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The Beauty Queen And The Catfish - Season 1 Episode 1 - The Mystery Medic
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00:01My heart is, like, literally pounding.
00:05I woke up mid-panic attack.
00:08Couldn't wake myself up properly to, like, open my eyes.
00:13And I was just panicking, like,
00:15thinking that someone was at my front door.
00:18I've got CCTV, I've got the doors double-locked,
00:21I have a house alarm, but this is how it affects me.
00:24So how does it affect all the other girls?
00:27I'm going to calm myself down a little bit
00:30and try and find out what has happened today.
00:40It was like he came out of nowhere.
00:43I was like, oh, who is this good-looking guy?
00:46How have we not come across this guy?
00:48Because Kilmarnock is quite a small town.
00:50Couldn't stop loading his pictures and thinking,
00:52oh, he's dreamy.
00:54But I also thought, a bit too good for me.
00:57And the thing is, as well, like, David knew a lot about me.
01:00Because he was there.
01:02He was watching me.
01:03Me and the others.
01:05He got really quite intense.
01:07Is that you palming me off already?
01:10I just thought, who is this psycho?
01:12I just felt sick.
01:14This person, who's of a good profession, is doing this.
01:18Why?
01:19Why?
01:20What do you get out of it?
01:21I went through every emotion.
01:23You don't want to believe that your child's capable of these kind of things.
01:27This small town situation blew up and became front page news, and then spread all over the world.
01:34The number of charges being read out to the court.
01:37It was pages and pages of jaw-dropping stuff.
01:40And all three of us were just, like, in shot.
01:43We were like, no way.
01:44Everything just came rushing towards me.
01:47I would never have ever thought that this was David.
01:49Like, who does that?
02:19I think I probably am putting a target on my back, telling this story.
02:30Because I genuinely don't know what's going to happen next.
02:35But at the same time, there's so many things we don't know.
02:43Hey, I'm just sending you a wee voice note, because we won't find out anything else,
02:48unless maybe they get recalled or something like that.
02:50But I do know that police and social work are going to check in on them every so often.
02:55It's such a small town, it's affected Kilmarnock hugely,
02:58because everybody knows about it.
03:01How many women in Kilmarnock have been affected by this?
03:05I've spoken to at least maybe 80 to 100.
03:09I think a lot of women that are involved in this maybe don't realise
03:13it's a police matter until they speak to me.
03:16I'm not trained in this. I'm not trained in being a police officer or a detective.
03:20But when people do tell me their stories, I automatically go into this web.
03:25It's like a big web that comes out and I start connecting this, this, this and this and this.
03:29I've always been this way, though. Like, I've always been with everything.
03:32Like, if someone's not going to do it, I'll do it, it's fine.
03:35I'll do it better. I'll do it better.
03:37It's so annoying.
03:47Kilmarnock is quite a small town in Scotland.
03:50And sometimes, like, everyone's almost related, I feel like, because we all know each other that much.
03:58There's really maybe, like, two nightclubs.
04:01Everyone has dated the same people.
04:06But growing up, I never felt like I fit into Kilmarnock.
04:11So, this is the Miss Scotland final 2012.
04:26This is, like, the final...?
04:27Yeah, the final of the top ten.
04:30I always watched Miss Scotland, like, I always remember it being in the paper
04:33and thinking, like, that's what I want to do.
04:35It's... Nicole Tracy!
04:42I didn't win Miss Scotland,
04:44but it was a really, really exciting time
04:47and it opened a lot of doors for me.
04:55I got a job as an air hostess
04:58and I moved to Abu Dhabi.
05:00And I was travelling to places like Sydney, Australia, Toronto.
05:07I never, ever thought in my life I'd go to the Great Wall of China.
05:11Bigger airlines put you in five-star hotels
05:14and they travel you about everywhere business class.
05:17I just had such a great time doing it.
05:19I was just about to go on a flight when I got a call to say that my grandad had had a stroke.
05:36When I got that phone call, the first place I wanted to be was with him
05:39because he's, like, such a big part of my life.
05:42Growing up, I saw my grandad every day.
05:48He was practically my parent.
05:51As soon as I got off that flight, like, I was in the car,
05:55like, exhausted, driving all the way back to Scotland.
06:01I bought a Red Bull, put my car into, like, this automatic mode
06:04so I didn't even have to put my foot on the pedal.
06:10I don't think I even had music on.
06:13I just was silent all the way up, just hoping that it was going to be OK.
06:18So I remember going in the hospital and my mum was there
06:31and my grandad was attached to just, like, the kind of heart rate monitor.
