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So I'm in my flat,

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and Sandy's on the way.

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He knows I've gone to the police.

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I'm the one who marked the grave site.

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All of a sudden,
Sandy's slamming the car door

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and storming up to the door.

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My God,

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I think he's got a spare key.

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I honestly thought he was gonna kill me.

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But I was finding this anger
just bubbling up inside me.

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What right did he have to threaten me?

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He was the one that did this.

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And so I hit the record button.

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If he dares lay a finger on me,
I can take that to the police.

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"Do you know what?
Fuck you, Sandy. Fuck you."

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Sandy, why did you get me involved
in all of this?

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Why?

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What good did you think
was gonna come of it? You have--

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I'll never forgive myself
for what I've done to you.

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-You will for what you did to Parsons?
-No!

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I was expecting Sandy to kick off.

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But actually,

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in that moment, he was a bit broken.

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-Sandy, you told me after a month.
-I know.

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Why?

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I fucking loved you and I trusted you.

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I mean it, Caroline, when I say,
fuck me, I never felt so comfortable.

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I never loved somebody
as much as when I met you.

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And I said, "But you've just heard
about this Red Bull can."

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He went, "See, at the end of the day,

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whatever happened, happened."

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"But you weren't involved."

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"I involved you."

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Deep down, like, it's not your fault.

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It's my fault.

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Him apologizing to me for everything…

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…it released a lot of the fear.

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Christ, you've done more for me
than anybody's ever done in my life.

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One side of my brain is saying,
"This is the loving man that I fell for."

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"The gentle Sandy."

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The other side of my brain is saying,
"Caroline, this guy's dangerous."

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My emotions were all over the place.

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Sandy and I decided
we would stay in touch,

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and he went back to the estate.

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Now, Sandy didn't hurt me that night,

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but it could've gone
a very, very different way.

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I went to the police.

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I'd done the right thing.

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But I thought,
"The police will support me through this."

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And they didn't.

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They just completely revealed me
as the betrayer.

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It made me see the police
in an entirely different light.

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What is your complaint?

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Do you understand how much
me going to help you guys

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has literally ruined my life?

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And you couldn't even promise me safety.

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Do you understand
why this is so sad and serious?

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The police abandoned me that day.

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As head of Homicide and Major Crime,

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I had investigated many, many murders.

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Every one of them is a jigsaw.

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You don't necessarily have all the pieces,

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but you have to put together enough

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to present
that compelling picture to a jury.

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At this stage in the investigation,

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the information that we had
from Dr. Muirhead led us to the body,

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but it wasn't sufficient to allow us
to take proceedings against the McKellars.

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We needed to find
more pieces of the jigsaw.

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The police were conducting
very, very extensive searches

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to see if they could recover

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Tony Parsons' bicycle,
his helmet, his rucksack.

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We needed to find out
what vehicle had been involved.

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It was essential that we recover

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every single possible shred
of forensic evidence,

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so that we don't allow them to get away
without any consequence of their actions.

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On top of that,

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Dr. Muirhead told the police
that Robert McKellar had confirmed to her

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that Tony Parsons was alive at the time
they removed him to the estate.

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If he was still alive,

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that takes you into the territory
of murder or culpable homicide.

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In order to corroborate
what has been said to her,

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we need to conduct
a full postmortem examination.

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In this case,
the receiving mortuary would be

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the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Mortuary
in Glasgow.

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Incredibly,

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the human remains of Tony Parsons

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was brought to the same mortuary
I was contracted to work at.

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For which I had specialist access
to files, to computer programs,

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ID badges, staff access.

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It really wasn't appropriate that
she should be in or around the mortuary

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during the time
Mr. Parsons' body was there.

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I was then put initially on special leave,

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in case I became a conflict of interest.

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I didn't anticipate
there would be any problem for her.

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I was devastated.

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I loved my job.

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In medicine,
work does kind of become all-consuming.

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It's just all you do, all you talk about.

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She'd have been training
for 11 years by that stage.

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Every day has been
about medical school or work as a doctor.

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To have that taken away from you,
it's devastating. That's all you have.

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Suddenly, you're at home.

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There's no one to speak to.

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And this was during lockdown.

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Left to her own thoughts.

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Oh, my life!

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It must have been
extremely distressing for her.

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It was difficult.

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I had no purpose, nothing to wake up for.

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Oh, my gosh.

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I would start recording everything,
even myself,

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trying to keep a grasp on my own reality.

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It was a terrible time.

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She became totally paranoid.

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-Mm-hm.
-Um…

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And anti-police.

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Anti seeing anyone, talking to anyone,

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doing anything.

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I felt like such a failure
to my parents by this point in my life.

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I knew I'd thrown
their world into turmoil.

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And I couldn't face that.

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My mum explicitly asked the detectives

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if I could have someone
professional to talk to.

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The officer said, "Your daughter's
not allowed to speak to anyone,

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or she could compromise the case."

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My support network of colleagues was gone.

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My family was torn apart by this.

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I had nothing in Glasgow.

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I was getting
occasional messages from Caroline.

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She was a mess.

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You know,
a whirlwind romance, an engagement…

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I don't know if you have an opportunity
to suddenly turn those feelings off.

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I was so broken and feeling as if

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no one would want to be with me.

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Sandy would send
little photos and little videos,

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saying, "Oh, my gosh, I miss you so much."

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I had handed him in and ruined his life.

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He should hate me.

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It made me feel loved,
made me feel wanted.

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And that… feeling of being treated well

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when you've not been,

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you cling onto it so strongly.

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I still had that toxic draw

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when he would message me.

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You make me smile more than anybody.

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You make me laugh
more than anybody's done in my life.

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I've never met somebody like you
before in my life.

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As mad as it may sound to people,

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you can't just turn your affection off
even if they've done a terrible thing.

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I drove to the Auch Estate,

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back to Sandy.

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It weirdly felt like I was going home.

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Being somewhere where maybe…

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…I'm actually loved.

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Even if it's the most
warped love in the world.

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We've all, at some point,

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done or kept to something
we know is bad for us.

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We're all human.

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Morning!

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Aye…

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Being on that estate, you could
hide yourself away from the world.

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Ah, to be alone in Scotland.

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Yeah.

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Sandy and I, thereafter, lived in a bubble
of our own little false reality.

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It's just the best.

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His brother, Robert, he accepted me back.

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I remember Robert once saying,

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"This is the most fucked-up,
dysfunctional situation,

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but we all love each other."

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Me, Robert, and Sandy were
the only three in the world who knew

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the intensity of what was going on.

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When you're on the estate
and the police turn up…

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Every time a police car would even come
past the road, everyone would freeze,

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thinking they were gonna get rearrested.

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I was made aware by the police
that she was back living with him.

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And it seemed to me
to be a very, very odd decision, indeed.

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He had told her he'd killed somebody.

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A funeral has taken place
of a charity cyclist

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whose body was found
three years after he went missing.

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The fact that
she was still associating with Sandy

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certainly created in my mind
a-- a nagging worry or concern

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that she may not be willing to participate
as a witness at a later stage.

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She told me that she was moving
back to the boys' estate.

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That sounded completely mental.

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I didn't know what she was doing.

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How do you think people will judge
that decision to go back to the farm?

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My brain couldn't fathom
and cope with the idea

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that the man that I'd fallen in love with
was a murderer.

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And I was able to…

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Poor coping strategies or whatever,
I was able to change my beliefs.

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I'd be like, "It's the parents' fault."

