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in February 2016 CCTV on a residential street in North Shields Tyne and Weir in the north of
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England captured 43 year old Jimmy Prout being manhandled by a group of locals just three days after this footage was
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captured Jimmy would be dead the CCTV images are very clear they show his rapid decline in health the fact that
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he's being manipulated and controlled by other people it's clear he's just being
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used as some sort of punching bag the women shoving Jimmy were all loyal followers of a man who led a cult-like
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group in the small neighborhood 43 year old zahid Zaman the level of Terror and torture it is subjected to me proud to
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over a prolonged period of time this was a profoundly challenged man who needed help but he fell into the hands and the
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devil for four months Jimmy Prout was brutally tortured and humiliated by the man and
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his devotees before the poisonous sect imploded all pointing the finger of suspicion at each other ultimately the
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evidence demonstrated Beyond doubts that zahid Zaman was the central heart of this group and that he was the
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ringleader behind the violence that was used towards Jimmy zaheed's a man the false prophet had
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been exposed as one of the world's most evil killers [Music] [Music] foreign
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2017 zaheed Zaman was on trial for the murder of Jimmy Prout the man and his friends K rayworth Myra wood
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and Ann Corbett had slowly tortured 43 year old Jimmy after Zaman had apparently recruited him to his
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cult-like clan Paul greeny led the prosecution against the group there are combination of factors that
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make this case so particularly disturbing first of all the fact that a vulnerable
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man was subject to grotesque beatings over a period of time and to other humiliations
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the fact that zahid Zaman was able to persuade others to engage in those beatings
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and the fun that it was all to do with something that was so trivial the man believed Jimmy had been involved in the
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theft of some of his tools and this led the 43 year old to turn on the vulnerable father of two journalist
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Jeremy Armstrong covered the trial at Newcastle Crown Court when you listen to cases like this which
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are so extreme in the nature of the violence is so extreme and you know to use torture in any context is
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inexplicable but saman was just a particularly evil man who enjoyed manipulating people and using violence
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to control people and there was no good reason to do that to Jimmy above and beyond the fact that he could
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[Music] I've been involved in cases that have involved truly terrible killings so I've
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seen some bad people and zahid Zaman is up there one of quite possibly the most manipulative
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controlling and terrible people I've ever encountered this killer Story begins on the 19th of
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December 1973 but not much is known about zaheed's a man's past it would be fair to say that zaman's
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background is fairly shadowy we do know that he lived in Sheffield he was according to him injured at one
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point in a quote serious traffic accident we knew that he had joined dating websites and we knew that he had posted
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extravagant claims about himself on those websites for example posting photographs of himself alongside gold
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bullion this tells me this is somebody who wants to put across the idea that he's wealthy
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that money is something that is important to him it was a tactic that worked by 2005 31
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year olds a man had met a woman from North Shields near Newcastle 44 year old K rayworth they began a relationship
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after meeting on Facebook it must have been reasonably serious for him to move all the way from Sheffield
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the man was most definitely not genuinely looking for love I think when he came across rayworth and realized
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that she had property that parasite within him activated and he decided right I'm gonna go up there I'm going to
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move in with her and I'm going to stake my claim on the things that she has foreign North Shields resident Helen
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O'Keefe was an acquaintance of raywas I've known care for a long time and you
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are before she got involved with it with zed as we call him um and you are before that
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she was distant oh she was a carer she was lovely she was a genuine named person was
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and that all changed once you got involved with him she seemed more withdrawn and she did lose a
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lot of contact with people there's a man settled into the area and soon had a notorious reputation around
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the town I don't recall that there was evidence that established that zaheed's a man
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worked at any staged during the time that he lived in the north Shields area there was evidence that he claimed
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benefits causing real difficulties for those of the benefits office there was evidence that he relied upon Charities
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again treating those who were the charity in an unpleasant way [Music] there did seem to be this perception of
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fear of him on one occasion you know neighbors did report that he was seen hitting K with his stick
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tells me that the man thinks that this is something completely reasonable to do he doesn't see it as something that is
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unacceptable as something that is illegal so his behavior towards her is very revealing about his kind of
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boundaries around what's acceptable and what's not acceptable those boundaries would continue to be
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pushed as a man's physical health appeared to deteriorate he went from walking with crutches to being
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wheelchair bound but rumors amongst locals suggest he may have been embellishing his injuries he certainly
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had the ability to spin a good story I think he probably convinced a lot of people that he was a lot more disabled
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than he was the locals in his area of North Shields found him argumentative tempestuous and also to put it politely