06:39I remember the machines.
06:43There was a porter that was always in, sweeping up.
06:45There was a nice nurse who was always, like, checking in on him,
06:50making sure he was OK,
06:52and she would have been the person that was giving my mum updates and stuff,
06:55so I felt like he was being really looked after.
07:00Like, in my movie, that's, like, the opening scene
07:03and it always plays over and over again.
07:07It was a strange time.
07:12My grandad was stable,
07:13so I decided to move closer to home to be near him.
07:19And then I just got home from the hospital
07:23and I got a friend request from a random guy, David Graham.
07:30And literally a couple of minutes later I had a private message.
07:34Hi, is your grandad John Draper?
07:35Yeah, I am. How come do you work at the hospital?
07:37And he replied, yes, I'm your grandad's doctor.
07:40So I went back on the profile.
07:42He's a really good-looking guy, good haircut, had a good body,
07:47looked professional, going down to London for meetings.
07:50There was pictures of, like, stethoscopes.
07:51He was posting pictures of his niece.
07:52He was also saying, like, we're having sleepovers and we're doing all these things.
07:56I put a comment on his post because he seemed really, really nice.
07:57Like, he had, like, this nice kid inside.
07:58There's just something, like, really a really good-looking guy.
07:59He's a really good-looking guy.
08:00Good haircut, had a good body, looked professional, going down to London for meetings.
08:05He was doing a lot of things.
08:06There was pictures of, like, stethoscopes.
08:09He was posting pictures of his niece.
08:11He was also saying, like, we're having sleepovers and we're doing all these things.
08:18I put a comment on his post because he seemed really, really nice.
08:21Like, he had, like, this nice kid inside.
08:24There's just something, like, really attractive about that.
08:29And the first thing I did was phone my mum.
08:32My mum had me quite young, so she's not that much older than me.
08:36So we do kind of appreciate the same good-looking guy.
08:41I said, aw, who's grandad's doctor?
08:43And she's like, why?
08:44And I'm like, is it a guy, David Graham?
08:46And she went, no.
08:47I've met him, it's an older guy.
08:49And I was like, oh, OK.
08:52He's maybe filled in one day, she's maybe just not met him yet.
08:55And I've met the good-looking guy before she has, type thing.
08:58That's it, I actually think that is probably how I felt.
09:01Probably, like, ha-ha, I see no more.
09:04Like...
09:28When I look back now, it's wild.
09:31There's new stuff all the time that I'm thinking of, and I'm like,
09:33oh, my God, I remember that, I remember that.
09:36You know, I can't believe that this happened.
09:41At the time, I was working in a retail store in Glasgow.
09:45It was brilliant.
09:46It was a really great job, and I'd work weekends,
09:48and that's where then I could go out with the girls,
09:50we could have drinks and that after work.
09:52I was kind of happy being single, happy going out with the girls.
09:55If it happened, it happened.
09:57But then I met David on Facebook.
10:10He would tell me, you know, how his day was getting on,
10:12what he done that day.
10:14Maybe he was in surgery some of the days,
10:16or he was, like, looking after the patients.
10:22He would send me pictures of bits and bobs around the hospital.
10:27So, he was a completely nice, chatty, warm person.
10:33So, told me that he lived up in Newton-Mearns,
10:35which is a lovely area just outside Glasgow.
10:38If you live in the Mearns, it's like you've kind of made it.
10:40You can tell it's obviously an affluent area.
10:42The houses are all, like, lovely, big, kind of detached houses.
10:47And you can tell it's all, like, nice cars and all that.
10:50So, this here was the car that he said he had.
10:55So, it was basically a BMW X5.
10:59They are new, about 130,000.
11:03When you see someone who has got nice things,
11:05who has got a nice job,
11:06any girl would be crazy to say that they would be put off by that.
11:09Looking back now, you're like, how did I not realise that?
11:12If you are this incredible guy, you know, good looking,
11:14the nice house, the nice car, why are you single?
11:18Back then, I was doing a, kind of, a health kick.
11:20And I says to him, I'm going to walk home from work.
11:21And at that point, he says, I'll give you a phone call.
11:24I thought, oh, that's nice.
11:25Are you single?
11:29Back then I was doing a kind of a health kick
11:31and I says to him, I'm going to walk home from work
11:33and at that point he says, I'll give you a phone call.
11:36I thought, oh, that's nice.
11:37Maybe this is going down the romantic route.
11:40Maybe this is a decent one.
11:42And that's how I started talking to David on the phone.