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"He had a bad childhood,"
"Didn't mean it," "Under the influence…"

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Or, "If I do this, I can improve,
I can change this, I can control this."

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That little bit of your brain
that holds onto this idea

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that, "Maybe I was wrong,
maybe they are a good person," which is…

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And… we had a bond,

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which, obviously, is not healthy at all,

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but it was a bond,
and there was an awful lot of love.

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Love is such a strong emotion.

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It pulls you away from the reality
because reality is too painful.

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In this moment,
I was desperate to see the good in Sandy.

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Deep down,
she didn't want the reality to be that…

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Hello, friend.

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…this person that she'd fallen for
had killed somebody.

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I think Caroline wanted, hoped,

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that Sandy had admitted it to her

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so that, actually,
he could redeem himself.

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-You found it very hard to…
-I did, yeah.

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I think she should just have cut the ties
and… and distanced herself.

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So, at this point, we're still awaiting
the pathologist's written opinion.

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The police did what they could
to search for Mr. Parsons' possessions.

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But no trace of his bicycle
or his equipment had been found.

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What they did discover was
the vehicle that was believed involved…

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was Robert's vehicle.

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It's an Isuzu pickup.

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When examined,

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it became evident that the vehicle
had been involved in a collision.

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The McKellar brothers had arranged
to have the vehicle repaired

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at a remote garage where it would
never normally go to be repaired

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at a time that was consistent
with the aftermath of the accident.

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And, astonishingly enough,

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when the police went there,

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the mechanic was able
to show them photographs

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of the vehicle
as it had come into the garage.

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And the damage is perfectly consistent
with a road traffic accident.

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As it transpired,
the McKellar brothers told the garage,

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that they'd had a collision with a deer.

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They didn't want to claim
on their insurance.

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It was a cash-in-hand job.

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All of which
is plainly an attempt to cover

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their involvement
in the accident involving Mr. Parsons.

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Now, because the vehicle
had been repaired,

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that meant that
there was not going to be a possibility

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of finding forensic evidence, say,
paintwork from the bike,

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fabric from Mr. Parsons' clothing.

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Those sorts of things were lost.

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But the repair itself
was highly significant,

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redolent of their guilt.

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All the little bits of the jigsaw
were beginning to fit together.

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But it wasn't direct evidence that tied
the McKellars into Tony Parsons' demise.

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It was clear to me that Caroline Muirhead
was the foundation of this case.

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If we were to try to secure justice,

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we would need her in court
to give evidence against the McKellars.

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The days were flowing
into weeks, into months,

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and this harmonious little bubble was
becoming more somber and quite menacing.

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I tried to go back to work,

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but I really wasn't
in a fit state to practice.

00:16:17.319 --> 00:16:20.079 align:center
We all knew
they were gonna get rearrested,

00:16:20.599 --> 00:16:23.199 align:center
but it just seemed to go on forever.

00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:28.599 align:center
Myself, Robert, and Sandy
indulged in drugs and alcohol.

00:16:28.680 --> 00:16:31.319 align:center
Three-day bender, no surrender for me.

00:16:31.400 --> 00:16:32.640 align:center
Two for you.

00:16:32.719 --> 00:16:34.240 align:center
It was a way of escaping.

00:16:34.319 --> 00:16:36.719 align:center
Fuck off.

00:16:36.800 --> 00:16:38.160 align:center
Oh, fuck.

00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:40.560 align:center
But we were arguing much more.

00:16:40.640 --> 00:16:42.800 align:center
In the middle of fucking nowhere,

00:16:42.880 --> 00:16:45.120 align:center
and Sandy's in a cunt of a mood.

00:16:45.800 --> 00:16:48.479 align:center
Here I was, isolated on a farm,

00:16:50.160 --> 00:16:52.719 align:center
just in this haze and limbo,

00:16:53.479 --> 00:16:55.000 align:center
wasting my life,

00:16:55.520 --> 00:16:56.520 align:center
waiting.

00:16:58.959 --> 00:17:01.359 align:center
One night, we're playing Scrabble,

00:17:01.439 --> 00:17:04.319 align:center
and… then being high on drugs,

00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:07.760 align:center
he started talking about the case.

00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:11.880 align:center
And I clicked record again.

00:17:14.560 --> 00:17:17.119 align:center
See, when I hit him,
we looked at each other and said,

00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:19.319 align:center
"What the fuck was that?"
And he's like, "I don't know."

00:17:19.399 --> 00:17:21.440 align:center
Anyway, I thought it was someone homeless.

00:17:21.520 --> 00:17:23.760 align:center
I was like,
"Who'd be cycling this time of night?"

00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:27.760 align:center
He then starts talking about the bike.
"It's under a waterfall somewhere."

00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:31.640 align:center
I took it down, like, to the loch
and tried to launch it.

00:17:33.320 --> 00:17:34.840 align:center
But the loch goes up and down.

00:17:34.919 --> 00:17:37.760 align:center
So I had to, like, swim in and get it.
Fucking hell.

00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:40.440 align:center
Is that up by Loch Lyon?

00:17:40.520 --> 00:17:41.840 align:center
Hm.

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Have the police found that bike?

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I have no idea. Fuck knows.

00:17:48.040 --> 00:17:51.120 align:center
Then Sandy started to talk
about the police investigation

00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:54.040 align:center
and conversations
he'd had with his own lawyer.

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He says they might have
one little thing, which is Caroline,

00:17:57.800 --> 00:17:59.440 align:center
but they've got nothing else.

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It's very circumstantial.

00:18:02.399 --> 00:18:06.000 align:center
There was an arrogance,
almost disdain in his voice,

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of, "We've got away with this."

00:18:08.600 --> 00:18:11.880 align:center
"How did that man get there?
Was it the boys?"

00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:13.200 align:center
"We don't know."

00:18:13.280 --> 00:18:15.440 align:center
There was no compassion, no remorse.

00:18:16.680 --> 00:18:18.560 align:center
Normal people don't do that.

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He was someone's husband.

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Someone's dad.

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It was a huge wake-up call.

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Who is this man? Who is this monster?

00:18:48.679 --> 00:18:51.080 align:center
Whoever I loved didn't exist.

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I was living a lie.

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And being high and drunk
made that possible.

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I'd lost my sense of self
and my sense of right and wrong.

00:19:10.919 --> 00:19:13.560 align:center
Anyways, that's good. Could be an option.

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After that, this false bubble of reality,
I knew, was gonna burst.

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I'm not allowing you
to completely ruin my life anymore,

00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:22.560 align:center
because that's what you keep doing.

00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.720 align:center
I finally just had to accept
that he was never gonna change.

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And so I had to leave.

00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:31.080 align:center
-This really how we're ending it?
-Yes, it was already ended.

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You're going to jail.

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You have literally ruined my life.
Look what you've got me involved in.

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Get out!

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And I actually moved back to Glasgow.

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To my parents' house.

00:19:48.919 --> 00:19:49.960 align:center
Hello.

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Because…

00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:51.800 align:center
Hey, darling.

00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:53.120 align:center
…I'd given up my flat.

00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:56.040 align:center
Oh, Blue, hello.

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When she came back, it was such a relief.

00:20:02.800 --> 00:20:05.440 align:center
But very often
she was up all through the night,

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and she was in her room all day.

00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:13.919 align:center
Being back at my parents' house
forced me to acknowledge

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my behaviors and my decisions.

00:20:18.040 --> 00:20:20.760 align:center
I felt like I'd let a lot of people down.

