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