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in the summer of 1991 the town of Bathgate in Scotland welcomes some new arrivals Carol Jarvis
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and her three children settled into the community almost immediately but the father 41-year-old Harry Jarvis was not
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the loving family man that he tried to portray from the minute he met Carol he was determined that she was going to be
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a possession he didn't treat her well he treated her dreadfully in a Twisted plot
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to end the marriage Jarvis began drugging Carol and moved a new lover into the family's garden shed but the
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shed was basically just that a very small very basic shed dirty damp apart from a cover or a duv that and I think
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there maybe a couple of pillows there was no nothing else when his children began to suspect something was wrong
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Jarvis claimed their mother had traveled over 60 M away to Dundee but in reality
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Jarvis had murdered Carol and hidden her body under the floorboards when the police looked in that place very sadly
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they discovered the partially decomposed remains of what appeared to be female person Harry Jarvis had proved himself
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to be one of the world's most evil [Music] [Music] killers on the 14th of September 2009
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Graham Jarvis went to visit his sick Mom Carol when Graham arrived his mother wasn't there and his father Harry Jarvis
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refused to let him into the house it would be unusual for Mom not to be there and and do a disappear act you know Dad
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you would understand but Mom just never done that at all so I was like H something's all right here less than 24
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hours later Graham's dad Harry Jarvis went on the run with his lover who'd
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been Secret living in a shed in the garden the truth about what really happened in that house in bargate begins
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to emerge to the surface and everyone realizes that Jarvis is an absolute monster there can be no doubt about it
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Jarvis really does deserve a place in a rogue's gallery of evil Killers this killer Story begins 300 mil
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south of bargate in Lincolnshire on the east coast of England Jarvis was born in in Grimsby
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1950s he was a chancer always looking for the best deal for himself he was quite you know he was one of those
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people who is self-focused self- obsessed was never looking out for the good of other
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people little is known of Jarvis's childhood but as an adult he'd moved down to South London where he tried his
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hand at a few different careers is so dad's um employment is is varied if you
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like Dad used to switch between being an engineer and a bus driver and then went from bus driving to
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coach driving but he never really sort of stood on a on a job for long you know he
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used to sort of change a boat by the late 1970s Jarvis was still living and working in South London
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the 29-year-old had begun dating a younger woman named Carol mayard I think one was in a late late teens at the time
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and yeah I think Dad was obviously I think it was a 12 year age gap between the two mom was actually working in a
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shop at the time and dad had just sort of went into the shop and um just asked if they could go out on a date and it it
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went from there if you like the Rel relationship blossomed despite Carol's family being against the
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partnership the family would have looked at him looked at the age difference and
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and probably thought no no no this isn't good for Carol who's still relatively
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inexperienced in life and probably relatively naive in 1982 Carol married Jarvis and
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they went on to have four children together the couple decided to move over 400 miles away from London something
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their eldest son Graham remembers well about 91 we moved up to to Scotland it was a
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long way and you know obviously as kids we weren't really sure what was going on
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or the reasoning behind it apparently that was because he had lots of arguments with his family and things
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started falling apart down in London and he wanted to get away from everything and they went just
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as far as they could possibly go by by going to Scotland the Jarvis family settled in a
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small town called Bathgate in West loan about 20 mi west of Edinburgh the town was an
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ordinary westloan Town working people not a a particularly wealthy environment but not abject poverty
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Carol seemed to flourish in her new area becoming a brownie and Girl Guide leader
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I always remember like she was really good at sewing and you know sewing on the badges and on the the uniform or the
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the Sash and yeah I think she was generally happy and and love doing it mom was quite partial to dancing she
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was always again like at parties of the life and soul and sort of doing the twist or just really embarrassing M
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Danes to be fair but other than that I think generally her Hobbies were sort of limited just because they they for kids
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and you know growing up and balancing that out Jarvis continued his work as a coach
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driver doing longdistance Journeys and spending days at a time away from his family there was always some sort of
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Scandal involved in in terms of dad and and jobs you know and I always remember him you know getting a a job with a fish
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delivering company and you know all of a sudden we've got like tons and tons of
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fish in the freezer and it's like Dad what's going on and obviously it's time he's not
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delivered them you know and for all intens and purposes Jarvis was a perfectly ordinary comparatively hardworking bus
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driver but beneath the surface there were other more complicated things going on Jarvis had amassed a number of
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criminal convictions over the years for dishonesty offenses Jarvis was a petty Thief Li