11:45He was very, very confident, really friendly.
11:49It's about a 45, 50-minute walk
11:52and we were on the phone the whole time.
11:55When you told him something, he would listen
11:58and be interested in what you're saying, basically.
12:02Which doesn't always happen.
12:03Never happens.
12:08One morning he messages me and says,
12:11I want to send you something.
12:16So I was like, okay, like, what?
12:19Wouldn't tell me.
12:19And he's like, please give me your address.
12:21I want to send you something.
12:22So I eventually gave him my address
12:23and was like, right, let's wait to see what gets sent to me.
12:30The first bouquet was the biggest.
12:33That was these gorgeous, like, orange roses and lilies.
12:38You were like, wow.
12:39Like, they would have cost hundreds.
12:42And then from that,
12:44the flowers then started to come a lot after that,
12:46probably every couple of weeks.
12:49It was the same florist who dropped them off every single time.
12:51It was a girl called Ashley.
12:53And she says that the family have been buying flowers from her shop for years
12:57and that David had come into the shop to pick the flowers, which he'd never done before.
13:05And she said, David's such a good guy.
13:07You've got a good one there.
13:08And I just thought, he's keen.
13:10He's keen.
13:11I just wanted to meet him.
13:16Did you think he was speaking to other girls?
13:19No, to be honest.
13:20It didn't even cross my mind because I thought,
13:21if you were talking to another girl, when are you talking to another girl?
13:23Because, you know, you're literally talking to me all the time.
13:31My sister was always a wee bit, kind of, watch, like, what you're doing.
13:36But I was just kind of like, didn't think anything of it.
13:38David had a way of talking that was different from the other guys that I had dated.
13:50And I just really liked it.
13:52And I really, really opened up to it.
13:59What was your dating history like up to that point?
14:02It was wacky.
14:05I went on a date and I wasn't even finished the first drink.
14:11And he's like, right, we can back to mine.
14:14And I was like, eh?
14:16No.
14:17And he was like, oh, well.
14:19And he got up and left.
14:21I would meet guys who would have one cocktail and fall off the bar still.
14:26I mean, I left a guy in the cinema once because he went like this to cuddle me.
14:32And I was like, oh, I'm going to the toilet.
14:34And left a guy in the cinema.
14:37I wasn't really for wasting time.
14:40So, if they were wasting my time on the day, I wasn't really interested.
14:44When I first saw David Goom's profile, he was so handsome.
14:53He had so much to say about himself.
14:56We'd speak on the phone every single day.
15:01So, it was a case of if I had looked at my phone on my break and work and there was no message from David, I would think there was something wrong.
15:09Both of us were ready to settle down.
15:13We had been in turbulent relationships before.
15:18He had a bad ex and she was a bit of a nightmare and my ex was very, very jealous, very controlling.
15:25Because I had been through such a bad relationship, I was clinging on to this one thing that could be really good.
15:33He told me he had a wee girl called Lily.
15:37He said, because my ex has done drugs in her past and everything else, I have full custody over.
15:46And he would send me videos of Lily on the trampoline.
15:51Look at me, auntie girl, look at me!
15:53He would send me pictures of her dressed up as a fairy.
15:58Because Lily had the same name as me and she had big blue eyes, he said, he thought of me every time he looked at her.
16:08So, we got quite deep quite quickly.
16:12The more you kind of talk to a person and you open up to a person, the more I just wanted to meet him really.
16:19I mean, yeah, it was really, really exciting, like getting a new friend request from someone that I didn't know.
16:35He looked successful, he was a doctor.
16:38But there was quite a long break then to the next set of messages.
16:44Life definitely did slow down.
16:47I had left lots of friends behind and I was going back to like small town vibes.
16:54So, I was trying to kind of get back into groups to do like dancing and stuff.
17:06Growing up, I loved performing, dancing and I just wanted to get that old part of my life back.
17:14I started a performance group with a group of girls and we were posting about it on Facebook.
17:23That was filling that void of not like doing performing things.
17:26We were constantly trying to find gigs and we were doing like really good.
17:31And then the next thing that I remember seeing from David Graham was this poster.
17:40He was saying, looking for entertainers, dancers for this charity ball that I'm trying to put on.
17:49So just read out exactly what it says.
17:51Okay.
17:52Cancer Research Charity Ball at the Hilton Grosvenor.
17:55Black tie, masquerade, tickets are £25.
17:58Champagne on arrival, performances, doctors in the bath.
18:03It sounds like a great night out and that's probably why I've been like, let's get involved in that.
