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Britain's Most Evil Killers S02E07 Tracie Andrews
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00:01On December the 1st, 1996,
00:05Tracy Andrews and her fiancé, Lee Harvey,
00:08were driving home after a night out,
00:11when suddenly they began to be pursued by another car.
00:15It was a chase that would end in Lee's murder.
00:19He was stabbed in the throat, back, front,
00:23repeatedly, viciously, and continuously.
00:27Just two days later,
00:3027-year-old Tracy gave a heart-wrenching press conference
00:34appealing for the public's help to find her partner's killer.
00:38But all was not what it seemed.
00:42You can get me on the wheel of the car.
00:44You know, sometimes you change personality.
00:47And we all kind of looked at each other and thought,
00:50this, you know, this enormous story
00:52just got ten times bigger again if she is the killer.
00:56There had been no car chase.
00:58There had been no random attack.
01:00Tracy Andrews had stabbed her own fiancé to death
01:04and was trying to get away with murder.
01:07This is a woman of cunning, of deceit,
01:14and with a vicious temper.
01:17Tracy Andrews had deceived a nation
01:21in Britain and become one of Britain's most evil killers.
01:24It was a press conference that shocked Britain,
01:27when 27-year-old Tracy Andrews defiantly appeared
01:32in front of the world's media on December 3, 1996.
01:37She wept over the murder of her fiancé, Leigh Harvey.
01:39It was a press conference that shocked Britain,
01:42when 27-year-old Tracy Andrews defiantly appeared
01:45in front of the world's media on December 3, 1996.
01:47There was a press conference that shocked Britain
01:49when 27-year-old Tracey Andrews defiantly appeared
01:53in front of the world's media on December the 3rd, 1996.
01:58She wept over the murder of her fiancé, Lee Harvey.
02:02She claimed a stranger had stopped the couple in their car
02:05before stabbing her 25-year-old partner to death
02:09in a savage attack.
02:11I just tried to stop the meeting, really,
02:16and comfort him as much as I could.
02:19But it was all a lie.
02:21In reality, Andrews had killed Lee in the most brutal of manners.
02:27At her trial, Andrews continued to try and sell her fabricated story.
02:32The media were fascinated by her.
02:34Daily Mirror journalist Rod Chater managed to interview
02:38the wannabe model at Birmingham Crown Court
02:42on the day of her conviction.
02:45I sat next to Tracey. I didn't feel threatened, obviously.
02:48She's a killer, but we're not in any kind of environment
02:50in which she's likely to suddenly launch an attack on me.
02:54So I said, well, you know, do you stick to your story?
02:58Yes, I stick to my story.
03:00Did you kill him? No, I didn't.
03:03Just minutes later, Tracey Andrews was given a life sentence
03:08for the murder of her own fiancé.
03:10I worked as a national newspaper journalist for many years.
03:16I covered thousands of stories, dozens of murders.
03:20Some stories just stay with you,
03:25and this is one of the ones that stays with me.
03:29It's a story that begins over 45 years ago.
03:33Tracey Andrews was born on the 9th of April 1969
03:39in the West Midlands.
03:43Well, Tracey was brought up just outside Birmingham
03:45in Redditch and Alfchurch,
03:48and she was the middle child.
03:50She had an older sibling and a younger sibling
03:53and several half-siblings,
03:55and her parents broke up when she was around about six years old
03:58because they'd had quite a volatile relationship.
04:02The separation of her parents in 1975
04:06had a lasting effect on young Tracey.
04:11Well, Tracey's parents split up,
04:12and her mother got married to another man,
04:15and when we look at our parents' relationships,
04:17they are quite important because they inform our expectations
04:21of other people, our expectations of the relationships
04:24that we go on to have.
04:26Kids need attention, you know?
04:28They need to be loved and cuddled and everything,
04:30and a lot of kids that come from those kind of broken homes,
04:33and the case of Tracey,
04:35they want to be loved by mother, father or somebody,
04:38so that is definitely, in my opinion,
04:41one of the things that pushed her
04:43into always wanting the attention of other men.
04:46Tracey left school in 1986,
04:50and, aged 21, she had a baby daughter,
04:53but the relationship with her partner lasted barely a year,
04:58and they soon went their separate ways.
05:02What we've got here is a woman who doesn't like her partners
05:05having a life that doesn't involve her.
05:08She doesn't like her partners going out without her.
05:11She gets very jealous. She's very possessive.
05:13She certainly had a temper.
05:15Everybody who knew her said she had a temper,
05:18and when she lost her temper, everybody knew about it.