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a fraud because they said couldn't walk and yet a couple of them actually remember him running for a bus
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that's a miracle it was just like it was just a standard thing with him or he has
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the miracle of the walking Miracle as soon as the bus comes out was it local resident Helen also had a run-in
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with Zaman I was doing care work but I was helping the community at the time and my car was off the road so I was
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waiting outside in the gate to get picked up and Zed was coming along with key and all the bins were out ready for
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collection and he was deliberately with his chair he was deliberately driving into the
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bins not when the bins down but obviously he didn't do men because I was standing there
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and I says well why did you do that and then he started giving me a mouth I was a [ __ ] I was all sorts
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so that's when yet another argument had started in the street you know and it was just he thought he
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could confront people and nobody would say anything back he's the neighbor from hell he's
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confrontational he's antagonistic and when he has an altercation with somebody
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he's not just going to let it go he's someone who's something of a grievance
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collector so when somebody wrongs him he will react in an entirely disproportionate way
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there's a man went to elaborate lengths to get revenge on someone he felt had
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wronged him one thing that evidences how vindictive was a letter that he forged from a
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housing officer which was full of racist slurs now he'd taken offense at her when
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he hadn't got the benefits that he felt entitled to so he engages in this campaign against her
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basically use the letterhead which this woman had written to him and invented a letter where she was being racist and
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abusive towards him and then reported her for that racist abuse which was obviously uncovered as being fig and
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being false but I think the good of those kind of lens and to do that in order to carry out revenge on an
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official who he barely knew just built for some perceived slight over something incredibly mundane gives you an idea of
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what a dangerous and deceitful and manipulative man he was really but 39 year old zaheed's a man was more
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manipulative than anyone could possibly imagine and his ability to lure people into his world was just beginning to
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become apparent Zaman was in the relationship with k-ray worth but then later on he started an
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online relationship with Myra wood who then moved into a local address as well Myra wood was in her 50s we are not
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talking about impressionable teenagers we're talking about women of maturity
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and of considerable intelligence it would have been a gradual chipping away at these women making them feel
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dependent upon Him of making them feel valuable and worthy when perhaps they wouldn't have felt that way previously
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in their lives he really is an accomplished Predator he knows exactly the things to say to people to bring
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them into his fold and it wasn't just women that saman was recruiting another North Shields
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resident who would fall under the cult-like leader's spell was Jimmy Prout here's the six of eight children and as
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a result of his father working away quite a bit his mum was left with the responsibility for the family which I
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think she struggled with at times his mum quite understandably found it difficult to cope with eight children
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that meant that both Jimmy and some of his siblings spent periods of time in care during his childhood and there was
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little doubt that that was something that Jimmy had found difficult he was a father of two he struggled for
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work really so he worked odd jobs I think it'd be fair to say it was kind of
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on the periphery of society in the sense that he spent some time homeless I think
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and also was a regular user of food banks and unfortunately he came under the influence over Saeed Salam
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although it's not known exactly how they met at some point Jimmy Prout unfortunately crossed paths with zaheed
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Zaman the indications were that zahid Zaman wished to surround himself with people who were subservient to him who
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would do what he wanted them to do and that to that end he was visiting places where he knew there would be vulnerable
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people so he could recruit them to his group thank you the evidence didn't establish with
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certainty when it was that Jimmy first met saheed as a man but it seemed likely that he had met him at some stage
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probably during the course of 2015 when Jimmy was visiting soup kitchens and we knew that zahidza man was visiting those
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areas seeking as we suggested to identify individuals who were vulnerable Jimmy joined K rayworth and Myra wood in
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zaman's gang of amateur acolytes the group dynamic was striking at the heart
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of the group was saheed saman he was very much in control of the the others the female members of the group
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were all people with whom he was having or had had a relationship and into this group came Jimmy a vulnerable individual
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he was a man's lucky the fact that Jimmy was the only other male in the group is quite a significant
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one because the man is somebody who doesn't want any challenge to his position to
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his power to his authority so when he brings Jimmy into the group it's because
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he's confident that he can control him he's confident that he can willpower
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over him the final member to join the group was 24 year old Ann Corbett who met Jimmy at
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a soup kitchen the two became close friends despite their 18-year age Gap and Corbett was the youngest member of
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the group by some distance there was no doubt that she'd had a difficult background