18:07I had actually messaged him and said, oh, me and my friends could do this.
18:15Yeah, just let me know how much you want to be paid.
18:20Nothing, it's for charity.
18:22And then he said, well, I'll pay you Botox then.
18:25And I remember going into the group chat to the girl saying,
18:29gals, we're doing this gig for free but we're all getting Botox out of it.
18:32And everyone was quite happy.
18:38I remember him bringing up tickets and that if we wanted to either sell them or buy them
18:43or if we had like any family and friends that wanted to come and watch, let me know.
18:48So I shared the poster for the charity ball on my Facebook.
18:52As soon as I did this, I got a message from another girl from Kilmarnock
18:57basically asking me, how do you know this David Graham?
19:01I was like, well, I don't really know him but he's my grandad's doctor.
19:08She said, I've got a reason to believe he's not who he says he is.
19:12And she said, whatever you do, don't trust David Graham.
19:15It started off kind of friendly, nice chat.
19:26But then he got really quite intense very quickly.
19:30I would get a phone call every morning at 6am.
19:34Which was squarely, you know, I didn't start till 9am.
19:37And he would stay on the phone to me for hours while I got ready.
19:41And then it was the texting constantly through the day.
19:44I would want to go make my dinner and he would say, let me stay on the phone.
19:52And I'd be like, right, okay, I'm going to have to put you down.
19:55I'd be doing things and I'd come back and he'd still be on the phone.
19:59Did you question him?
20:01I did say, like, why? Like, you know, there's no need for you to stay on the phone with me.
20:06And he was just kind of like, oh, no, it's okay. I like kind of hearing what you're up to.
20:11And I'm thinking, if you're a doctor, I can't be on the phone.
20:15Like, you know, I'm like, surely this guy's away doing things that doctors do.
20:19It got to the point where he'd be saying, like, what are you doing tonight?
20:22And I would just be like, oh, I'm just sitting in.
20:23But I wasn't. I was actually coming out to the pub with the girls.
20:25He would get angry if I didn't answer the phone.
20:31And it would be like, then it would be the messages, like, where are you? Where are you?
20:33What are you doing?
20:35And I was just kind of like, no, that's not normal.
20:39The presents then started coming quite a lot.
20:44I got a bunch of flowers and Krispy Kreme donuts brought to the work by Ashley.
20:48Then I had a cheesecake and Tupperware.
20:51Then I remember one morning, he phones me up and he's like, where are you?
20:56And I was like, oh, I'm a bit hungover. I'm in my bed.
20:58And he's like, right, stay there.
21:00Then he was like, right, look out your window.
21:02And I looked out my window and there was a McDonald's and a Red Bull on my bonnet.
21:06I remember once David sent me a magazine and it says in the front, turn to page 10.
21:14Turn to page 10 and the bell word circled.
21:16And it'd be like, aye.
21:18Then the bomb would be like, turn to page 32.
21:21And then go to page 32.
21:24Love.
21:25And they'd be like, turn to page and it'd be like, he'd basically wrote out a story to me in the magazine.
21:32And then...
21:33Did he say, I love you?
21:34It was like, I love you. You mean everything to me.
21:37He spoke to me as if I was his girlfriend.
21:48He was on a night out and he was drunk and said, I think I'm falling in love with you.
21:54He said he loved you?
21:55He did.
21:57Yeah, he said it first.
22:00Would you call him your boyfriend?
22:02Yeah, I called him my boyfriend at one point.
22:04After he said he loved me.
22:08A couple of months in, he started getting really possessive.
22:11Who are you with?
22:12What time?
22:13All of this stuff.
22:15By this point, I'm in a really dark place.
22:19This relationship that I'm in is consuming me.
22:22One night, I remember, I was on the phone and I was like, I don't feel too good.
22:35And he asked a lot of medical questions and he did seem concerned.
22:39I must have fell asleep.
22:43I then woke up and he was still on the phone in the morning.
22:48He said I wanted to listen to you sleeping to make sure you were okay.
22:51But I had, I kind of had pins and needles on my hand.
22:56It was really tingly.
22:58And he said, listen, go to the hospital, get it checked.
23:01I've told them that you're coming in.
23:02So I went to the hospital and they were like, oh, we're expecting you.
23:15Didn't have to wait.
23:16I was just taking straight in.
23:18And I was sitting in the kind of the pod where it's got, you know, the curtain round you and you've got your bed.
23:22And I'm sat there and David messages me.
23:26You're in pod six.
23:27So I'm looking around and I look up and I was like, oh, I'm in pod six with the big number six behind me.