05:21She would shout at the top of her voice.
05:24The whole street would hear.
05:26By 1994, 25-year-old Tracey was living in a council flat
05:32in Alf Church and working as a barmaid,
05:35but her aspirations went far beyond pulling pints.
05:39She had visions, she had dreams of becoming a model,
05:44but, and, you know, she was very photogenic.
05:48She looked good on camera, and she knew it,
05:51and she had some pictures taken and a photo album put together,
05:56but that never really took off either.
05:59She became a barmaid working in a pub,
06:01but she still dressed very provocatively,
06:03and she still loved talking to men and chatting to men.
06:07Again, seeking the attention that she wanted to get as a model,
06:10because, obviously, when you're that pretty
06:12and you're a model, you do get a lot of attention.
06:16Living nearby to Tracey was 23-year-old Lee Harvey.
06:21He also had a daughter from a previous relationship.
06:26Lee Harvey was a young man from a very close family,
06:30and he worked as a bus driver for the West Midlands Travel,
06:34so this was a job that involved, you know,
06:36meeting many people on a daily basis.
06:38He was very outgoing.
06:41He was interested in cars and was always very well turned out,
06:45so he was your typical young Birmingham lad, essentially,
06:49very close to his mom, very close to his sister.
06:52The paths of the two young single parents would soon cross.
06:57Well, Lee and Tracey met in October 1994
07:00in Ritzy's nightclub in Birmingham,
07:03and this relationship really did develop at a lightning pace.
07:07They had moved in with one another
07:09only around three months into the relationship,
07:12so this was going very, very fast,
07:14and their relationship was quite a volatile one.
07:17They were both quite possessive, quite jealous,
07:20when it came to the other's relationships with the opposite sex,
07:25and you often find this in relationships that develop very quickly.
07:29You haven't got that foundation of trust that's been built.
07:31You're always a little bit kind of suspicious
07:33as to what the other person's up to,
07:35because you don't really know them.
07:37And they would row, and they would fight like cat and dog,
07:41and neighbors would report how voices would be raised
07:45at all hours of the day and night,
07:47and would go on and on for hours,
07:50and then stop, and then start again.
07:52The couple got engaged after just six months,
07:56but their volatile relationship would often see them break up,
08:00only to get back together again soon after.
08:04It was maybe almost a carbon copy
08:08of what Tracey grew up with in her house.
08:11She had a very explosive temper,
08:13and Lee Harvey also, in a way,
08:17wouldn't, like, just bow down to her screaming,
08:20so he would scream back.
08:22She was forever throwing him out into the street,
08:25and she would throw his clothes out of the window
08:27or in a black bin bag and chuck him out the front door,
08:29change the locks,
08:31and then they would have reconciliations.
08:34Lee would go back, more violence.
08:36Lee would leave. Lee would go back, more violence.
08:41This went on for a period of about two years.
08:44Their explosive relationship finally came to a head
08:48on December the 1st, 1996.
08:51So they'd been rowing all day.
08:55Lee tended to be the peacemaker,
08:57and it was probably Lee's suggestion,
09:00why don't we go for a drink?
09:02Why don't we just get a change of scene,
09:04a breath of fresh air, let's get out of here,
09:07let's just go and, you know, relax and have a drink,
09:10and that's what they did.
09:12But Lee Harvey would never make it home again.
09:16By 11 p.m., he would be dead.
09:19The only witness to the fatal altercation
09:22was his fiancée, Tracy Andrews,
09:24and her version of events would soon make it
09:27one of the most talked-about murders of the decade.
09:42On December the 1st, 1996, 27-year-old Tracy Andrews
09:48and her 25-year-old fiancée, Lee Harvey,
09:51were at a pub in Bromsgrove in the West Midlands.
09:55After arguing all day,
09:57the couple were trying to patch things up,
10:00but their night was about to turn deadly.
10:03Tracy claimed that after they'd left the pub
10:07and Lee was driving that they'd become involved
10:10in a road rage incident, essentially,
10:13that a man in a dark Ford Sierra,
10:15there'd been some kind of altercation,
10:17and he'd started following them.
10:19And she's suddenly aware that this car is behind,
10:22lights flashing right on their tail.
10:25Lee starts to accelerate.
10:27They're snaking together through the lanes.
10:30The other car then effectively draws Lee to a halt.
10:35Tracy later told detectives
10:37that the man following the couple
10:39along rural Cooper's Hill got out of his car,
10:43and Lee did the same.
10:45A confrontation was inevitable.
