00:00 My name is Roger Parrish, I'm Joanna's father and beside me is Pauline, Jo's mother.
00:07 I'd just like to read out a short statement now, if I could do.
00:12 We're satisfied that the court has recognised Monique Olivier's part in the murder of our daughter and sister.
00:25 There's never been any doubt in our minds that her presence was a major part in gaining Jo's confidence
00:32 and her active participation in her murder has been proved beyond any doubt.
00:39 We do hope now, after this last obstacle, that we can remember our daughter and sister with a smile on our faces,
00:51 which is how all of her friends remember her.
00:55 After Christmas we're going to take a holiday as this is an extremely personal moment for our family
01:04 and we do ask that our privacy is respected at this time. Thank you.
01:11 The strongest feeling is one of relief at the verdict and that the jurors and the court has recognised Monique Olivier's major part in our daughter's murder.
01:24 I think I would have wanted to have faced him in court but frankly I don't really think that would have made any difference to him anyway,
01:34 knowing the kind of person that he was, a psychopath, a completely narcissistic psychopath who only thought of himself.
01:41 So yes, I, not cheated exactly, but I would have wanted to have been there when he was still alive,
01:48 but he's dead now and the world's a better place for it.
01:51 I think I feel mainly that, thank God, he's not around to kill anybody else.
01:57 She won't be around, but I just can't help but think that if the police at the beginning, the gendarmes,
02:07 had at the beginning done their job properly then a lot of other girls would still be alive because he would have been caught.
02:13 But I don't know why they didn't, they just were completely inadequate.
02:19 Well we were determined right from the start that it would just take as long as it takes.
02:25 Of course we never really thought that it would take 33 years.
02:28 And there have been periods, perhaps during the 1990s before Faunieret was identified,
02:36 that we thought maybe we're going to have to be doing this for the rest of our lives.
02:41 But as soon as he and Monique Olivier were identified in the early 2000s,
02:48 certainly I was absolutely convinced that they were responsible, with or without the evidence.
02:55 So did you fear you would ever get to this point?
02:58 Well we were still alive.
03:02 We just kept thinking that we were both getting older.
03:06 Well it didn't make a difference.
03:10 We'd still go on fighting, we'd still go on struggling.
03:14 We've tried to get on with our lives and I think we both have done.
03:20 We've both got certain interests and pleasures and of course we've got our grandchildren now,
03:25 a big part of our lives.
03:28 And if we still had to devote some of our time to carrying on this struggle, then we would have done.
03:37 For the person that she was, we've had so many letters and lately emails and comments from friends,
03:49 people who were neighbours at her primary school, at her grammar school, at university.
03:56 Just people that knew her, that all say very, very similar things.
04:00 That she was kind, helpful, hard working and very conscientious.
04:06 Never ever did we have to force her into getting down to work, she'd just do it.
04:11 And that's how we'll go on remembering her.
04:14 And her smile.
04:15 And her smile of course, yeah.
04:18 I look at the sun and the sun reminds me of Jo actually.
04:22 I always think of her and other people in the village have said the same thing.
04:27 Smile and look at the sun and there's Jo.
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