23:32I thought, this is it.
23:33I'm going to finally see him.
23:35But then he messaged me saying, a Dr Smith or something.
23:40We'll come and see you.
23:42Two minutes later, the doctor comes in.
23:44Hi, I'm Dr Smith.
23:45I'm here to assess you.
23:49So it turns out there was absolutely nothing wrong with my hand.
23:51I was absolutely fine.
23:56So I messaged David saying, why don't you pop down and see me?
23:59But he says at that point, he's like, listen, I'm too busy.
24:01I can't come down.
24:02So what are you thinking?
24:04I thought, if you're just up the stairs, why can you not come down the stairs?
24:07Like, I'm literally 30 seconds away from you, you know.
24:11So I did keep messaging saying, like, why aren't you coming down?
24:15Then he said he was going to surgery.
24:17So I was like, right, OK, that's fine.
24:19Do you think you were ignoring red flags because he had so many good qualities?
24:24Yeah, I definitely think so.
24:26I think it was one of those where you would ignore it because you think,
24:29do you know what, this man's a doctor, he's respected.
24:33Even though you were young, you are still thinking ahead of the future,
24:36thinking, OK, that's like the kind of guy you want.
24:37I always wanted to get married. I always wanted to be a quite wedding.
24:40I always wanted to get married. I always wanted to be a quite wedding.
24:54I wanted a house, I wanted a husband, I wanted kids.
24:58So I think I generally was looking to meet someone in Settledown.
25:00When I came across David, I remember him going into the detail of being a single dad.
25:03And it made you like him more. He had already bought a lovely house, had a nice car, had a decent job.
25:11So it was like, you just fit into that lifestyle.
25:12He came from a, kind of, kind of, wealthy family, and he said, I'll buy you such and such.
25:16We can do this when we meet up and we'll go here.
25:18Like, it was very much of, like, you know, like people like this.
25:20The family, like, I don't know what I mean.
25:21I don't know what I mean.
25:22But, I think, I'm a little bit more.
25:24So I'm a little bit more.
25:25I think I generally was looking to meet someone in Settledown.
25:29When I came across David, I remember him going into the detail of being a single dad.
25:34And it made you like him more.
25:35He had already bought a lovely house, had a nice car, had a decent job.
25:40It was very much of, this is going to be a dream come true, basically.
25:50I liked everything that I posted, commented in every picture.
25:54I can't remember how many pictures I had on Facebook,
25:55but there was pictures from maybe the years before or a couple of years before.
26:02And even always liked and commented things.
26:05Beautiful picture, you look beautiful, you look stunning.
26:08Love hearts.
26:10Anything you put, his name would be there.
26:14David liked your picture, David commented on your picture.
26:18If I had posted anything, he was always the first person to comment.
26:22I do remember, like, obviously because we hadn't met,
26:25I started to find it a bit strange
26:27because people who maybe didn't know you, like,
26:30or came across your Facebook or something,
26:31would just think, oh, she's in a relationship.
26:32To begin with, he was very nice, but maybe, like, a week or so went on,
26:44it was if he'd text you or if he'd phoned you,
26:46you had to answer the phone or message him back.
26:48David started to try and progress it into, like, a more of a sexual chat.
26:58He would maybe, like, say, look, your sexual things over the phone,
27:01and then he did really, like, he did start to want to have, like, sexual conversations.
27:05He would start asking for, like, pictures and things.
27:08He would send pictures.
27:10And, like, when I'd say no, um, it was as if it was, like,
27:18you knew he was kind of in the huff, and it was as if it was, like, a kind of guilt trip.
27:21Like, he sent one, so why would I not send a picture to him?
27:24As if it was me that was in the wrong for not wanting to.
27:29The way he went on about it as if it was, like, you felt like you kind of had to.
27:33I remember, like, just thinking, God, like,
27:35what if, like, anyone finds out I've sent him a picture,
27:37like, they know I've never met him in person, like,
27:39people are going to wonder, like,
27:41why are you sending someone pictures that you've never met, basically?
27:56So, after a few weeks of texting constantly, phoning constantly,
28:01we decided to meet, and that was at a shop mall called Silverburn.
28:09I got my friend to drive me, because I didn't drive.
28:13I was feeling so excited, but I was really, really nervous as well.
28:17I'm going to give him a big hug, I'm going to say this to him,
28:24I'm going to have a laugh with him about this.
28:26You're envisaging it.
28:28Big, handsome arms around your shoulders.
28:31Will we kiss? Will we not kiss?