00:20:25.840 --> 00:20:27.800 align:center
She was not in a good place at all,
was she?

00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:28.800 align:center
No.

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Oh fuck. Cunt and shitty fuck.

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I just wanted
the investigation to be over.

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Sandy had no idea
about the recordings I'd taken.

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I thought to myself,

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"Maybe the investigation is taking so long
because they haven't got the bike."

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Maybe the bike is vital,
crucial evidence to the prosecution.

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And so I called up the detectives,
and I said, "I have another recording."

00:21:02.840 --> 00:21:05.480 align:center
And two detectives came
to my parents' house.

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I played them the secret recording
where Sandy was talking about the bike.

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I took it down to the loch
and tried to launch it,

00:21:14.280 --> 00:21:15.919 align:center
but the loch goes up and down.

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The police acted on that information
and searched every waterfall.

00:21:19.840 --> 00:21:22.280 align:center
There are countless waterfalls
on the estate.

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The police were keen to find the bike

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because there may have been paint
from the vehicle that was involved on it.

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But…

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they found nothing.

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-Was the windscreen not fucked?
-It was all right.

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Having to sit
and listen to this recording,

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I can hear myself snorting the cocaine.

00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:47.560 align:center
It's vile.

00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:51.040 align:center
And I said, "Look, I need help."

00:21:51.919 --> 00:21:54.080 align:center
The detective said,
"Have you not been referred

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to the Victim Support Service yet?"

00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:57.000 align:center
And I went, "No."

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He said, "You should have been
with them from the word go."

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In Scots law,

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witnesses who are in relationships
with an accused person

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are to be treated as vulnerable witnesses.

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The police and the Crown
had a duty to provide…

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Fuck it.

00:22:23.399 --> 00:22:26.399 align:center
…emotional and mental support

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to Dr. Muirhead right from the very start.

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Let's go home.

00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:34.439 align:center
As I understand it,

00:22:34.520 --> 00:22:37.320 align:center
the relationship was not
a lengthy relationship.

00:22:37.399 --> 00:22:39.600 align:center
It was a matter of weeks or months.

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I have no doubt that that played a part

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in the risk assessment
the police made at the time.

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The length of a relationship
bears no relation

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to the fact that she was
a highly vulnerable person.

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We could have referred her to help,

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but you have to bear in mind
that we're talking here

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about someone who is highly intelligent.

00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:06.320 align:center
She's a fully qualified doctor,

00:23:06.399 --> 00:23:09.679 align:center
someone who knows
exactly what's available to her.

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Dr. Muirhead did not fit
the police's stereotype

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of a vulnerable witness.

00:23:18.360 --> 00:23:24.200 align:center
And that's where
the system started to let her down.

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I just think she was treated appallingly.

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Finally, the results
of the postmortem came back.

00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:45.640 align:center
The forensic pathologist found

00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:50.439 align:center
that Mr. Parsons had sustained
multiple blunt force trauma injuries,

00:23:52.080 --> 00:23:55.360 align:center
consistent with being struck
by a motor vehicle.

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But they were injuries
that did not indicate

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he would've died immediately.

00:24:01.679 --> 00:24:04.679 align:center
The pathologist's opinion was very clear.

00:24:04.760 --> 00:24:09.399 align:center
Mr. Parsons was still alive
after the collision.

00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:16.320 align:center
Immediately, we need to have an expert
in accident and emergency medicine

00:24:17.040 --> 00:24:22.000 align:center
to provide an opinion as to how long
Mr. Parsons might have lived.

00:24:22.600 --> 00:24:26.240 align:center
The expert's opinion
was between 20 to 30 minutes.

00:24:27.399 --> 00:24:30.600 align:center
It's utterly central
to the jigsaw of evidence.

00:24:32.040 --> 00:24:34.280 align:center
In Scots law, you can commit murder,

00:24:34.360 --> 00:24:38.280 align:center
either intentionally
or by what's known as wicked recklessness,

00:24:38.360 --> 00:24:41.600 align:center
the carrying out of an act
where you don't care

00:24:42.120 --> 00:24:44.120 align:center
whether the person lives or dies.

00:24:47.679 --> 00:24:49.360 align:center
They don't call for assistance.

00:24:49.439 --> 00:24:52.280 align:center
They don't call the police,
don't call the ambulance service.

00:24:52.360 --> 00:24:55.200 align:center
They don't take any steps whatsoever…

00:24:55.280 --> 00:24:59.439 align:center
…to give Mr. Parsons a chance at life.

00:25:00.040 --> 00:25:05.360 align:center
It's callous beyond… beyond anything
that I can imagine, really.

00:25:07.399 --> 00:25:10.640 align:center
Finally, all the pieces of the jigsaw
were in place.

00:25:11.280 --> 00:25:14.080 align:center
I instructed the police
to arrest the McKellars.

00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:18.000 align:center
This was the most serious crime
it could be,

00:25:18.520 --> 00:25:19.360 align:center
murder.

00:25:27.280 --> 00:25:29.080 align:center
Can you confirm your name?

00:25:29.159 --> 00:25:30.560 align:center
Alexander Gardner McKellar.

00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:32.640 align:center
Can I ask you your name, please?

00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:33.880 align:center
Robert McKellar.

00:25:34.560 --> 00:25:40.040 align:center
During the interviews, the police tactic
was to try to humanize Mr. Parsons,

00:25:40.120 --> 00:25:42.840 align:center
try to unsettle the McKellar brothers.

00:25:42.919 --> 00:25:44.199 align:center
You know who that is?

00:25:44.280 --> 00:25:47.399 align:center
Look at that picture
and think what you did to him.

00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:49.240 align:center
His family.

00:25:52.320 --> 00:25:53.600 align:center
I can see the photo.

00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:55.760 align:center
Can you see the man?

00:25:59.600 --> 00:26:01.720 align:center
Your actions
could have kept that man alive,

00:26:01.800 --> 00:26:04.080 align:center
and you chose not to.

00:26:05.040 --> 00:26:09.560 align:center
Police play a recording Caroline Muirhead
had made of Sandy to him.

00:26:09.640 --> 00:26:12.439 align:center
We seized a laptop,
which was later examined.

00:26:12.520 --> 00:26:14.520 align:center
On this laptop were several recordings…

00:26:14.600 --> 00:26:16.120 align:center
It was quite clear,

00:26:16.199 --> 00:26:18.320 align:center
from the way Sandy reacted,

00:26:18.399 --> 00:26:20.480 align:center
that he knew nothing of the recording.

00:26:20.560 --> 00:26:23.040 align:center
And you can see that
in the way he cracks his knuckles.

00:26:23.120 --> 00:26:24.679 align:center
…one of the audio clips in here.

00:26:27.120 --> 00:26:29.320 align:center
Because it was either my life or his.

00:26:30.600 --> 00:26:33.240 align:center
Fucking stupid cunt
shouldn't have fucking been there.

00:26:34.080 --> 00:26:35.840 align:center
He was plainly shocked by it.

00:26:36.760 --> 00:26:40.800 align:center
It doesn't sound like me, to be honest.
It sounds like it's been messed with.

00:26:41.320 --> 00:26:42.439 align:center
In my opinion,

00:26:42.520 --> 00:26:46.560 align:center
Sandy's body language,
his reaction to the tape recording,

00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:49.320 align:center
was going to be dynamite
in front of a jury.

00:26:49.399 --> 00:26:52.040 align:center
Have you no regrets
about what you've done?