10:48The driver then has said what he wants to say, apparently.
10:52He gets back in the car.
10:54Lee is still outside of his car.
10:56And then the passenger gets out,
10:59a fat man with staring eyes,
11:02and he goes up to Lee and attacks Lee
11:05in a way that Tracy doesn't quite see.
11:13Then she piles in, she says, to go to Lee's defense,
11:16because she says she's not the kind of girl
11:19to just sit there and see her man being attacked,
11:22at which point she gets smacked by the fat man in the eyes
11:27and repeatedly gets up and is knocked down.
11:31And then she says, it all gets a bit hazy from that point,
11:34and then she kind of comes to almost, and Lee's there,
11:40and he's covered in blood, and she's cradling him,
11:43and it all goes very vague.
11:46Lee's car had ended up right outside a house called Keeper's Cottage.
11:52The commotion in the road had alerted one of the residents.
11:58The guy made his way down the little path to the road,
12:02and there sees, uh, in poor light, uh,
12:08just shown by the security light,
12:10but there's a woman standing there with her back to the car.
12:14There's a body, prone body on the, on the, on the floor.
12:19He instantly runs back into the house saying,
12:22call the police, call the police, call the ambulance.
12:25The case was immediately given
12:27to Detective Superintendent Ian Johnston.
12:31I received a call from West Mercer Constabulary Operations Room,
12:36which directed me to the scene at Cooglis Hill,
12:38where I met with divisional representatives.
12:41Uh, present at that time was, uh, Lee's car, Lee's body,
12:46and Tracy Andrews was inside Keeper's Cottage,
12:49having been found in the road outside.
12:52I could see Lee's vehicle.
12:55It was pulled in on the near side of the road,
12:57travelling towards Alf Church,
12:58and it didn't appear to have, um,
13:00been stopped in any great hurry.
13:02It looked as though it had been fairly neatly parked to the side.
13:06Detectives at the scene spoke to Tracy
13:09to find out exactly what had happened.
13:12The incident appeared to have started
13:14from the Marlbrook Public House.
13:16Uh, there'd been a, a road situation down the A38
13:21towards the M42 motorway.
13:23Lee's car had been stopped, uh,
13:25uh, and then an altercation had taken place
13:27between a member of that chasing vehicle and Lee.
13:31Lee collapsed.
13:32Uh, and then the other vehicle made its, uh, made its escape.
13:37Lee Harvey died at the scene.
13:39It was clear that he'd been the victim
13:41of a savage and frenzied attack.
13:44This is a severe, sustained, brutal attack
13:51with a penknife.
13:53Now, the estimates of how many wounds Lee suffered vary.
13:58Some local reports said 42.
14:01What is clear, he was stabbed in the throat, back, front,
14:05repeatedly, viciously, and continuously.
14:09To produce 42 stab wounds, it's a sustained assault.
14:13It's 42 movements of your hand.
14:17This is not something that you can do in a second
14:19or two seconds in a moment of madness.
14:22You have to keep going, and it is not easy.
14:26In Lee Harvey's case, the fatal stab wound
14:29was a stab wound to the carotid artery.
14:32That is, a large artery in the neck,
14:34and a stab wound to an artery of that size
14:37is going to cause very rapid, very heavy bleeding.
14:42Without prompt medical attention,
14:44it's most likely to be a fatal injury.
14:47With an initial statement taken,
14:50a bruised and bloodied Tracy Andrews
14:53was whisked away in an ambulance.
14:56And, uh, she's treated for those injuries
14:59and for shock in hospital and cared for and tended for
15:04while police launch a massive murder hunt
15:08for whoever has done this terrible thing to lead.
15:12Tracy had told us that the following vehicle,
15:15which had followed them from the Marlbrook,
15:18was a dark-colored Ford Sierra, F-registered.
15:22And, obviously, we started a vehicle inquiry with the DVLA
15:26for the, uh, owner details of any vehicle
15:30that might fit that description.
15:33As reports of the apparent road rage murder
15:36reached news desks across the country,
15:39journalists immediately headed to the West Midlands.
15:43From the very first moment,
15:45it was clear that this was going to be a huge story,
15:47an absolutely huge story.
15:49Just the idea of a road rage murder
15:51made it already a big story.
15:53Um, and as the first morning progressed,
15:57everything we discovered made it a bigger story.
16:00Photographs began to emerge of Tracy.
16:04She looked an attractive young woman.
16:07Photographs began to emerge of Lee, the victim.
16:10Handsome young man.
