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