00:26:52.120 --> 00:26:53.080 align:center
No comment.

00:26:57.080 --> 00:26:58.720 align:center
Twin brothers have been charged

00:26:58.800 --> 00:27:03.159 align:center
in connection with the death of a cyclist
reported missing four years ago.

00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:05.480 align:center
Alexander McKellar and Robert McKellar

00:27:05.560 --> 00:27:07.120 align:center
were charged with murder.

00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:09.720 align:center
Both were remanded in custody.

00:27:10.840 --> 00:27:13.080 align:center
My phone went,
and it was one of the detectives.

00:27:13.159 --> 00:27:17.080 align:center
And he called me and said,
"Caroline, we just wish to inform you

00:27:17.159 --> 00:27:19.240 align:center
that the boys
have now officially and formally

00:27:19.320 --> 00:27:21.360 align:center
been charged
with the murder of Tony Parsons."

00:27:23.679 --> 00:27:26.880 align:center
And he said, "Look, Caroline,
they'll be held in jail now."

00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:29.240 align:center
"A trial date will be set."

00:27:31.360 --> 00:27:33.520 align:center
"You'll be called as a witness."

00:27:34.600 --> 00:27:36.480 align:center
There was a… a relief,

00:27:36.560 --> 00:27:40.600 align:center
but there was also, then,
that huge, impending anxiety

00:27:40.679 --> 00:27:43.199 align:center
and apprehension of the murder trial.

00:27:43.800 --> 00:27:47.199 align:center
I recognized
I was gonna get torn to shreds.

00:27:50.040 --> 00:27:53.240 align:center
The most common question one gets is,

00:27:53.320 --> 00:27:57.840 align:center
"How can you defend
people who are accused of murder?"

00:27:57.919 --> 00:27:59.159 align:center
My answer to that is,

00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:02.880 align:center
"It's not my job to decide
whether the person is innocent or guilty."

00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:06.720 align:center
"My task is simply to represent someone
to the best of my ability."

00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:10.480 align:center
When I first met Mr. McKellar,

00:28:10.560 --> 00:28:14.199 align:center
he no longer disputed
that he and his brother

00:28:14.280 --> 00:28:16.679 align:center
killed and buried Mr. Parsons.

00:28:16.760 --> 00:28:18.560 align:center
On his instructions,

00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:21.640 align:center
I approached the Crown
offering a plea of guilty

00:28:21.720 --> 00:28:23.960 align:center
to causing death by dangerous driving.

00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:29.240 align:center
But I was informed
that such a plea would not be accepted.

00:28:29.760 --> 00:28:32.840 align:center
The Crown intended to proceed
with a charge of murder.

00:28:34.080 --> 00:28:37.480 align:center
The Crown's principal sources of evidence

00:28:37.560 --> 00:28:41.240 align:center
were the statement from Caroline Muirhead

00:28:41.320 --> 00:28:43.439 align:center
that there had been a confession

00:28:43.520 --> 00:28:46.760 align:center
that Mr. Parsons had been alive
at the time of the collision,

00:28:46.840 --> 00:28:51.199 align:center
a matter which I think it's only fair
to say Mr. McKellar totally disputed.

00:28:52.040 --> 00:28:54.840 align:center
The other evidence was a report

00:28:55.439 --> 00:29:00.199 align:center
saying that it was theoretically possible
Mr. Parsons had survived the impact.

00:29:00.280 --> 00:29:04.879 align:center
But the Crown's expert
was really expressing an opinion.

00:29:04.959 --> 00:29:10.280 align:center
It was not sufficient, in my view,
to take the Crown to a charge of murder.

00:29:11.560 --> 00:29:15.919 align:center
Their entire case, in my opinion,
was built around one witness.

00:29:17.679 --> 00:29:20.360 align:center
And in my opinion,

00:29:20.439 --> 00:29:24.840 align:center
Miss Muirhead was unreliable as a witness.

00:29:27.800 --> 00:29:30.720 align:center
Following the arrest,
I'm still in this limbo.

00:29:30.800 --> 00:29:33.240 align:center
Until it's resolved in the courts,

00:29:33.320 --> 00:29:38.600 align:center
you still haven't shaken off
that shadow of what's happened.

00:29:39.280 --> 00:29:41.280 align:center
It's a very long waiting room.

00:29:49.600 --> 00:29:53.320 align:center
All great stories do not start with,
"I bought a box of home hair dye,"

00:29:53.399 --> 00:29:55.280 align:center
but I went, "Do you know what? Fuck it."

00:29:56.840 --> 00:29:57.679 align:center
Wow.

00:29:58.840 --> 00:29:59.679 align:center
Wow.

00:30:01.120 --> 00:30:04.639 align:center
I didn't want to even think
about my old life or my old reality.

00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:06.120 align:center
It is bad, isn't it?

00:30:06.760 --> 00:30:09.439 align:center
The trial date was set for July.

00:30:09.520 --> 00:30:11.800 align:center
I was told I would be cross-examined

00:30:11.879 --> 00:30:13.480 align:center
by both Robert's barrister

00:30:14.080 --> 00:30:16.240 align:center
and then Sandy's, back-to-back.

00:30:16.959 --> 00:30:20.399 align:center
I'm worried that they will destroy
my character to such an extent

00:30:21.040 --> 00:30:24.159 align:center
that I might never be able
to practice medicine again.

00:30:24.679 --> 00:30:25.760 align:center
And, you know,

00:30:26.560 --> 00:30:28.240 align:center
the human brain can do

00:30:29.120 --> 00:30:31.560 align:center
some really wild things
when it's under pressure.

00:30:32.600 --> 00:30:34.159 align:center
Doing a 1:00 a.m. hike.

00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:36.879 align:center
I started hanging with a crowd in Glasgow
I shouldn't have been with.

00:30:36.959 --> 00:30:38.760 align:center
Talk to me, baby

00:30:39.320 --> 00:30:41.439 align:center
And I turned to drugs and alcohol.

00:30:42.959 --> 00:30:44.280 align:center
Namely, cocaine.

00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:47.159 align:center
I was on a path of destruction.

00:30:48.360 --> 00:30:50.280 align:center
Caroline, when I first met her,

00:30:50.360 --> 00:30:53.399 align:center
was the last person on earth
who would have ever taken drugs.

00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:56.639 align:center
But after she met Sandy,

00:30:56.720 --> 00:30:59.080 align:center
she'd been taking drugs pretty regularly.

00:30:59.159 --> 00:31:03.159 align:center
That had coincided with her life
completely spiraling out of control.

00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:06.600 align:center
This is why I don't do ketamine.

00:31:07.080 --> 00:31:10.399 align:center
There's been times she didn't come home,

00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:13.480 align:center
times when we… we thought we'd lost her.

00:31:16.280 --> 00:31:18.159 align:center
According to a number of witnesses,

00:31:18.760 --> 00:31:21.360 align:center
Miss Muirhead was
significantly under the influence

00:31:21.439 --> 00:31:23.399 align:center
of both drugs and alcohol.

00:31:23.919 --> 00:31:28.480 align:center
That would, in my opinion,
impact upon a jury's view

00:31:28.560 --> 00:31:32.919 align:center
as to whether what she was telling
the police was, in fact, accurate or not.

00:31:34.320 --> 00:31:39.959 align:center
That, together with Miss Muirhead's
decision to continue the relationship,

00:31:40.040 --> 00:31:41.679 align:center
would be the starting point

00:31:41.760 --> 00:31:45.760 align:center
of discrediting Miss Muirhead
as a witness.