16:12And so, more and more of the elements
16:16that make a big story young, attractive, bizarre,
16:21unimaginable circumstances all started slotting into place.
16:25Detectives knew that the best way to try and find the killer
16:29was to make an appeal through the media.
16:32A press conference was arranged for Tuesday, December the 3rd,
16:36two days after the fatal attack.
16:39I met Tracy somewhere around about 10 a.m., I believe,
16:42just before we were going to do the press conference.
16:45I asked her if she was content to do the press conference,
16:48if it was something that she wanted to do.
16:50She said that she was.
16:51She said she really wanted to do it.
16:53This hugely hiked up the media interest
16:58because we were going to have, put in front of us,
17:01it was said, the key witness and someone.
17:06We'd all seen the pictures by this time, an attractive blonde,
17:09and she was going to sit there in front of us
17:11and answer our questions.
17:13There was massive media interest in this.
17:15As the press conference began,
17:17all the focus was on 27-year-old Tracy.
17:24The noise of the, uh, cameras, the motor drives going off
17:30as Tracy walked in the room was absolutely deafening.
17:34Um, uh, uh, and appearing in front of us,
17:37uh, I don't think we'd all thought what would appear, really,
17:42but we'd all seen these glamorous shots.
17:45Here was, um, a woman, red-eyed, haggard, uh, completely unmade up,
17:51two black eyes cut on her nose.
17:54And Tracy did look like a victim.
17:56Um, she had the injuries to her face.
17:59She looked incredibly distressed, incredibly upset.
18:02But Tracy seemed very comfortable when faced with all the camera flashes
18:06and questions from the journalists.
18:09The press really wanted to hear from Tracy.
18:12And so, I, you know, I became a bit of a sideline, really,
18:15which was fine.
18:16You know, it was about, it was about the story.
18:18It was about the, uh, the situation.
18:21And the press were interested in Tracy,
18:23and she was quite happy to, to deal with the press.
18:26Both me and the other person were, like, playing cat and mouse
18:33with each other for a while.
18:35Um, and they overtook us.
18:39I was shouting at me to, you know, slow down, just ignore them,
18:44stop the cubby.
18:45I don't know.
18:46I don't know if a lot of men are like it,
18:48and a lot of women are like it,
18:49and get behind the wheel of a car.
18:51You know, sometimes you change personality.
18:53During the press conference,
18:56when talking about the alleged killer,
18:59uh, there was a moment when suddenly her eyes came up,
19:08and she was mostly downcast throughout the press conference,
19:11but her eyes came up,
19:12and they flashed fiercely,
19:15and her mouth dropped open a bit
19:17with that famous, slightly jutting drawer,
19:20and she looked really angry.
19:24And at that point, again,
19:26all the motor drives went off.
19:28Every press photographer reacted to that.
19:30It was a crash of noise
19:32as every camera was, was, was hit.
19:35It was just the way he looked.
19:38His, his eyes was, he had scary eyes.
19:41Um, it just didn't seem normal.
19:44I saw the man hit me.
19:47I don't know what with.
19:49I didn't see anything.
19:51And suddenly, she starts appealing to the driver of the car,
19:56saying, you're not in any trouble, you know,
19:58come forward and tell the police what it's all about.
20:01Um, whoever this person is that was with you,
20:04you obviously know him.
20:06But, he's ruined my life.
20:09Please, just tell us who he is,
20:11because you won't get in any trouble at all.
20:13It was not your fault.
20:15And I'm thinking, well, that's not strictly true, is it?
20:18You've driven your friend to the, to a murder scene,
20:21and he's killed someone, and you've driven him away.
20:23So you are in, you are in trouble, but, uh, okay.
20:27And as the questioning progressed,
20:30Tracy seemed to contradict her original statement.
20:34I said, Tracy, sorry,
20:36but I, I, I clearly understood the police to say
20:39that it was about 10 past 10 when you left the pub.
20:42And she kind of looked at me,
20:44sort of head down under her lashes,
20:47and said, no, it was 10 to 10.
20:51And sat on her left was Superintendent James.
20:56And I just saw him react to that answer from Tracy.
21:03And very slowly, his head turned to the right.
21:07And he just looked at her in a kind of assessing way,
21:12a kind of appraising way.
21:15And at that moment, I thought, wow,
21:18there's something going on here.
21:20I just tried to stop the bleeding, really.
21:25And comfort him as much as I could.
21:28The inconsistency in Tracy's story
21:31surprised the majority of reporters in the room.