28:33All of this stuff's going through your head,
28:35and the butterflies I got were just nuts,
28:39because you're in love with this guy, and you're so excited to see him.
28:42While I'm waiting, I'm looking left, I'm looking right,
28:50every person walks past, I'm thinking,
28:52oh, that might be him, that might be him.
28:57He's saying that he's on his way, he's in the centre,
29:00he's just parking the car, he'll be a couple of minutes,
29:04and then it just goes blank.
29:05He doesn't turn up.
29:12Did he get nervous?
29:13Did he get cold feet?
29:15And, yeah, did he walk past me and not like the look of me
29:19rather than my pictures?
29:23And then the message saying,
29:25I did walk past you, you had a pink dress on,
29:30but you didn't tell me you were bringing a friend.
29:32I'm not going to meet you if your friend's there.
29:36I don't like people knowing that I'm dating girls off the internet.
29:41I was crying by this point.
29:43I was thinking it was all my fault.
29:46And when you think back on it,
29:48why do you think you let it go this far?
29:50Because he kept drilling me back in.
29:53He told me he loved me, I was invested,
29:55so I just kept going back and falling for it time and time again.
29:59He suggested coffee.
30:03It was maybe like an hour before.
30:06He had messages saying,
30:07oh, I can't meet tonight, something's come up.
30:12So we arranged to meet again,
30:14and it was the same again.
30:17There was no, like, message back,
30:19there was no phone call,
30:20there was no response back from him at all.
30:21It was a constant excuse every single time.
30:24I'm working late.
30:25I can't come, someone's had a heart attack.
30:27Lily was too unwell.
30:28Something happened at work.
30:29Every single time you think you're so close to meeting him,
30:32and then it just doesn't happen.
30:39Did you ever think maybe he's just nervous to meet me?
30:42No, because I think he sounded
30:43and acted quite confident on the phone.
30:47After he cancelled on me three or four times,
30:49he messaged me again
30:50and said that he was going to see Calvin Harris.
30:52I wasn't going to the concert,
31:05but that night I was driving close by
31:08and I says, listen, I can run you home.
31:11And he was like, that would be great.
31:12This night was the night I thought, right,
31:15I'm going to finally meet David.
31:20So he's like, OK, what we'll do is we'll meet at the side entrance.
31:23So I'd just parked over the road
31:25and we were meant to meet at these gates.
31:28I mean, this place, this was mobbed.
31:29There was just people swamped all over the place here.
31:32And then just as I went through the gates here,
31:34there was a girl standing shouting, David.
31:36First, I didn't recognise, I didn't even think anything of it.
31:38And then when I approached her,
31:40I realised then that it was Ashley, the florist.
31:44She said she had been at the concert,
31:46she'd bumped into David
31:47and he'd just basically ran off to the port-a-loos.
31:51I thought, right, perfect, your friend's here,
31:53she's shouting on you, you are here.
31:54You know, there's not going to be any excuses that you could give me.
31:57So she was like kind of constantly calling, calling, calling David.
32:00She did say to me a few times, you try him.
32:03So I gave him a few rings
32:04and again, it just kind of kept ringing out.
32:07So probably after about an hour, I said, listen,
32:10I'm getting a wee bit fed up.
32:11You know, like, it's an hour past,
32:12it's kind of late at night now
32:13and I said to her, listen, I'm just going to get up home.
32:18I basically offered to drop Ashley home.
32:21So she was like, would you mind?
32:22And I was like, no, not at all.
32:23I've met you a good few times.
32:25You know, you're the florist, come on in.
32:28So I dropped Ashley
32:29and I tried to phone David again
32:31and he picked up and basically was like, I'm so sorry.
32:35Bumped into friends, ended up going away with them.
32:39I think I was just kind of like,
32:40poor show, like, this was your time
32:42to kind of prove yourself.
32:44Don't give me that excuse that you've met friends
32:46and you've wandered away
32:47and you didn't have your phone
32:48because you have your phone on you all the time
32:50because you phone me all the time.
32:51But the one time where you're meant to meet up with me,
32:54you don't hear your phone ringing, you know.
32:56So I think I was a bit like, come on,
32:57that's not adding up.
32:59What did you say to him then?
33:07Every week you're just cancelling dates.
33:10You're wasting my time.
33:12I deleted them off Facebook.
33:15A week or so passed
33:16and the messages start again.
33:18I'm really sorry, couldn't meet up.
33:19But I had just found out
33:23my daughter's actually got terminal cancer.
33:28He was crying on the phone
33:29about how his life was his wee girl.
