was never brought before the court and finally abandoned since losing alice sue clive and their
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family have set up the alice ruggles trust and dedicated their lives to raising the awareness of and putting an
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end to stalking i feel that we've got to raise a generation in 10 or 15 years time when today's
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teenagers tomorrow's young professionals and tomorrow's young society we need to
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raise a generation for whom mention of the word stalking shocked and shocks people and we've got to bring
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about that change the police later apologized admitting lessons have been learned everybody who
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alice had asked for advice felt i could have made better advice i could have done this differently
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and i think you know it is it's a sort of common grief reaction that you know i wish i had had done
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things differently but i think for all of ours we could have done things differently
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and if we'd spotted that stalking earlier could have kept alex alive and i think
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you know you we're never gonna we're never gonna recover from that because
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it would have made a difference truman harry dylan terrorized alice ruggles to fulfill his own twisted
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misogynistic ego he believed he could have any woman he wanted and that women should worship him
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and be flattered to receive his attention he took the life of alice ruggles because she had the audacity to
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say no to him making truman harry dylan one of the world's most evil killers
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