00:31:46.800 --> 00:31:51.760 align:center
If the jury could not be satisfied
about her evidence,

00:31:51.840 --> 00:31:55.280 align:center
then that would mean
they could not convict of murder.

00:31:56.719 --> 00:31:59.199 align:center
At this point, I am saying repeatedly,

00:31:59.280 --> 00:32:01.760 align:center
especially to the Victim Support Services,

00:32:01.840 --> 00:32:04.040 align:center
I am not in a fit place to do this.

00:32:05.320 --> 00:32:07.000 align:center
I was concerned about her.

00:32:07.080 --> 00:32:08.840 align:center
I was concerned for her.

00:32:08.919 --> 00:32:11.199 align:center
But she had placed herself in a situation

00:32:11.280 --> 00:32:14.840 align:center
where the Crown had no option
other than to compel her to come to court.

00:32:15.879 --> 00:32:19.199 align:center
And I wrote a letter to her
explaining that.

00:32:20.040 --> 00:32:23.159 align:center
This letter, it said, if I didn't testify,

00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:25.600 align:center
I'd be held in contempt of court.

00:32:25.679 --> 00:32:29.600 align:center
It was, "You do this,
or you'll end up in jail yourself."

00:32:29.679 --> 00:32:32.040 align:center
I was just trying to help her.

00:32:32.560 --> 00:32:35.240 align:center
Because I'm looking
at this situation, thinking,

00:32:35.320 --> 00:32:37.280 align:center
"You're about to throw your life away."

00:32:37.360 --> 00:32:39.399 align:center
"You're a young, intelligent woman

00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:41.639 align:center
with a fantastic career in front of you,

00:32:41.719 --> 00:32:45.120 align:center
and you're about to literally pull the pin
on the grenade and go, 'Boom.'"

00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:50.719 align:center
There are ways to convey

00:32:50.800 --> 00:32:57.679 align:center
the consequences of not turning up
without it being blunt.

00:32:59.080 --> 00:33:00.560 align:center
As a Crown witness,

00:33:00.639 --> 00:33:05.000 align:center
Dr. Muirhead should have been
offered the special measure

00:33:05.080 --> 00:33:08.679 align:center
of having her evidence
taken by a commissioner.

00:33:09.560 --> 00:33:12.439 align:center
It's a procedure for vulnerable witnesses

00:33:12.520 --> 00:33:16.879 align:center
where the evidence is recorded
long before the trial process.

00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:20.439 align:center
In my view, she didn't fit the criteria.

00:33:20.520 --> 00:33:23.000 align:center
I'm a prosecutor.
My job is to prosecute people.

00:33:23.600 --> 00:33:28.120 align:center
Her giving evidence in person
would be much more impactful to a jury.

00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:31.959 align:center
I wasn't the strong person
who'd gone to give them evidence.

00:33:32.040 --> 00:33:34.439 align:center
I was this pathetic waste of space.

00:33:36.199 --> 00:33:40.600 align:center
What if I actually am so discredited
they lose their case?

00:33:46.560 --> 00:33:49.399 align:center
Twin brothers are due
in Glasgow High Court today,

00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:52.919 align:center
accused of killing a cyclist
and covering up their crime.

00:33:53.719 --> 00:33:57.320 align:center
Alexander and Robert McKellar
face life imprisonment

00:33:57.399 --> 00:34:01.080 align:center
if found guilty
of murdering Anthony Parsons.

00:34:02.560 --> 00:34:04.840 align:center
You have in the dock

00:34:04.919 --> 00:34:07.560 align:center
a man accused of killing somebody

00:34:07.639 --> 00:34:11.239 align:center
and the person
who's gonna testify against him,

00:34:11.759 --> 00:34:13.639 align:center
the woman he was going to marry.

00:34:14.719 --> 00:34:18.839 align:center
Whether you, uh, view court
as a spectacle or not,

00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:21.360 align:center
you know, that is high drama.

00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:26.639 align:center
If the Parsons family
were to see justice done,

00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:30.440 align:center
Caroline's testimony
was going to be absolutely crucial.

00:34:31.560 --> 00:34:35.760 align:center
I thought that being
a woman of significant intelligence,

00:34:35.839 --> 00:34:38.799 align:center
she would be
a difficult witness to cross-examine.

00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:42.880 align:center
I anticipated that
she would be quite volatile.

00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:47.159 align:center
Nothing suggested she was going to be
an easy witness to deal with.

00:34:49.799 --> 00:34:51.880 align:center
I woke up early hours.

00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:54.360 align:center
My mum's laid out an outfit.

00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:58.839 align:center
I'm looking at it and I'm thinking,
"That doesn't even fit me anymore."

00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:05.839 align:center
It's an extraordinary feeling,
really, being in the court of justice.

00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:08.799 align:center
As people begin to gather,

00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:10.360 align:center
from the lawyers

00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:12.720 align:center
to this poor man's family,

00:35:13.720 --> 00:35:16.319 align:center
there's a rising sense of expectation.

00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:22.440 align:center
And then the accused
are brought up into the dock.

00:35:23.319 --> 00:35:26.200 align:center
These country lads
are wearing their best suits.

00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:29.520 align:center
They've had nice new haircuts.

00:35:30.080 --> 00:35:33.440 align:center
It's a moment of real tension.

00:35:37.080 --> 00:35:38.440 align:center
I was so ashamed…

00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:42.480 align:center
…of who I was and what I'd become.

00:35:42.560 --> 00:35:43.640 align:center
Court.

00:35:44.520 --> 00:35:46.400 align:center
And you're waiting for Caroline…

00:35:49.319 --> 00:35:50.799 align:center
to take the stand.

00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:52.600 align:center
Call the diet. His Majesty's Advocate

00:35:52.680 --> 00:35:55.920 align:center
against Alexander McKellar
and Robert McKellar.

00:35:57.839 --> 00:36:01.360 align:center
And I just thought
I was going to let everyone down.

00:36:02.799 --> 00:36:04.080 align:center
And I just panicked.

00:36:10.720 --> 00:36:13.400 align:center
I wanted to get
as far away from there as possible.

00:36:19.799 --> 00:36:24.000 align:center
There was a sense that something
had gone wrong for the Crown.

00:36:24.080 --> 00:36:26.360 align:center
-Advocate Depute.
-Thank you, My Lord.

00:36:26.440 --> 00:36:27.440 align:center
I regret that I move

00:36:27.520 --> 00:36:30.120 align:center
that the case be adjourned
until tomorrow morning.

00:36:30.640 --> 00:36:31.960 align:center
Very well.

00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:37.319 align:center
The no-show on the first day
of the star witness…

00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:42.040 align:center
it… it's just extraordinary.

00:36:50.240 --> 00:36:52.600 align:center
The phone went. It was the police.

00:36:52.680 --> 00:36:56.080 align:center
"She hasn't turned up. Where is she?"
And I'm saying, "She's not here."

00:36:56.799 --> 00:36:58.720 align:center
And now I don't know where she is.

00:36:59.839 --> 00:37:01.960 align:center
You're having to stop
your mind catastrophizing

00:37:02.040 --> 00:37:05.560 align:center
about what might have happened
or where she might have gone.

00:37:09.480 --> 00:37:13.480 align:center
I just had this crazy notion
that if I found that bike,

00:37:13.560 --> 00:37:15.040 align:center
maybe it'd all be okay.