33:34He did send a picture of a teddy
33:36in a hospital ward.
33:38I remember just thinking,
33:39this is, like, terrible.
33:40Like, how can that happen to someone?
33:43And then I just thought,
33:44oh, God, I feel so bad, like,
33:45just saying to this guy,
33:46well, I'm not meeting you anymore.
33:47But your poor daughter's basically dying of cancer.
33:52He was very much believable.
33:54You think to yourself,
33:55like, no one in the right mind
33:56would make up anything like that.
33:58It was a very believable story.
33:59After the Facebook message,
34:08I felt like I need to find out
34:09who David Graham is.
34:13The charity ball is in four or five weeks.
34:17So I phoned the hotel,
34:18which was the Hilton in Glasgow,
34:20and I just said,
34:21I might be coming to this event.
34:23It's just to double-check times.
34:24And they were like,
34:25yeah, let me go and check.
34:26And it came back
34:29that there actually wasn't a booking.
34:31And I did say to her,
34:32I was like, nothing under David Graham,
34:33even under, like, another date.
34:35And she was like,
34:35as far as I can see in the diary,
34:36there's nothing.
34:37So at that point,
34:39I actually do remember, like,
34:40the adrenaline, like, pumping.
34:42And I remember thinking,
34:44oh, my God, that's not even happening.
34:46Like, that's not even a thing.
34:48Is this, like, a kidnap attempt?
34:50Or is it money?
34:51Like, what was this going to turn out to be?
34:53What else is this person lying about?
34:56I went online,
34:59started looking up the name David Graham
35:01on, like, doctor's registers.
35:04And David Graham did come up.
35:07But this guy had qualified in, like, the 1950s.
35:12He would be, like, 80 or 90.
35:14So there's no chance
35:15that could be who we were talking to.
35:17So who the hell were we talking to?
35:19Was it possible in your mind at this time
35:28that he wasn't a doctor?
35:30I don't think I ever questioned his occupation
35:32because of the pictures he was sending me,
35:34because of, like, that,
35:36the words he was using.
35:37But I did start thinking, like,
35:40are you David?
35:43I needed to find out who he was.
35:45And then he gave us the opportunity.
35:49On my birthday,
35:51David sent me a picture of my front door
35:53and says,
35:54oh, I was going to drop off your birthday present.
35:57He says,
35:58you didn't want to leave it
35:58in case someone took it,
36:00but I'll drop it off later to you.
36:01I told him that I wasn't going to be in that night.
36:04So I said,
36:04why don't you drop off at my mum's house
36:05because she's got a porch?
36:07I said,
36:08my mum's not in.
36:11On that night,
36:12I phoned my mum
36:13and told her
36:14to basically turn off
36:16all the lights of the house
36:17because I wanted it to look like no one was in.
36:19So basically,
36:20the house was like this,
36:21just, like, in darkness.
36:22And I said to her,
36:24David's going to come
36:25with a birthday present for me
36:26and he's going to wear a BMW X5.
36:29So that was the car
36:30that basically I'd told my mum
36:32was about to approach.
36:35Then she's like,
36:43wait, I see car lights coming.
36:45So I was like,
36:46OK, this could be it.
36:47I said, right,
36:48get down,
36:48make sure I can't see you.
36:50She then says
36:51she's seen the car pulling up,
36:53but instead of a BMW X5,
36:56it was a red Vauxhall Corsa.
37:00I'm obviously on the phone
37:00to be like,
37:01that can't be him.
37:02That must be someone else.
37:04But she said,
37:05if someone was getting out of that car,
37:07I kept saying to her,
37:08do not let him see you.
37:17My mum couldn't see who it was,
37:20but she was able to get
37:21the car registration
37:22whilst the car was driving off.
37:27Then I phoned David
37:29and I was like,
37:30how'd you go on?
37:30And he was like,
37:30I've just dropped the gift off
37:31at your mum's house.
37:33So you checked?
37:33So I checked, yeah.
37:35So he said he was actually here?
37:36Yep.
37:36He says,
37:37I've just physically dropped this off
37:38at your mum's house.
37:39What are you thinking?
37:41At that point,
37:42I was like,
37:42should I say
37:43what my mum had seen?
37:45But I thought,
37:46no,
37:46I'm going to leave it.
37:47Didn't want to kind of
37:48raise any suspicions.
37:51We've found
37:52the registration.
37:54Now we just need to know
37:55who does it belong to.
38:02Any time I would try
38:03and question him,
38:04he would say,
38:04I'm sick of this, Lily.
38:05Stop questioning me.