21:34The press conference finished,
21:36uh, and the national newspaper journalists
21:40gathered outside in a bit of a pack,
21:42uh, as, as we would tend to do,
21:45all friends, all know each other, work against each other.
21:47And somebody said, what do you think?
21:50And I said, I think she did it.
21:54And we all kind of looked at each other and thought,
21:58this, you know, this enormous story just got 10 times bigger again,
22:03if, if she, if she is the killer.
22:05Was it really conceivable that Tracy Andrews had been lying all along?
22:11As the investigation continued,
22:13new evidence suggested that maybe there was no road rage incident at all.
22:18Andrews would go from the only witness to the number one suspect
22:23in the murder of Lee Harvey.
22:37On December the 3rd, 1996,
22:4027-year-old Tracy Andrews appeared
22:43at an emotionally charged press conference
22:45in an appeal to find the passenger of a Ford Sierra,
22:49who she claimed had stabbed her fiancé, Lee Harvey, to death.
22:53But unbeknownst to Andrews,
22:55the police were beginning to work out the truth
22:58that she had been the one responsible
23:01for the murder of 25-year-old Lee.
23:04It's self-preservation.
23:06That's what's driving her behavior at this point in time.
23:08Um, she's got absolutely no empathy whatsoever for Lee
23:12or for Lee's family, or indeed for her own family,
23:15who are also going to be really badly affected by this.
23:18So she's thinking, how do I best preserve myself?
23:21I'm going to take that role of the victim,
23:23and I'm going to put myself in it.
23:25Andrews' claim that she and Lee had been the victim
23:28of a road rage incident didn't seem to add up.
23:32A witness statement from a child staying in a house
23:35on Cooper's Hill put her version of events in doubt.
23:40It was December. The, uh, the windows were closed.
23:43But she could clearly hear a row going on.
23:48What she remembered was that one was a distinctly male,
23:54baritone voice.
23:56The other voice was much softer.
23:58And, uh, she said it was much more like a woman's voice.
24:03Forensic searches of the road had discovered more clues
24:07into what really happened.
24:09We couldn't get anywhere near the scene on the first morning,
24:14or indeed for a, uh, a few days afterwards.
24:16The police completely sealed it off while they drafted in officers
24:19to carry out a fingertip search of the area.
24:22What they found, we later discovered,
24:25were a couple of bits and pieces, including a tiny spring
24:28and another element from a multi-function, uh, pen knife.
24:33What police didn't find, uh, was any trace
24:38of a car overtaking another car
24:41on the soft December winter verges
24:45of this pretty narrow road.
24:47Police had also found a black beanie hat
24:51in the hedgerow next to where Lee's car had been parked.
24:55So our assumption was,
24:58well, this has maybe fallen out of the, uh, assailant's pocket,
25:02and he's not realized it.
25:04So, of course, um,
25:06that went to the laboratory fairly quickly
25:08with a view towards DNA and, uh, from hair samples,
25:11that sort of thing.
25:12And, um, we had the report back by the Wednesday
25:15that this was animal hair,
25:17and it was cat hair, black and white cat hair.
25:19Well, there's a black and white cat that traces.
25:22And so we went down and took a sample
25:24of hair from the cat, and it was the cat hair.
25:27And then, as I understand it later on,
25:31it was accepted that this was Lee's hat,
25:35but had been in Tracy's pocket
25:37prior to the, uh, offence taking place.
25:41Andrew's lie about the hat
25:43was just one of many inconsistencies in her story.
25:47In Lee's hand, they found between 80 and 100 strands
25:51of a Tracy's hair that have been pulled from Tracy's head
25:54as Lee has tried to defend himself.
25:56Now, if Lee had been murdered by this, this fat man
25:59with staring eyes, why would he have Tracy's hair in his hand?
26:03Well, the pathologist's evidence was that this was more
26:06than just a, uh, a death grasp stroking,
26:10that it was a reasonable clump, that it had a good pull.
26:14But, of course, Tracy's view was, well, this must have been
26:18when he was, uh, he was going and he, uh,
26:22he got his hand in my hair, you know?
26:24So it came as a sort of, as Lee was passing away,
26:28he'd pulled some hair from her head.
26:30It was beginning to look more and more likely
26:33that Andrews had killed Lee in a fit of rage.
26:37I mean, if you attack somebody there,
26:40you're supposed to be in love with and stab him 42 times,
26:43and that's pretty out of control.
26:47She wasn't thinking to herself as she set off
26:49from the pub that evening,
26:51oh, tonight's the night I think I'm going to kill Lee.
26:54She just exploded like a volcano.