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that she was vulnerable to some extents and she was there for the very kind of person that zahid Zaman was seeking to
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incorporate into his group by 2015 all five were living in two houses on the same street both owned by
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K rayworth she and zaheed Zaman lived in one property while just down the road Jimmy Myra wood and Ann Corbett shared a
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home in effect they were one household under two roofs the man invited Jimmy to live at
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rayworth's property now this is a classic coercively controlling tactic you take somebody away from their
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Community away from their friends and family you isolate them you increase their dependency upon you and I think
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that's definitely what was going on here perhaps he hoped that his relationship
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with Corbett would somehow be his savior perhaps he hoped that Zaman would to some extent provide him
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with the family that he never really had but for whatever reason Jimmy Prout became the target
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of this odious cruel malevolent cult unbelievably the man who is viewed as an aggressive bully to the locals could do
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no wrong in the eyes of the four people who seemingly worshiped him behind closed doors one of the Striking things
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about the evidence was the extent to which there was a difference between the way in which he was perceived within the
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community as opposed to the way in which he was perceived within his particular group
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[Music] in the broader Community he was regarded as being an irritating and unpleasant
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person not an impressive kind of person but within his small group he was regarded
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as being really all-powerful he was like the ring leader and always had to walk behind him there was no way
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could any of them have walked alongside him walked in front of him it was always
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though always behind him he wanted that respect [Music] child that were afraid of him
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but they went along with it he was Maleficent if he was controlling and unfortunately poor Jimmy found
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himself at the focus of that as well you know being asked to run errands on his behalf to jobs on his behalf that became
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a part of the control of Jimmy early on really so he was almost a member of the group
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and then he turned against him for the most random Mercurial of reasons and Corbett had a brother
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came to believe that the brother had stolen some tools of his not particularly valuable at all
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nonetheless something belonging to zaheed Zaman and so he's a man given his vengeful personality wanted to get his
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own back but he couldn't get to the brother the brother had moved away from the area
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he thought that Jimmy had played some part in What had happened and so Jimmy became the focus for his Vengeance
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progressively the group turned on Jimmy and started to not only ask him to do things in terms of errands but force him
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to do things using violence then they'll all get their violence towards him it
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was very much at the instigation of Zaman but that was the kind of control which was one of the really strange
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Dynamics and dimensions of this group zaheed's a man a man known for his angry
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retaliations focused all his rage on Jimmy Prout and this time he had an army to do his bidding Jimmy was being abused
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for a prolonged period of time and people will ask why didn't he walk away but the reality is that people who are
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abused don't all behave in the same way some do run some do complain but there are many
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people who for whatever reason remain and Jimmy was one of those people [Music] nobody knew because even them living in
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that house he had the windows boarded up and all that so that was odd in itself but nobody thought for one minute just
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because the windows were boarded up what was going on inside he's under the control of this one
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individual who is coercive who is controlling and that happens to many many people it happens in domestic
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violence situations as well so being an adult or being a man or a woman doesn't
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mean you can necessarily walk away they'd already got their talons into him and they were already controlling him
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Jimmy was tortured over a number of months this wasn't just one incident this was a series of incidents that took
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place over a significant period of time and the man has a very strong sadistic streak he quite enjoys seeing people
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suffer he also enjoys taking away people's freedom and their Liberty and this is essentially what he was doing
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with Jimmy this is textbook coercive control it's a gradual chipping away of
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somebody until they're a shell of their former self obviously we didn't know what was going
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on behind closed doors well you would see him and he seemed to look distant he wasn't what he was when when he first
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appeared into the group sort of thing he seemed very very distant withdrawn and he was a bit I got Logan
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that's just a shame [Music] from the Dark Ages nothing that's really appropriate description
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the notion of someone being tortured and held in that way for such a long period
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of time and been under the control of someone is obviously most unusual most extreme and the nature of the torture
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was obscene really there were many ways in which Jimmy was subject to humiliating treatment
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there was evidence of his teeth haven't been removed and obviously the real nadir the worst
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of it was when his um his testicle was removed and and he was forced to it was placed in his mouth
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Jimmy was forced to eat his own testicle and this shows that even in his sadism the man is morbidly creative these are
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things that he would have thought through these won't just be things that have come up at the spur of the moment
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that he's just decided to do on any given day there's quite a level of detail that goes into this kind of