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bezler a frauder and in that period of their marriage and their Carol's giving birth
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to the children and looking after them he goes to prison on a number of occasions he was always getting into
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scrap in criminality he didn't seem to be particularly grounded he was you know
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moving around and changing jobs he he wasn't a particularly stable person while transient Jarvis engaged in
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questionable Behavior Carol was holding the family together if anybody was to sort of put a label on M it would be you
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know loyal and definitely family driven she would put the family before herself and you know especially the four
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kids Harry Jarvis and Carol's relationship was tumultuous by the time they were living in Scotland but Carol
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did her best to Shield her children from the reality of the situation Carol was borted with him she would gloss over his
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faults and she would hide quite a lot from their children but the kids were aware that something wasn't right with
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their dad's Behavior they never knew what to expect from Jarvis as his moods
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were unpredictable growing up seeing Dad it was almost a bit of a an enigma you wouldn't sure what you would get with
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that and one day you would be you know fantastic and you know he used to do everything for
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you there was the times where by obviously was tired and you know when Dad was tired you would stay out of his
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way and then there would be other times where by you would be like where D and um nobody would know where he was and he
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would be away for a few weeks Harry Jarvis would often disappear for long periods of time with a family unsure
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about where he'd gone or when he'd be back I guess one of the most important
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times you know whereby I look back now was my birthday I think it was like I was 12 or 13 at a time
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and Dad wasn't there and we didn't know where he was again it just sort of resonates in
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terms of you know what sometimes it was there sometimes it was fantastic and other times you just didn't know what
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you were going to get it was you know jao and I by the mid 1990s 45-year-old Harry
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Jarvis was living in b gate Scotland with his wife Carol and their four children he was living a double life but
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what was he hiding from his family sometimes it would be for a few days sometimes it would be for a couple
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of weeks sometimes it would be for longer and he would just disappear and he would just return to
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the to the family home as if it hadn't happened at all when he did come back it
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would almost be like a a heat discussion as to you know what's happened but despite the arguments and uncertainty of
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where he'd been Jarvis always want Carol back around he disappeared for months
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and months and months at a time and would come back and you know Weedle his way back in with her again profess his
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undying love for her he would make excuses that you know it was the alcohol that caused him to
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disappear um when the reality was that he would meet people and sponge of them until their money ran out and then go
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back to Carol and she always took him back always while Jarvis was away from his
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wife he was spending time with other women Harry Jarvis was somebody who was capable of going off and doing whatever
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he wanted to do at any given time and it was clear that he had embarked in other
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relationships he was was clearly somebody who was capable of cheating on his wife as well as infidelity Harry Jarvis
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also had a problem with alcohol which had a further detrimental effect on his family life it did like a drink and you
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kind of knew and you would stay out his Road quite a lot of the fam's resources
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ended up being spent across the counter of the off sales or the public house Carol was you know forced to give him
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lots of money quite often and you know she would have to give him her money just you know to make him stay keep him
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happy she herself firmly believed that marriage was for life and that women would forgive their husbands for
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anything and Harry took advantage of that and took advantage of her her kind nature her loving
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nature these incidents surrounding money and alcohol left lasting memories for their
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children a lot of the the argument stemmed through money and when we were growing up in terms of you know Dad
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maybe spending it on alcohol and and cigarettes rather than food and stuff yeah it was
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difficult with Jarvis unable to hold down a job for long and going missing for months at a time it was Carol who
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made sure that children were looked after mom always made sure that we had food on the table always had
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clothes I think you know definitely a heart of gold rather than a pot of gold in in our purse if you
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like yeah we never went without it came as a blow to the family when Carol's Health suddenly started to
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decline and doctors tried to establish what was wrong with her mom started to get ill around about
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96 so and what was she 34 35 um at the time I just remember her being really learic and sore muscles all the time and
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he couldn't really figure it out for a good number of years the major problem
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was what was described as fibromyalgia she seems to have been rendered very weak and as a consequence
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of her weakness she took to bed we used to see her sort of lying down more maybe not being able to do as
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much physically mentally it was it was tough on her and you know um I guess that didn't really help obviously with
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the whole dad situation and disappearing and yeah difficult with Carol's health