26:57Over a matter of minutes, literally,
27:00she went from mildly angry to obsessively angry,
27:05and that, therefore, he had to die.
27:08When we talk about premeditated murder,
27:10we tend to assume that it's something that's days, weeks,
27:13or months in the planning, but actually,
27:15premeditation only needs to take seconds.
27:18Um, you only need to have a few seconds to decide
27:21that you are going to end somebody's life,
27:23and she made that decision on this evening.
27:26And it seemed that Andrews' guilty conscience
27:29was beginning to get the better of her.
27:31On Wednesday, December the 4th,
27:33the day after the Telltale press conference,
27:36she tried to kill herself.
27:38Tracy takes an overdose,
27:40and I think this is a very deliberate,
27:42a very determined act on her part.
27:44I think she was absolutely set on ending her own life,
27:48because over the past few days,
27:50the situation has spiraled completely out of her control.
27:54She's trying to keep her story together.
27:56She's trying to present this face as the victim,
27:59and it's all getting a bit too much,
28:01because it's starting to unravel.
28:02So I think this is an attempt to take back control,
28:05to say, actually, I'm going to decide to do something now
28:08that I'm fully in control of, and that's what this was.
28:12On the same evening, detectives were given their biggest steer yet.
28:17Two people had seen Lee's distinctive white Ford escort
28:21on the night of his murder.
28:23Two witnesses who said,
28:26We've seen it in the local paper.
28:28I know I've seen this white car.
28:30We were driving from Alf Church in the opposite direction.
28:34We came through Cooper's Hill, past Keeper's Cottage.
28:38We came down the hill,
28:39and as we came to the junction at the bottom,
28:42I saw this car go past,
28:44and he said,
28:45it's a white Escort G Reg, spoked wheels,
28:49everything that it was.
28:51And he said that, you know,
28:52there is no doubt that was the car.
28:54He said,
28:55and from that point to when we got into Bromsgrove,
28:58we saw no car that fits any description of what you've been told,
29:03and there certainly wasn't any car chasing that car
29:06in the vicinity of Cooper's Hill.
29:08So we'd got the confirmation that we were looking for
29:12that the road rage incident had not occurred,
29:17and so that changed the way that we looked at the investigation.
29:22Her story really was starting to crumble
29:24at that point in time,
29:25and combined with her suicide attempt,
29:27I think the police decided that's enough evidence.
29:30We can now move in and arrest her.
29:33On Saturday, December the 7th, 1996,
29:36six days after Lee's murder,
29:38Tracey Andrews was arrested in hospital
29:41and taken into custody.
29:43The 27-year-old woman was arrested at 11 o'clock today,
29:47but so far, detectives have released no further details.
29:50Until this development,
29:52the police had been looking for two men
29:54who they believe may have escaped from the scene
29:57in a dark Ford Sierra.
29:59The evidence from the two witnesses
30:01who'd seen Lee Harvey's vehicle
30:04through the junction that night was extremely impactive.
30:08And, um, realistically,
30:11without a following vehicle,
30:13without a dark-colored Ford Sierra chasing that car,
30:17then the whole being of that explanation from Tracey
30:20just didn't stand up.
30:22Further evidence pointed towards Andrews being the killer
30:26after the clothes she was wearing on the night of the murder
30:29were forensically tested.
30:31The forensic scientist,
30:33who had examined one of Tracey's zip-up boots,
30:36she had a pair of ankle boots on,
30:38and within that he'd found a mark in the leather
30:41which had a rounded top on it
30:43and seemed to bear all the impression
30:46of the outside shape of the knife.
30:49And that's the hypothesis
30:53that she carried the knife away from the scene in her boot,
30:56uh, and that as soon as she got to the hospital,
30:59she was able to dispose of it.
31:01She could have easily just, like, thrown the knife
31:03into the grass or into the forest, whatever it was,
31:06um, and hoped the police wouldn't find it.
31:09But she even thought, no, dude,
31:11these guys are gonna bring dogs,
31:12they're gonna, you know, search the whole area,
31:14they'll probably find something.
31:16Tracey Andrews was officially charged
31:19with the murder of Lee Harvey on December the 19th, 1996.
31:24Her trial was set for July,
31:26and she was going to plead not guilty.
31:29Andrews was sticking to her story.
31:32The prosecution would have to prove that she was a liar,
31:35or she could walk away free.
31:38On July the 1st, 1997,
31:54the trial of Tracey Andrews began at Birmingham Crown Court.
31:58The 28-year-old was pleading not guilty
32:01to the murder of her fiancé, Lee Harvey,
32:04exactly seven months earlier.