00:37:15.120 --> 00:37:18.440 align:center
I know where the bike is.
That's something else. It's not just me.

00:37:18.520 --> 00:37:22.920 align:center
You know?
It's not just the word of a crazy person.

00:37:23.680 --> 00:37:27.359 align:center
There might be proof they haven't found
that they did do this.

00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:32.920 align:center
And so there wasn't much sense in it.
Of course there wasn't.

00:37:34.120 --> 00:37:36.799 align:center
So, basically, no signal.

00:37:37.600 --> 00:37:39.160 align:center
So no one knows I'm here.

00:37:39.839 --> 00:37:41.560 align:center
To get to that waterfall…

00:37:42.080 --> 00:37:42.920 align:center
Slight issue.

00:37:43.839 --> 00:37:45.160 align:center
…that's a long walk.

00:37:45.240 --> 00:37:47.200 align:center
If I go all the way round
with the flooding,

00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:49.040 align:center
that'll take another 40 minutes.

00:37:49.799 --> 00:37:50.720 align:center
But…

00:37:50.799 --> 00:37:51.680 align:center
Let's go.

00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:54.040 align:center
…I had half a bottle of wine
once I got out of the car.

00:37:54.120 --> 00:37:56.280 align:center
The adrenaline was
coursing through me so much.

00:37:56.359 --> 00:37:58.240 align:center
Fuck.

00:37:58.319 --> 00:37:59.880 align:center
Shit, man!

00:38:00.799 --> 00:38:03.120 align:center
I'm getting to that waterfall,
getting that bike.

00:38:03.200 --> 00:38:04.640 align:center
No one's gonna stop me.

00:38:04.720 --> 00:38:07.680 align:center
I'm gonna show the police.
I'm gonna do their job for them.

00:38:08.280 --> 00:38:10.280 align:center
Three miles in to an 18-mile hike.

00:38:10.799 --> 00:38:12.319 align:center
I haven't got much time.

00:38:13.080 --> 00:38:15.560 align:center
I was taking snaps of myself.

00:38:15.640 --> 00:38:17.160 align:center
Didn't send them to anyone.

00:38:18.160 --> 00:38:22.319 align:center
And I think there was this, "Look at me
and look at what I'm about to do…"

00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:26.319 align:center
And, "I'm this victim.
Like, look what people have done to me."

00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:27.359 align:center
What now?

00:38:28.359 --> 00:38:30.760 align:center
When you start something,
you've gotta finish it.

00:38:30.839 --> 00:38:32.240 align:center
You're…

00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:34.319 align:center
I'm not sane.

00:38:36.839 --> 00:38:40.560 align:center
You know, this was my home.
I lived here, I love it.

00:38:40.640 --> 00:38:42.359 align:center
I lost everything.

00:38:44.040 --> 00:38:45.680 align:center
I miss it so much.

00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:54.200 align:center
It would be fair to say
on that first morning when this happened,

00:38:54.280 --> 00:38:59.880 align:center
the defense team was a bit more upbeat
than the, uh, prosecution team.

00:39:00.640 --> 00:39:03.720 align:center
If your key witness
is not prepared to take the stand,

00:39:03.799 --> 00:39:04.920 align:center
that's a problem.

00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:09.520 align:center
Dr. Muirhead did not appear
in answer to her citation.

00:39:10.680 --> 00:39:12.600 align:center
A warrant was sought for her arrest.

00:39:14.520 --> 00:39:17.120 align:center
She had been sighted on the estate.

00:39:19.160 --> 00:39:20.480 align:center
Hello!

00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:23.200 align:center
I've only done seven miles.

00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:26.080 align:center
I was supposed to testify,
what, three hours ago?

00:39:27.040 --> 00:39:28.160 align:center
The hours are going by.

00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:29.920 align:center
They'll be looking for me.

00:39:31.600 --> 00:39:33.600 align:center
All the cars
are going to come along there.

00:39:34.200 --> 00:39:37.480 align:center
I've still got another, what,
seven miles to get to the dam?

00:39:37.560 --> 00:39:40.000 align:center
Then I heard
the low hum of the helicopter.

00:39:40.080 --> 00:39:41.160 align:center
I mean, it's echoing.

00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:43.799 align:center
They're coming, boys!

00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:45.359 align:center
Run into the barn.

00:39:46.799 --> 00:39:48.280 align:center
Seeing that helicopter

00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:52.640 align:center
took even, like, whatever little bit
of rational thought there was there,

00:39:52.720 --> 00:39:54.200 align:center
and then it was gone.

00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:57.080 align:center
I'm so fucking lucky
I got here before they did.

00:39:57.600 --> 00:39:59.799 align:center
I'm under a table, I'm in a shed.

00:39:59.880 --> 00:40:01.080 align:center
There's nobody here.

00:40:01.600 --> 00:40:03.720 align:center
There's no trace of me, right?

00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:09.359 align:center
For me to get to this waterfall,
I am running out of time.

00:40:11.560 --> 00:40:13.960 align:center
I needed a faster form of transport.

00:40:15.600 --> 00:40:18.000 align:center
Oh my God. See if the keys are in this.

00:40:18.080 --> 00:40:19.160 align:center
Oh my God.

00:40:20.120 --> 00:40:23.000 align:center
Fucking idiots left the keys!

00:40:23.720 --> 00:40:25.920 align:center
Now, I have no idea
how to drive a tractor.

00:40:27.720 --> 00:40:28.920 align:center
Shit!

00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:30.720 align:center
Turn around, and there's the manual,

00:40:30.799 --> 00:40:33.240 align:center
still in its plastic casing,
in the back seat.

00:40:33.319 --> 00:40:34.640 align:center
And I went, "Right."

00:40:34.720 --> 00:40:36.600 align:center
With the manual on my lap,

00:40:36.680 --> 00:40:40.560 align:center
putting the key in, being like,
"Turn this, do that," then… Vroom!

00:40:41.839 --> 00:40:44.280 align:center
I have stolen

00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:46.560 align:center
a tractor.

00:40:49.040 --> 00:40:53.080 align:center
Oh… my… fucking…

00:40:55.319 --> 00:40:56.640 align:center
God!

00:40:56.720 --> 00:40:58.520 align:center
Whoo!

00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:03.160 align:center
I drove the tractor
to where the waterfall nearly is.

00:41:03.240 --> 00:41:04.880 align:center
Blocked the road.

00:41:05.839 --> 00:41:07.839 align:center
Now the police can't get past me.

00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:10.319 align:center
Fuck.

00:41:11.960 --> 00:41:12.839 align:center
Like…

00:41:14.040 --> 00:41:17.160 align:center
I mean, this is crazy!

00:41:19.160 --> 00:41:21.960 align:center
We see right there,
there's a wee cave bit behind.

00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:25.280 align:center
And the pressure of the water,
when you throw the bike down,

00:41:25.359 --> 00:41:27.000 align:center
it churns it up into the back.

00:41:27.080 --> 00:41:30.319 align:center
And… if that bike is still there,

00:41:31.359 --> 00:41:33.160 align:center
I'm going to try and find it.

00:41:33.680 --> 00:41:35.319 align:center
I'm wading through the water.

00:41:35.400 --> 00:41:38.799 align:center
I mean, the water is freezing cold.

00:41:41.799 --> 00:41:44.520 align:center
And the shock of the cold water

00:41:45.359 --> 00:41:48.120 align:center
actually made me very emotional.