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condition having such an effect on her ability to look after after herself Harry Jarvis was forced to give up work
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permanently and become a full-time carer for his wife so I think Dad I don't I
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don't know if it was by choice that he gave it up Mark to look after Mom Mom
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did get quite upset about you know not being able to do stuff uh for herself because of her conditions Carol was
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entitled to receive financial support he of saw this as an opportunity to control her even further
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and you know it was money for him as well you know they were claiming disability benefits and it was a way for
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him to basically just live off Carol because of her illness and she of course relied 100% on him he would have been
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interested in looking at that situation and saying how can I benefit from this situation is there any way that this can
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benefit me by 2009 Carol had been living with her debilitating illness for over a
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decade with all the children having flown The Nest to either start their own families or study at University Carol
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and Harry Jarvis were now living alone in their Bathgate home they'd all moved out and were
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pursuing their own lives so it was mostly just Harry Jarvis and Carol Jarvis in the house and Harry would
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attend to Carol he would assist her to use the toilet and would bring her food and perhaps most significantly he would
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attend to her medication and much of the uh medical attention that was given to her was in
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relation to her pain relief Carol relied on her seemingly caring husband for Round the Clock care but in reality
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Jarvis was still up to his old tricks how Jarvis would from time to time just drop out of the picture all together and
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would go off on missions of his own and when that happened the children would have to give
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up whatever they were doing themselves and go and look after their mom we used to sort of you know speak to each other
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as siblings and say like you know what like you know Dad's disappeared again
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the Jarvis children soon noticed something wasn't quite right when their dad was home and giving their mom her
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medication Carol would be in bed sleeping most of the day but it was a different story when they were in charge
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of giving her her tablets she immediately sort of got better or she was up and about and
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looking for Dad whereas if Dad was there she'd probably be sleeping if that makes
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sense it was almost like a an improvement that you could physically see when you were when you were there
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caring for them and it was a a question which the children had as to why she always seemed to be worse whilst in his
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care than in theirs the siblings knew there was something not right but they were too scared of their dad to question
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him about it I think at the time although we suspected that and we used to talk I don't think anybody would was
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kind of brave enough to to challenge him and we just accepted it for for what it
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was in 2009 Harry Jarvis did another disappearing act none of his family knew where he'd been but this time he didn't
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return alone he went on one of his walkabouts and returned to Bathgate with Rita now Rita is an
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interesting character she was adopted by a really quite wealthy uh businessman who had had a company which
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made pastry Rita had come into a significant inheritance from her adopted parent to
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the sum of2 and2 million she had had since her inheritance a series of what appeared to
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be unsuccessful relationships with men and somehow or other the money just evaporated by the time that she met
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Harry Jarvis and they became involved with one another to a very substantial extent the money had
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gone and then she met Harry she fell in love with him instantly and he promised her that they would be together forever
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and she saw him as some sort of comfort blanket because you you she'd gone through all that money she had nowhere
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to live she was homeless and Harry with her night and shining armor I think that possibly Javis saw
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her and thought haha this is somebody who either may have some money squirreled away or may be up for another
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inheritance with this family that she was involved in so he locked on to her knowing that 54-year-old Rita hter
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might already have spent her inheritance didn't stop Jarvis from fantasizing he was obsessed with riches
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and you know having lots of wealth and R was perfect for him because you know he
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deliberately blanked out that she had squandered her money he had pound signs you know in his eyes and that as far as
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he was concerned R would have more money Millions more than he could ever dream of so he thinks well
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this really is a meal ticket into a new world and at one point he even brags to the bid in his local pub that he's going
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to bleed arita dry Jarvis had brought Rita into his life but he couldn't bring
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her into his home as his chronically ill wife Carol was still there and it ended
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up in this absolutely ludicrous situation where Rita was living in Jarvis's shed at the bottom of the
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garden literally all that was in there was some kind of awful filthy mattress she was sleeping on the shed was
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basically just that a very small very basic shed dirty damp there was a plastic bucket in the
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corner presumably for her Comfort during the night but apart from a cover or a duv that and I think there maybe a
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couple of pillows that were in the shed there was nothing else so Rita was basically kept in the
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shed while har Jarvis was living in the house with his ailen wife but there was the promise that if