32:06The media attention surrounding Andrews
32:09and the trial was huge.
32:14I was at the trial every day at Birmingham Crown Court.
32:17Uh, it was compelling, unmissable,
32:19and was being widely reported in all the media every day
32:23and every evening on all the TV news bulletins.
32:27The prosecution team, led by David Krigman,
32:31were confident that they had a strong case against Andrews.
32:35As well as the two witness statements
32:37that contradicted her road rage story,
32:40the blood pattern analysis of her orange jumper was key.
32:45She was covered in blood,
32:47which she claimed had come onto her clothing
32:50when she was comforting him as he died,
32:52as she held him in the road.
32:54But a lot of this blood was sprayed blood.
32:58It was arterial blood that had come out of the carotid in a fountain
33:04and sprayed like a waterfall down the front of her clothing.
33:09In a lot of cases of stabbing, particularly to the chest or the abdomen,
33:14a lot of the bleeding is internal
33:16because the large organs and blood vessels are deep within the body.
33:20The carotid artery is very close to the surface,
33:24so if it's breached, it will spray blood under pressure from the heart
33:29out of that wound, out into the air,
33:33and it will land on things next to it.
33:36In particular, in this case, Tracy Andrews, the assailant.
33:39The evidence may have appeared to be compelling,
33:42but Andrews herself had already proved to be extremely convincing
33:47when under intense scrutiny.
33:50I thought she'd done it.
33:51I thought she was the killer.
33:53But bearing in mind how she'd handled the press conference
33:57a couple of days after the murder,
34:00I thought that she stood a good chance of getting away with it.
34:04But as ever, as is always the case,
34:07everything would hinge on the cross-examination
34:11of Tracy in the witness box,
34:14should she choose to give evidence,
34:16once the defence began.
34:18On Monday, July the 14th,
34:20Tracy Andrews took the stand to give her testimony.
34:24There was genuine apprehension in the prosecution camp
34:28that a jury may be persuaded by not only the story,
34:33but the skill, I would say,
34:35the skill with which she was able to advance what she had to say.
34:39Tracy stood in the witness box now,
34:42having moved from the dock, and gave her account,
34:45which largely followed the account that she'd been giving
34:48to the police all along through her statements,
34:52the road rage story, the chase through the lanes,
34:55and the stabbing and the road rage attack.
34:58And she gave it calmly and, in some senses, convincingly.
35:05Prosecutors knew that the cross-examination of Andrews
35:09would be their best chance at cracking her veneer of lies.
35:14And it went on and on and on.
35:19It went on for hours.
35:21It not only took the whole of that afternoon,
35:23it took the whole of the next day and into a third day.
35:27And in that time, the highly intellectual David Krugman
35:32just took her story apart.
35:35He just deconstructed it around her.
35:38She was left there, effectively, naked in the middle of her story,
35:44in shreds on the floor.
35:46I came to the view that the only way you could dissect her story
35:52was piece by little piece by little piece, detail by detail.
35:59It was the accumulation of a large number of details
36:03where she could be shown not to be telling the truth
36:06that could break her down.
36:08It was only within the finest of detail,
36:10as one mounted on top of the next,
36:13that you began to see the story as a pack of lies.
36:17And she was reduced to standing there saying,
36:21I don't know. I can't remember.
36:24I don't know. I can't remember.
36:27And at every point, her credibility diminished.
36:32And at that point, I thought, okay,
36:35I think she's going to get found guilty.
36:38On July the 29th, in an unprecedented move,
36:42Andrews agreed to be interviewed by a newspaper journalist
36:46as the jury retired to make a decision on her fate.
36:50She met with Rod Chater in a private room at the court.
36:55And there was Tracy, sat there, made up, composed,
37:00sat at a table, her lawyers,
37:02and I sat down and interviewed her.
37:05It was absolutely bizarre.
37:07Never in 35 years on Fleet Street, never did it before,
37:12never did it again, interview the accused
37:15while the jury's out. Extraordinary.
37:17So I started to ask her questions.
37:19Rod had to work fast to get all the information he could.
37:24The basic message that she was giving was,
37:27I didn't do it, I'm innocent, and I'll love him till the day I die.
37:32And that was the message from the exclusive mirror interview that I did.
37:36And I'd been there about 20 minutes and was just beginning to come to the end of the story,
37:43just beginning to kind of think, OK, well, what's the next question?
37:46And the tannoy went, and the tannoy went, all parties to court nine, all parties to court nine.