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suffering and I think humiliation is ultimately the goal here because by humiliating Jimmy he's again chipping
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away at his his sense of personhood his sense of self and he's 100 in control of
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him it is absolutely horrifying and yet proud doesn't run he doesn't go to the police
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he doesn't really know what to do on the 27th of November Jimmy Prout took himself to North tyneside General
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Hospital but he lied to doctors about how he'd sustained his multiple injuries
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people knew that Jimmy was sustaining injuries people knew or must have known that he was sustaining those injuries as
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a result of assaults and we know that on certainly one occasion he had been to hospital
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so why wasn't anything done by the people who knew that was happening the answer to that question I think in
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part is because zaid's a man was causing Jimmy to lie about what had happened to
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him causing Jimmy to say that a person or person's other than zahid a man and
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his gang were causing those injuries Jimmy posted pictures of his wounds on social media the brutality of his
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treatment was clear to see but once again he didn't say how he'd sustained
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the injuries you can see he's been subjected to repeated episodes of blunt force trauma
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in particular at the top of his shoulder for example is a very large bruise he's also got other bruises which you
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can see on his body that would be consistent with him over periods of time receiving quite heavy
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blows the Facebook pictures were just awful and really vividly showed how badly beat need being you know I mean we're
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talking about somebody who was physically uh assaulted on a regular basis in order to control them really to
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the point where I think probably was so weak that he didn't know where to turn
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[Music] I would imagine that part of the abuse cycle would have been that he wasn't
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being fed properly therefore it's most likely that he continued to lose weight
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and together with the repeated episodes of trauma his body would have found it more and more difficult to heal from
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those episodes of trauma thank you there's always covered up and he always wore jackets regardless what the weather
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was it was always jackets and then I thought much of it at the time was just that's where he wants to
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dress that's it but obviously he was covering things up oh they were being recover things up
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[Music] the photograph that was most striking for me was where he's taken a photograph
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of his face and you can see the injuries on his face but you can also see where his teeth are missing
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he's put these pictures on social media he was asking for help he didn't get it
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the last time I saw him he was hobbling and he was very very slow and he had care and and either side of him I don't
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remember the wall I just thought as he had some kind of fall as is as he took bad you know is
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and that's that's they were helping him he was too weak to escape I think it got
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to the stage where the suffering was so great that he was unable to get away I think for a variety of different reasons
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not only the injuries but also the kind of the mental control that the man had over him the constant beatings and
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horrendous torture eventually became too much for Jimmy Prout by the morning of the 9th of February as
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a result of the treatment he'd received Jimmy was dead and the defendants knew that this was a
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problem for them and they were thinking only about themselves not about Jimmy so what they did was to take his body
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place it in sleeping bags and take it in a wheelchair to a wooded area beside an
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a road and dump there's another word for it his body there Jimmy Prout is treated like garbage
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he is simply thrown away they've had their fun gone that's the end of that
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[Music] he was a victim in the worst possible way helpless defenseless tortured and in the
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end killed by people whom I think he thought would be his saviors the exact reverse was the case
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by late March 2016 Jimmy Prout had been dead for six weeks but nobody knew he was even missing
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foreign there was no formal report by zahid saman or anyone else within his group of
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the fact that Jimmy was missing but what they were doing was going around all Shields going around
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Newcastle and saying to anyone that would listen where is Jimmy and their purpose was to give the
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impression first of all that they were concerned about him and secondly that he might still be alive
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but behind the boarded up Windows of zaheed zaman's home there was dissension
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in the ranks there was a fracture in the relationship between Zaman and iron corbus
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saman was concerned that Ann Corbett was going to confess what had really happened
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he's used to be to be so when 's case starts to unravel and that the risk that Corbett is going
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to go and tell the authorities about what happened he needs to get ahead he needs to get in there first because even
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though he's lost control over the series of events he hasn't lost control over
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the narrative he can still craft a story around this zaheed Zaman decided to pick up the
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phone and dial 999 on the 25th of March 2016. six weeks after Jimmy had been murdered
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zahid's a man made a telephone call to the police in that call he claimed that he had been
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attacked by Ann Corbett and that in the course of what followed she had confessed to him that she had murdered
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Jimmy the police understand that we went round to the house where they were confronted
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by zahid saman apparently inconsolable screaming and crying in apparent grief they found three people there there was