00:42:14.080 --> 00:42:18.040 align:center
In that moment,
my brain was working so fast.

00:42:18.120 --> 00:42:21.880 align:center
Not logically, but so incredibly fast.

00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:24.359 align:center
I thought,
"Do you know what? Fuck it all."

00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:27.799 align:center
"Non, je ne regrette rien."

00:42:41.920 --> 00:42:43.000 align:center
Mania.

00:42:43.680 --> 00:42:44.880 align:center
Psychosis.

00:42:48.120 --> 00:42:49.839 align:center
And that's what I'd become.

00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:54.799 align:center
You're an hysterical, broken person.

00:42:59.160 --> 00:43:02.120 align:center
Don't let anyone else

00:43:02.200 --> 00:43:04.799 align:center
get abandoned and broken like me.

00:43:06.240 --> 00:43:10.000 align:center
I have just fucked my whole life up.

00:43:10.640 --> 00:43:12.240 align:center
For what?

00:43:12.319 --> 00:43:15.319 align:center
For a man who actually killed somebody.

00:43:15.839 --> 00:43:19.520 align:center
And that grief,
and that loss, and that stress

00:43:19.600 --> 00:43:21.920 align:center
culminated into that

00:43:23.319 --> 00:43:25.480 align:center
psychotic finale.

00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:31.520 align:center
I need to know if the bike is here.

00:43:32.040 --> 00:43:35.080 align:center
If there is something more than me.

00:43:35.160 --> 00:43:40.160 align:center
I did not start a murder trial
for something I didn't fucking see.

00:43:53.560 --> 00:43:54.960 align:center
I am found at the waterfall,

00:43:55.040 --> 00:43:56.920 align:center
and I am then arrested

00:43:57.760 --> 00:43:59.440 align:center
for contempt of court.

00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:02.120 align:center
I never found the bike.

00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:08.760 align:center
I then get taken to the High Court.

00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:32.120 align:center
I'm sitting there, waiting to testify.

00:44:34.040 --> 00:44:35.080 align:center
And I'm thinking,

00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:40.920 align:center
"My mum and dad
will be so angry and upset with me."

00:44:42.640 --> 00:44:45.240 align:center
The police called…

00:44:45.319 --> 00:44:46.160 align:center
Oh, yes.

00:44:46.240 --> 00:44:48.600 align:center
…and said they found her.

00:44:50.640 --> 00:44:52.319 align:center
She faces prison.

00:44:54.839 --> 00:44:55.920 align:center
I was just

00:44:57.080 --> 00:44:59.160 align:center
stunned by the whole situation.

00:44:59.240 --> 00:45:00.839 align:center
I couldn't cope with it.

00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:06.080 align:center
So much of her young life has been wasted

00:45:06.160 --> 00:45:09.600 align:center
by this sequence of events.

00:45:09.680 --> 00:45:11.040 align:center
That pains me.

00:45:11.120 --> 00:45:12.520 align:center
Because, you know…

00:45:14.080 --> 00:45:16.799 align:center
young life is to be lived.

00:45:17.839 --> 00:45:20.240 align:center
And that…

00:45:20.319 --> 00:45:21.760 align:center
…hurts me.

00:45:32.879 --> 00:45:36.160 align:center
The next day the court reconvenes.

00:45:36.240 --> 00:45:39.680 align:center
I've heard various rumors
why Caroline hadn't shown.

00:45:40.240 --> 00:45:42.319 align:center
Someone told me
she'd been in the cells overnight.

00:45:45.680 --> 00:45:46.960 align:center
Court!

00:45:47.640 --> 00:45:49.200 align:center
Sat in the court.

00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:52.120 align:center
We thought we were getting
a live court case.

00:45:52.200 --> 00:45:54.839 align:center
And it… it… it worked
in a completely different way.

00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:56.160 align:center
It was very unusual.

00:45:56.240 --> 00:46:00.120 align:center
I can advise that there has been
a development in the case.

00:46:01.080 --> 00:46:03.879 align:center
I was waiting
for the guard to take me to testify.

00:46:13.839 --> 00:46:15.280 align:center
And in front of the court,

00:46:15.359 --> 00:46:19.560 align:center
the prosecutor requests
that the indictment is amended.

00:46:20.080 --> 00:46:23.520 align:center
My Lord, in relation to charge number one,

00:46:23.600 --> 00:46:27.640 align:center
in line 11, to delete the word "murder"

00:46:27.720 --> 00:46:30.000 align:center
and substitute the word "kill."

00:46:32.200 --> 00:46:34.560 align:center
It's very significant indeed.

00:46:34.640 --> 00:46:38.040 align:center
The murder charge
has become unsustainable.

00:46:38.680 --> 00:46:43.960 align:center
I have instructions to tender
a plea of guilty to charge one.

00:46:44.040 --> 00:46:46.879 align:center
I received a telephone call
from the prosecution.

00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:50.480 align:center
If Mr. McKellar was prepared
to plead guilty to culpable homicide,

00:46:50.560 --> 00:46:52.640 align:center
the Crown would accept.

00:46:53.240 --> 00:46:57.160 align:center
Culpable homicide
is a crime less than murder.

00:46:57.240 --> 00:47:00.640 align:center
Those pleas are acceptable to the Crown.

00:47:00.720 --> 00:47:05.359 align:center
Because a plea was agreed,
then there is no trial.

00:47:08.080 --> 00:47:11.879 align:center
The twins Alexander and Robert McKellar
had been due to stand trial

00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:14.080 align:center
for the murder of Anthony Parsons.

00:47:14.160 --> 00:47:15.839 align:center
But today, here at the High Court,

00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:19.240 align:center
at the start of what was
expected to be a lengthy trial,

00:47:19.319 --> 00:47:24.280 align:center
Alexander instead pled guilty
to the lesser charge of culpable homicide

00:47:24.359 --> 00:47:27.799 align:center
whilst his brother Robert admitted
to teaming up with Alexander

00:47:27.879 --> 00:47:30.440 align:center
to hide and then bury the body.

00:47:33.480 --> 00:47:37.240 align:center
The court official said to me
that "The boys have accepted a plea."

00:47:37.879 --> 00:47:39.560 align:center
"So you are free to leave."

00:47:41.400 --> 00:47:44.400 align:center
"And you don't have a criminal record
for contempt of court."

00:47:49.879 --> 00:47:52.600 align:center
"And the Parsons family
want to thank you very much."

00:48:00.799 --> 00:48:03.440 align:center
-Did you go to the sentencing?
-I did.

00:48:04.160 --> 00:48:07.600 align:center
It was the final door to close.

00:48:07.680 --> 00:48:09.640 align:center
Call the diet.
Adjourned diet for sentence.

00:48:09.720 --> 00:48:10.799 align:center
His Majesty's Advocate

00:48:10.879 --> 00:48:13.160 align:center
against Alexander McKellar
and Robert McKellar.

00:48:13.240 --> 00:48:14.120 align:center
Please be seated.

00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:18.359 align:center
From where I was sitting,
I could see Sandy.

00:48:21.319 --> 00:48:22.160 align:center
And that…

00:48:23.440 --> 00:48:24.839 align:center
was really overwhelming.

00:48:25.600 --> 00:48:27.200 align:center
Mr. McConnachie.

00:48:27.879 --> 00:48:30.240 align:center
Sandy's barrister read a statement

00:48:30.319 --> 00:48:32.200 align:center
on Sandy's behalf to the judge.