37:55You just felt, wow, the jury are back, there's a verdict.
37:58Rod headed back to his seat in the press box.
38:02We kind of went out separate ways and ended up a few feet from each other in court.
38:07And the judge came in, everybody stood up.
38:10The foreman of the jury, will you please stand?
38:13Do you have a verdict on which you are all agreed?
38:16Yes, we do. What is that verdict? Guilty.
38:20Despite the strain that Tracey Andrews must have felt during four weeks in the dock,
38:26she didn't even flinch as the jury foreman told her that she was guilty.
38:30Even though she kept her head bowed, her face remained impassive,
38:33even as the judge said to her, only you know precisely what happened that night.
38:37But we all saw the awful consequences.
38:39He said he had no option but to send her to prison for life.
38:42She showed almost no emotion.
38:48She shook her head once like that, just as in, no, or I don't agree, whatever.
38:56But that was the only reaction.
39:00And she was then led down the steps from the dock into the cell area below.
39:07She saw her family briefly before she was taken away.
39:12They were allowed brief access to her.
39:14At that point, she did break down in tears.
39:16At that time, she was completely tearful, um, uh, and terrified about what was going to happen to her
39:24and what awaited her in prison from other inmates.
39:26In public, she had maintained her composure to the last, really, in private.
39:31Um, she was terrified.
39:34On the 29th of July, 1997, Judge Mr. Justice Broccoli sentenced Tracy Andrews
39:42to life in prison for the murder of Lee Harvey.
39:46She was ordered to serve a minimum of 14 years.
39:52Well, when we asked the question, why do we think Tracy Andrews stabbed Lee Harvey,
39:56it was because she felt that Lee was hers.
39:59He was her possession.
40:01This wasn't a relationship that was about love.
40:03It was a relationship that was about control and ownership.
40:06And in ending somebody's life, you are completely possessing them.
40:10And that was what was going on on that evening when she chose to take Lee's life.
40:15In April 1999, Andrews finally admitted that her story about a mysterious road rage killer had been completely made up.
40:2521 months after her conviction, in a letter to her solicitor, Tracy Andrews confessed, for the first time, that she had indeed killed Lee Harvey, but that he was entirely in self-defense.
40:41Now, how she could maintain that, given that he had stab wounds in his back, and he was bigger than she was, I find that very difficult to believe, but nevertheless, that's what she insisted.
40:56Tracy Andrews had gone from a wannabe model to a model prisoner.
41:01In July 2011, after serving her 14 years, she was released back into society and ordered not to go within 25 miles of Lee Harvey's family.
41:13I think it is absolutely possible for Tracy Andrews to live a normal life.
41:18I think if she's come to terms with her offense, if she's addressed those underlying behavioral traits and characteristics,
41:25if she's prepared to just keep her head down and get on with her life, then yes, very much she can do that.
41:31And I think she should appreciate the fact that she's able to do that because murder casts a long shadow
41:38and that there are many people who have been affected by this crime, who continue to be affected by it.
41:43But she has the opportunity now to ensure that she doesn't cause any more harm to people
41:49and that she can make a contribution to society.
41:52It's been over 20 years since Tracy Andrews took away the life of her fiancé
41:58in a brutal and vicious attack.
42:01It remains one of the most infamous murders of the 1990s.
42:07Violence on this occasion was not the first occasion that she had used violence.
42:13This is a woman of cunning, of deceit, and with a vicious temper.
42:23It's often described as a crime of passion,
42:26and I tend not to use that term because I think what we're implying there
42:30is that she wasn't in control of her actions.
42:32She didn't know what she was doing.
42:34This rage came over her and she couldn't help herself.
42:37I think she knew exactly what she was doing.
42:39When you stab somebody 42 times, you are deciding to continue doing this.
42:44Your arm is going to be tired.
42:46There are going to be opportunities for you to stop, and you decide to keep going.
42:50That is prolonged ferocity.
42:54That's going on and on and on and on.
42:57That's not a momentary flash of anger.
42:59That's uncontrollable rage lasting a significant period of time.
43:05It's a shocking, shocking thought.
43:08And the fact that a woman has done it makes it twice as shocking.
43:12Tracey Andrews' case will always remain in the public psyche
43:17due to her persistent lying, first to the police,
43:21then to the world's media, and finally in a court of law.
43:25But although she'll forever be remembered for her crocodile tears,
43:29it should never be forgotten that she killed Lee Harvey
43:32in a horrific and frenzied attack without a shred of remorse,
43:37which undoubtedly makes her one of Britain's most evil killers.
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