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we go through this shter amount of pain once Carol's out of the picture we've
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got the house we've got everything this is what they were both working towards
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in an attempt to speed up proceedings Harry Jarvis had begun sedating his wife so Carol was seemingly oblivious to the
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fact that another woman was living at the end of the garden he had started to overdose Carol with some of the
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medication that she had and that was certainly having an impact if she was aware that there was a woman living in
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the shed just right outside her bedroom with she never said and never gave any indication to anybody that she was aware
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of that Carol may not have known but the neighbors had started talking about the
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unusual living arrangements on their street TI t a local gossip told us that you know neighbors knew there was a
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woman living in the garden it seemed a bit of a tall tale at the start you know it's it's not something that you know
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you would expect to hear but Jarvis and Rita didn't seem to mind the locals knowing about them he would
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walk around time with her and you know openly affecting it Rita was said to have giggled like a school girl around
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Jaris and the two of them you know quite openly flaunted their relationship Harry Jarvis was living a
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double life a carer to his sick wife and a lover to a woman who was living in his
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garden shed Jarvis knew he needed to ENT end it with either Carol or Rita but who
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would he choose and how would he get out of the L triangle forever kimbery moved up to UNI I had
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already moved out Kev had moved out soon and moved out so there was the opportunity for Dad to do that whereas I
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think if one of us was still at home then that wouldn't have been a an option
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for him but the children still visited their mom on a regular basis and were often around Bathgate on the 11th of
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September 2009 Graham Jarvis bumped into his dad I had seen dad and he was a bit
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dazed you know and I always remember thinking I wonder what what was up with him and he done as usual you know do you
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have a couple of pound and I was like no I don't have changed cuz I knew again
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they would just spend it on drinks and cigarette you know from m point of view I thought you know what I'm not doing it
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anymore on that occasion Harry Jarvis wasn't in town alone at the time Graham
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didn't know who Rita was or her involvement with his father I remember physically seeing reer
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a couple of steps behind him and she had a suitcase and I never really said anything about it I sort of asked you
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know where's mom and he said oh she in the house sleeping I was like all right
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the weekend passed and grahe Jarvis had planned to visit his mom on the Monday evening like he did every week but
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earlier in the day Graham called his brother Kevin he's like I went around to
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the house earlier um and Mom wasn't there and I says what do you mean he says I spoke to Dad and she said he said
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like he was she was our way out somewhere I was like doesn't make sense he explained what that happened and he had
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went into to the house there was no sign of mom and dad was acting dodgy and I just remember thinking like
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you look do you on Friday you know there's something not quite right after sharing their concerns the brothers
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decided to go to the family home together we went to to Bath and sort of knocked on the the door at first and Dad
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came outside and even let us into the house and we said like Dad was going on like there's mom he was like oh we plan
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on moving up to dund while she's up in Dand looking for the house and she'll be
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back tomorrow now the son found that very odd because normally she required assistance
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to do that and there was no word of who was assisting and father was there didn't really hang together very well in
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the course of their investigations of the mother's whereabouts uh with the father he
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provided additional and what seemed to be contradictory accounts Harry Jarvis changed his story a number of times
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while trying to explain where his wife was I think the next excuse was that she was in rest bite care to give him a
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break and I think you know he then said that she was thinking about not coming back and was going to stay up north and
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she wanted to stay in a home all of the explanations that he gave for Carol's
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disappearance were implausible or absolutely crazy they were not thought through with the story about Carol not
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adding up and Harry Jarvis refusing to let his children into the house gram made the difficult decision to call the
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police it looked suspicious it sounded suspicious so we phed the the police and the police came out and and dad was
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quite calm in the garden and he was you know chatting away and sort of saying listen mom D it's fine and then the
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police said can we go in the house and he was like yeah you can you can't the two officers you know enter
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the house say where where's uh Carol and they search it and they find Rita hiding
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under the bed it almost defies belief but it gets even funnier Jarvis then says to the officers oh
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that's my wife Carol however another officer who had dealt with Jarvis several times and had
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met Carol because of a domestic call that she had been called out to at the house knew instantly that the woman
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under the bed wasn't Carol Jarvis the Jarvis children were only now becoming aware of their father's
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involvement with re they were now even Sher that something was wrong with their mom what ultimately is frustrating is it
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Bo the police basically said us listen because your mom's an adult we have to