00:48:33.480 --> 00:48:36.960 align:center
He accepts that whilst
catastrophically injured,

00:48:37.040 --> 00:48:40.200 align:center
Mr. Parsons was alive at the time.

00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:42.280 align:center
The only explanation

00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:49.160 align:center
which he offers is simply fear and panic.

00:48:49.240 --> 00:48:54.400 align:center
Using his words, he says he was
too much of a coward to come clean.

00:48:54.920 --> 00:48:58.040 align:center
When he met Caroline,

00:48:58.120 --> 00:49:00.160 align:center
and she went to the police,

00:49:00.240 --> 00:49:04.040 align:center
he fully accepts that, ultimately,

00:49:04.120 --> 00:49:07.160 align:center
she made the right decision in doing so.

00:49:09.120 --> 00:49:12.319 align:center
Very well. Alexander McKellar
and Robert McKellar, please stand.

00:49:13.200 --> 00:49:16.200 align:center
Then the judge gave out
the boys' sentences.

00:49:17.680 --> 00:49:19.240 align:center
Robert McKellar,

00:49:19.319 --> 00:49:21.520 align:center
the sentence which I now impose on you

00:49:21.600 --> 00:49:25.640 align:center
is one of a period of imprisonment
of five years and three months.

00:49:25.720 --> 00:49:27.600 align:center
Alexander McKellar,

00:49:27.680 --> 00:49:32.080 align:center
you have pleaded guilty
to grave and serious crimes.

00:49:32.160 --> 00:49:34.520 align:center
He wasn't convicted of murder,

00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:38.120 align:center
but he did take an innocent man's life.

00:49:39.680 --> 00:49:42.240 align:center
So for me,
he's a coward and he's a killer.

00:49:43.120 --> 00:49:44.160 align:center
Alexander McKellar,

00:49:44.760 --> 00:49:50.000 align:center
I will impose on you a single sentence
of imprisonment of 12 years.

00:49:51.480 --> 00:49:52.920 align:center
That is all.

00:49:58.879 --> 00:50:01.600 align:center
At sentencing,
a friend of Tony Parsons said these boys

00:50:01.680 --> 00:50:03.240 align:center
had got away with murder.

00:50:05.120 --> 00:50:08.960 align:center
There was a sense
that without Caroline's evidence,

00:50:09.040 --> 00:50:11.400 align:center
the full facts of this case,

00:50:11.480 --> 00:50:15.000 align:center
the full horror of it, perhaps,
never quite got across.

00:50:18.240 --> 00:50:23.720 align:center
I can well imagine that the family feel
there hasn't been a closure, in a way.

00:50:25.600 --> 00:50:27.480 align:center
If people think or wonder,

00:50:27.560 --> 00:50:30.480 align:center
if I had testified,
would they have had a harsher sentence?

00:50:32.040 --> 00:50:33.359 align:center
The state I was in,

00:50:34.319 --> 00:50:35.240 align:center
who knows?

00:50:38.120 --> 00:50:41.839 align:center
Had Caroline Muirhead
decided to say nothing,

00:50:42.520 --> 00:50:46.040 align:center
then Mr. Parsons
would still be buried on the estate.

00:50:46.640 --> 00:50:49.520 align:center
She did absolutely the right thing.

00:50:50.160 --> 00:50:54.120 align:center
You have to applaud her bravery,

00:50:54.799 --> 00:50:57.480 align:center
but the pressure
must have been unbearable.

00:50:57.560 --> 00:51:00.399 align:center
You'd be a hard person indeed
not to sympathize with her.

00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:03.200 align:center
Does part of you sympathize
with Caroline Muirhead?

00:51:03.280 --> 00:51:04.120 align:center
No.

00:51:04.200 --> 00:51:06.240 align:center
The whole circumstances

00:51:06.319 --> 00:51:10.080 align:center
in which she did not deal with things

00:51:10.160 --> 00:51:13.120 align:center
in a manner
which people would expect her to,

00:51:13.200 --> 00:51:15.000 align:center
take away, I think,

00:51:15.080 --> 00:51:19.040 align:center
from any sympathetic view
I might feel about her.

00:51:21.120 --> 00:51:25.720 align:center
If the criminal justice agencies

00:51:25.799 --> 00:51:29.560 align:center
want people to come forward as witnesses,

00:51:29.640 --> 00:51:33.040 align:center
they have to do better
at every single stage.

00:51:34.399 --> 00:51:37.680 align:center
There needs to be a real awareness

00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:42.600 align:center
of the trauma experienced by witnesses.

00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:54.760 align:center
I have no regrets about coming forward.

00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:58.280 align:center
This is what happened to me.
It's my story.

00:51:59.680 --> 00:52:01.720 align:center
I just hope other people
can learn from it,

00:52:01.799 --> 00:52:03.600 align:center
so they don't make
the same mistakes I made.

00:52:03.680 --> 00:52:07.319 align:center
Because, my God,
I made a hell of mistakes.

00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:18.560 align:center
I am so lucky
to be able to move forward in my life.

00:52:20.160 --> 00:52:21.960 align:center
I've moved to the coast.

00:52:22.040 --> 00:52:24.280 align:center
I've managed to get myself clean.

00:52:26.399 --> 00:52:28.319 align:center
I now see a psychiatrist.

00:52:30.240 --> 00:52:33.200 align:center
And I tackle
a lot of the insecurities that led me

00:52:33.280 --> 00:52:36.040 align:center
to be in the vulnerable relationship
to begin with.

00:52:38.399 --> 00:52:41.520 align:center
Change…

00:52:41.600 --> 00:52:43.120 align:center
Three, two, one, smile!

00:52:44.560 --> 00:52:47.839 align:center
I've got
a much better relationship with my family.

00:52:48.760 --> 00:52:49.879 align:center
Like skin…

00:52:49.960 --> 00:52:51.080 align:center
I met someone new,

00:52:52.120 --> 00:52:55.080 align:center
who is incredibly kind.

00:52:55.839 --> 00:52:57.160 align:center
When you love yourself,

00:52:58.319 --> 00:53:00.359 align:center
you will attract healthy love.

00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:01.520 align:center
Like the leaves…

00:53:01.600 --> 00:53:03.480 align:center
Onwards and upwards.

00:53:03.560 --> 00:53:04.640 align:center
Like a butterfly…

00:53:04.720 --> 00:53:07.399 align:center
-That's it.
-Thank God.

00:53:08.040 --> 00:53:09.240 align:center
Would you live forever…

00:53:09.319 --> 00:53:11.160 align:center
-We're done.
-We're done, Caroline.

00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:20.680 align:center
While everything around passes?

00:53:22.640 --> 00:53:28.040 align:center
Would you smile forever
Never cry?

00:53:29.480 --> 00:53:35.040 align:center
While everything you know passes

00:53:37.160 --> 00:53:43.240 align:center
Death's like a door

00:53:43.319 --> 00:53:50.120 align:center
To a place we've never been before

00:53:51.399 --> 00:53:56.760 align:center
Death's like space

00:53:58.200 --> 00:54:00.520 align:center
The deep sea

00:54:01.799 --> 00:54:04.240 align:center
The suitcase

00:54:05.920 --> 00:54:11.160 align:center
Would you stare forever at the sun

00:54:12.920 --> 00:54:17.560 align:center
Never watch the moon rising?

00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:25.319 align:center
Would you walk forever in the light

00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:33.280 align:center
To never learn the secret
Of the quiet night?
mily.