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k-ray worth Myra wood and also Zaman all of them were distressed Zaman was crying
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and they were trying to console him Zaman said that he had asked Anne about Jimmy Pratt and Anne had said that she
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had killed him the man has an awful lot of power over these women he is the leader and they
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are his followers so he convinces two of them to go along with the story that Corbett is the aggressor she's the one
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who's caused Jimmy's death so let's all stick together on this and we throw her
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under the bus essentially this shows that the loyalties within this household this group are all to the man they are
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not to each other foreign on the 26th of March 2016 investigators decided to arrest all four members of
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the group despite the fact that Jimmy's body hadn't been found 25 year old Ann
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Corbett told detectives about his demise in her first conversation with the police
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Corbett insists that yes she tried to strangle Jimmy Prout but hadn't killed
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him it was her brother well the police quickly discovered that brother was nowhere near that Street in
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North Shields when Prout died at this stage in proceedings Corbett has been physically separated from the man
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for quite some time this is perhaps the first time that she spent a significant period of time with other people with
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people outside of this cult-like group and I think that's played a role here in
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terms of what she did next so she speaks to her solicitor and then her story changes the game so you're starting to
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see cracks in the control that the man has over these women when they're physically distant from him
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on the 27th of March after following Ann Corbett's directions police discovered
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Jimmy's body in a wooded area just meters from his home he'd been dead for
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more than six weeks although Jimmy's body was decomposed and didn't allow the pathologist to identify
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cause of death there were several fractures of various ages present within the body
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he has been subjected to repeated episodes of violent trauma the torture which he's been subjected to
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is Medieval I mean it's things that you read in horror books is not really something that happens
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in a residential area in the UK it's beyond thinking about the everyday person would not believe that that level
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of abuse and violence would occur to a fellow human being the truth about Jimmy prout's final
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moments finally came to light from a five o'clock in the morning of February the 9th 2016
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there are a series of telephone calls between Zaman Corbett and wood we were to discover
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later that Zaman and rayworth had turned up at the other house in the same street
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and Zaman had ordered Corbett to gag Jimmy Prout with a pair of trousers the argument about oh he's causing such
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a lot of noise Jimmy Prout would never make another sound he died soon after the tight-knit group now began playing
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the blame game [Music] these people have lived in this little vacuum this household this this group
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that's been quite separate from the rest of the community or other outside voices
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so when they're in a room with police officers and legal Representatives being
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asked questions I think they begin to realize that actually I need to look out for myself now
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what the four defendants were doing ultimately he was as lawyers were putting cutting each other's throats and
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in a sense that made the job of the police and the prosecution easier we knew that they were going to accept that
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violence and lawful violence and violence of a terrible nature had been used towards Jimmy so the real questions
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became did and who didn't do it with all four suspects remanded in custody investigators began to look for evidence
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from the days leading up to Jimmy's murder CCTV on the street where the group lived
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captured them on a few different occasions moving between the two houses they shared
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the first CCTV image is October the 18th in 2015 where you can see Jimmy Pratt walking along and he seems to be quite
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fit and healthy it's at that point that we know that their relationship changes
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and the relationship that he has with the rest of group really goes downhill mistreatment and torture of Jimmy Prout
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had begun on the 5th of February in 2016 we see Jimmy Prout again and on that occasion
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he's just been pushed along the road you can see that his physical condition has
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deteriorated but he is being pushed along an ease mobile on February the 6th we see Jimmy Prout
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again on this occasion you can see that his physical demeanor has completely changed he's
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literally being dragged along the road you can see that he can't hold himself
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up you can see that he's got something wrong with his leg his arm and he's in a
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very very bad physical condition that image of Jimmy Prout being dragged along is the last time that there are
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any images of him being seen alive just three days later Jimmy Prout would be dead the only thing you don't see is
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salmon you don't see Zaman forcing him down the road or controlling him because
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he didn't need to physically intervene he seemed to have this mental sort of
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ability to control the rest of the group so they did his bidding while searching
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Zaman and k-ray was home detectives discovered a set of audio recordings which shed light on who the ringleader
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of Jimmy's abuse was the key thing from the police perspective was this attack where you
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could be heard in the background of this recorded call actually attacking Jimmy and assaulting him during the course of
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making the call so it became clear from the evidence that I got from the flat that he was the