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wait 24 hours and there's not much we can do sort of go home and we're all
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like that's rubbish we weren't sure what was going on you know she just presume
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that she's missing and you need to get to the bottom of it after an agonizing night of concern for
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her children the following day the police officially recorded Carol Jarvis as a missing
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person I went down to police station at report missing and one of the police officers said like we'll go around to
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the house and we'll try and look for belongings or presume any clues right Graham went to the house with the
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officer and started to look for any clues as to to where Carol may have gone one of the first things they saw at the
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property was Carol's purse mom doesn't go anywhere about a p so you know
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there's something definitely wrong now the discovery of Carol's purse meant the
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search for the missing 47y old was immediately stepped up it had been just over one week since Graham Jarvis had
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last seen his mom so they sent forensics and scenes of crimes officers and specialist search
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officers to look at the property and the garden to see if it would give any clue
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as the cattle's whereabouts the police did carry out a search and that included
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a search of a Cellar The Cellar below the living room in the house which was accessed from a
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hatch in the living room when the police looked in that place very sadly they discovered the partially
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decomposed remains of what appeared to be female person the space under the floorboards
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was known to the Jarvis children and it was almost like a cupboard door you opened it you would go down and
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certainly as kids we used to go down there used to play like hide and seek down there and stuff of that um and yeah
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it was quite a a big space the police had to let the Jaris children know that a body had been found at their parents'
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home the police basically said listen we found a a body we will do some you know
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checks you know to to formally identify it but it didn't take a genius to work
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out that you know what it was mom you know I just felt felt sick i' just been sick you're
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in shock and almost like what's going on like what's happened Carol's body had
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been wrapped in a duvet and bound with packing tape so it was clear to police that she'd been placed there by somebody
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attention turned to Harry Jarvis but nobody knew where he was Jarvis and Rita had disappeared detectives needed to act
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fast to find the man so used to disappearing following the discovery of Carol Jarvis's body under the
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floorboards of her house police wanted to talked to her husband Harry Jarvis the 59-year-old had gone on the run with
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his lover Rita and the police needed to find them fast Jarvis and Rita hter run they take off from bargate and they
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go to Perth where they stay in a BNB even more bizarrely they leave the BNB without
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paying which infuriates the owners of the bed and breakfast they were staying in who report them to the police and
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they described them and of course their descriptions exactly match Harry Jarvis and Rita Hiser the
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police were able to trace Jarvis and Rita using CCTV when the pair arrived in Edinburgh
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they were arrested and taken in for questioning the police were sure that Harry Jarvis had murdered his wife but
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their investigation hit a stumbling block when they tried to ascertain how Carol had
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died the state of decomposition was such that the pathologist who carried out the
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postmortem examination could not uh um identify what the mechanism of death had been what was the cause was it something
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organic was it some trauma what whatever it was it could not be ascertained what
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it was two postmortem failed to establish a cause of death and police were really struggling to put a case
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against Harry together when Harry was interviewed about his wife's death he gave an unusual explanation when police
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asked what had happened to Carol Harry said that she had had a fit during a sex game gone
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wrong actually said that she couldn't get out the fit and then she she passed
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away and I think that was his only explanation ever Jarvis told the police that he was so grief stucken by Carol's
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death that he couldn't bear to part with her so he put her under the floorboards
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to stay close to her and able to establish a cause of death it was hard for the police to
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prove that Harry Jarvis was lying about what had happened to Carol but the search of his house had
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uncovered some love letters written by Jarvis and R it was quite an odd relationship in
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that they would write love letters to each other even though she was living 10 ft away in the garden shed the notes
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that Harry and Rita shared with each other basically there was a usual um you know I love you I miss you we'll be
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together forever thing as investigating officers read through the letters one note in particular caught their
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attention he writes to her drugs doing their job the overmedication of Carol it's just taking
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longer than I thought we'll be together soon in Paradise Harry was making it clear that
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he wanted to be away from his wife he would somehow dispose of her and he would go with r and those were the
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messages he was giving Rita and at the same time he was acting in a manner towards his wife which was not in his
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wife's interest and detrimental to her health the Jaris children had noticed
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previously that their mom's condition improved when they were looking after her and these letters were proof that
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Harry Jarvis had been drugging his wife the police were able to use this in the case against him and take him to court
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for the murder of Carol Jarvis Harry Jarvis and Rita hter were charged by the police together with the
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murder of Carl Jarvis and Associated charges also R's lawyers applied for Rita to be tried separately to Jarvis
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and this application was granted by the court in early 2011 Harry's trial commenced at
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Edinburgh High Court the prosecution team knew it would be difficult to persuade the jury as all of the evidence
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in the case was merely circumstantial we have prepared by the police at the time to say that listen
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there's there's a possibility that it might not go our way we would advise L
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and you know we don't really feel 100% confident in this Harry jvis maintained
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his story that Carol had died from a fit during sex and that he was not guilty of
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the murder but the Love Letters proved to be his downfall the notes were a significant piece of evidence because it
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did indicate that Harry had malicious intent towards his wife I remember the jury's eyes widening
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when when that evidence was led it seemed to me it plainly had an impact on them har Jarvis was seen by the jury for
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the callous killer that he was and on the 30th of March 2011 they found him guilty of the murder
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of Carol Jarvis Jarvis was sentenced to life imprisonment after a fairly lengthy
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child in view of the gravity of the crime that he'd been convicted of he must serve that minimum term of 15 years
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in her own trial Rita hter was acquitted of Carol's murder as there was in sufficient evidence of her having any
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involvement in the killing however her DNA had been found on the packing tape that Carol's body was wrapped in
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suggesting that she had helped Jarvis hide the body under the floorboards on the evidence put to the jury Rita was
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found instead guilty of attempting to defeat the ends of justice and was sentenced to 4 and a half years in
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prison Harry Jarvis was the main perpetrator Ator in fact the sole perpetrator of the murder
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but that R had become embroiled with him and that Jarvis's manipulation had got
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her into that situation he was the one person who really was in charge of what was going
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on Harry Jarvis was sent to addwell prison just 5 and a half miles from the home he shared with Carol and their
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children [Music] for their kids the verdict was bittersweet they gave the guilty verdict
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so we were kind of delighted and I guess you know the the after that you you then start to
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sort of have the the sort of feeling of do know what you still dad I feel like you
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know and again it's that mixed emotions I feel like whereby you're on a high but
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then you're thinking to yourself you know what like he's so Dad so it's
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difficult on the 20th of April 2017 6 years into his life sentence Harry Jarvis reported pains in his chest
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to prison staff he collapsed in his cell and attempts to resuscitate him proved to be fruitless it was like half 12 I
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went and got the kids from school as I came around the corner I clocked the police car sitting there
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and just something inside me was like I know why they're there they go out the
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car I just said please please tell me he's dead and then that was it the children of that marriage between
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Harry and Carol Jarvis were in the most awful situation they had such a dilemma of trust they had a dilemma of loyalty
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because the her mom had gone and their dad had possibly been responsible for that but he was still their dad for gra
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the pain of his mother's murder still affects him yeah I can remember it like
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it was yesterday like down to the second I always you know drive past the house and have a we look or I'll sit there for
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5 minutes I always think to myself somebody's going to one day come out and go who are you cuz you keep appearing in
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your car and sitting there think it doesn't get any y by lying about the murder Harry Jarvis left his
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children with questions that will never be answered I think the frustrating thing is we'll never know as well you
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know what happened the Hari Jarvis was somebody who acted for the sole benefit really of Harry Jarvis he was a person
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clearly who thought only of himself he has achieved nothing except killing an innocent
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vulnerable wife who'd born in four children and loyally stood by him despite the womanizing despite the
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drinking despite him disappearing despite him stealing the disability allowance and the carers allowance if
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there is a word for Jarvis Beyond monster I would say it was Despicable his motivation for everything throughout
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his life was money from his you know fraudulent crimes deception everything Harry Jarvis did was motivated by
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money on the face of it you know Dad didn't read over plan and to sort of live together and rather than Dad just
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doing easy thing and splitting up with Mom he's obviously for you know what the
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best way out of it is to take M out the equation by hook or by Kook I know they say breaking up up hard to do and stuff
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but surely there's an easier way out then sort of um killing somebody Jarvis was a callous killer
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with no empathy for his wife or children after drugging and murdering Carol he hid her body under the floorboards and
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went on the run with his lover before spinning lies about what had happened a selfish and narcissistic manipulator
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Harry Jarvis will be remembered as one of the world's most evil killers [Music]