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main protagonist during police interviews Katie rayworth confessed to another horrendous act
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images of the group at an ATM captured After Jimmy had been killed confirmed her story
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the evidence demonstrated that at some point after Jimmy's body had been dumped
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members of the Zaman group went back to the body they took from the body Jimmy's bank
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card and they then used the bank card to withdraw hundreds of pounds from his account
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and to any right-minded person that shows that they were disgusting Mr filter contemplate how he could do
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without really remove a bank card from the decomposing body which is what they did
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along with Ann Corbett the other members of the group K rayworth Myra wood and zaheed Zaman were all charged with
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Jimmy's murder local North Shields residents were shocked you just don't think for one minute for
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a group of people are actually prepared to do something like that what goes from the mind of why why would
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they why doesn't make sense on the 3rd of May 2017 zaheed's a man and his three misguided disciples went
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on trial at Newcastle Crown Court all four admitted to perverting the course of justice but denied murdering Jimmy
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Prout reporter Jeremy Armstrong was in the courtroom it was a strange sight seeing them say
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by side in the dark he seemed somehow divorced from what was going on I don't
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know if one can just best describe that that way but there didn't seem to be any
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shame or any emotional reaction to the description of what had happened to Jimmy which I found quite disturbing
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really prosecutor Paul greeney had to cross-examine the manipulative ringleader I officer encountered zahid
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Zaman in a very different environment from the environment in which K raywith and others encountered him I encountered
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him in a courtroom not an environment in which he would have been comfortable but
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one in which I was comfortable and the person that I saw was undistinguished and entirely unimpressive
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former acquaintance of K rayworth Helen O'Keefe came face to face with a man who
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terrorized the neighborhood when she took the stand it was very very daunting but once I
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went in and he was there with either three we were sitting there it's all he was
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Untouchable as all well regardless of what anybody says nothing's going to happen to me when I first went in he was
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watching so he was trying to be a bit intimidating and I thought no you're not
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gonna you're not you're not going to intimidate us with the evidence laid out in front of
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them it was clear to everyone in the courtroom that sir man was the instigator in Chief of the cult-like
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group it wouldn't happen without Amanda I don't think there's any doubt about
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that whatsoever my own view is that zahid Zaman tortured and caused Jimmy to be tortured and
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ultimately killed Jimmy because he thought that he had been involved in some way in the theft of some
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inexpensive tools and such was the distorted personality of zahita man such was his desire for
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vengeance that he was prepared to do anything to show that people shouldn't treat him like that the jury didn't fall
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for the clique's lies and found Ann Corbett and zaheed Zaman guilty of the murder of Jimmy Prout as for K raywith
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and Myra wood the jury decided that they were guilty of causing or allowing the death of a vulnerable adult
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my take on it is that the jury thought that these were two women who were effectively living in the same household
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as Jimmy who knew that he was vulnerable who knew that he was being mistreated in
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the most appalling way on a daily basis sometime more than once a day who had an
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opportunity and an obligation to intervene but didn't do so they just allowed him to die
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[Music] K rayworth was jailed for 12 years and four months and Myra Ward received a
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nine-year sentence Zaman and Corbett were sentenced to life in prison 33 and 27 years respectively proving that saman
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was seen as the main Tormentor of Jimmy Prout the length of their sentences shows how
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shocked the jury were in this case and the judge because this isn't just a case
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of murder this is a case of humiliation torture of a vulnerable adult Jimmy Prout was tortured to death by a
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group of individuals who he believed to be his friends having witnessed Jimmy's deterioration
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burning the brutal truth about the reasons behind it was difficult for local residents like Helen to hear
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going back to that port of seeing them help and then hearing what had happened you feel that's all you wish I'd
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intervened but you couldn't because of the time there was nothing underwater
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where you could see do you need a hand I think probably this is one of the most extreme cases of violence towards a
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vulnerable individual one could ever come across and and one of the most shocking cases I've ever covered as a
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result of that there was absolutely no need whatsoever to use the extreme level of violence that was used against him
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an was an extremely dangerous individual he simply couldn't cope with the situation in which he didn't get his own
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way and if he didn't get his own way he responded in a way that was vengeful in
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the extreme there can be no doubt that the barbaric cruelty caused by a group of Misfits was
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spearheaded by the man could have put an end to the medieval like torture at any point
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but clearly receives some sort of sick enjoyment from watching an innocent man die slowly
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this wicked brutality unquestionably makes saheeds a man one of the world's most evil killers
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