38:08I've got enough
38:09in my life to deal with.
38:11Don't text me back.
38:12I'll text you when I'm free.
38:14He went on holiday
38:16with a group of his mates.
38:17While he was away,
38:20there was other girls
38:22posting on his Facebook.
38:25And these beautiful
38:26blonde girls would write,
38:27Hi, David.
38:28Can I come see you?
38:31First, I was raging.
38:33But then I would go
38:33onto the girl's Facebook
38:35and she would have,
38:36like, 15 friends.
38:38And I was like,
38:40he's made up that Facebook
38:41to make me jealous.
38:43Why?
38:44Why?
38:45What do you get out of it?
38:47What is the in-game
38:47for you?
38:55After he told me
38:56the wee girl had terminal cancer,
38:58we were talking again.
39:00And at that time,
39:01it was more just
39:01phone calls back and forth
39:02because he had so much going on.
39:05Were you supporting him?
39:07No, he said she died.
39:08What?
39:09Uh-huh.
39:10So the girl died?
39:11The daughter died?
39:13So you're on phone or...?
39:15I think it was in text message.
39:19I think I just kind of clicked
39:20at that point.
39:24I just thought you're texting
39:25someone that you've never met
39:26and your daughter's just died.
39:28Like, something just rang alarm bells.
39:29I just remember messaging him
39:32and saying, like,
39:33you're a compulsive liar.
39:34I don't see the point in doing this.
39:36Why you would lie about your child?
39:37Why you would lie about a kid dying?
39:39I'm not going to speak to you anymore.
39:44He then became threatening,
39:47saying, just remember,
39:48I've got your picture.
39:49You wouldn't want to know
39:50where that would go.
39:51Either you speak to me
39:52or you're not going to like
39:54what's going to happen, basically.
39:56That's when I kind of started to
39:58think to myself, like,
39:59what's going on here?
40:01I don't think he is who he said he is.
40:03I don't think he's real.
40:05Who is this person?
40:06I just couldn't get my head around it
40:14because it didn't make sense
40:15that this person could be fake
40:17because he knew a lot
40:19about my granddad being in hospital,
40:20what ward he was in,
40:22and he would take photos
40:23of the actual ward as well.
40:27I started looking deeper
40:28into David Graham's Facebook.
40:31So I would message different women
40:33and ask them if they knew David Graham.
40:36I started talking to two girls
40:40that have also been speaking
40:42to David Graham.
40:44They were also thinking
40:45this guy could potentially
40:47not be a real person.
40:49We thought we were going to need
40:50to all band together here.
40:52So the three of us
40:53started this Facebook group chat
40:56called 007.
41:03Who worked out the hostel
41:05was the connection
41:06between everything.
41:10All I kept thinking was
41:12this person says he works
41:13on the stroke ward
41:14that my granddad's in.
41:17It is a very vulnerable ward.
41:20I mean, if you really want
41:21to take advantage of people,
41:22like, that would be
41:23the best ward to do it in.
41:25Do it scare you?
41:26Yeah.
41:28In my head, I'm thinking
41:29Michael Myers is walking,
41:31is running around
41:32across the hospital.
41:36So I phoned the hospital,
41:38shall we?
41:41I did just specifically ask,
41:42like, do you have a doctor,
41:44David Graham,
41:44working on the ward?
41:45And they were like,
41:46no, I don't think so.
41:48And I said,
41:48is my granddad's doctor
41:50called David Graham?
41:51And they were like,
41:52no.
41:53And I think they just thought
41:54I was some sort of angry,
41:56like, relative.
41:58I said, listen,
41:59I said, you've got
41:59some absolute psycho
42:01pretending they're a doctor
42:02in your ward.
42:03And I was shut down,
42:06like, almost instantly.
42:09And I think I just remember
42:10going a wee bit ballistic,
42:11thinking,
42:12what's this person
42:13got access to?
42:15And who the fuck
42:16is David Graham?
42:20This is it.
42:22We know the location,
42:24we know the car,
42:25we know the Reggie.
42:26We're going to find out
42:26who the hell this is.
42:28He said,
42:28come to my house
42:29and we will speak.
42:31I am gone.
42:32I am all guns blazing
42:33at this point.
42:34I, like,
42:35I remember looking at it
42:36and, like,
42:37being in such disbelief
42:38because I'm like,
42:39there's no way,
42:40like, that's who
42:40they're talking about.
42:42I got bombarded.
42:44I had so many missed calls
42:45and my voicemail was full.
42:47Everything just came
42:48rushing towards me.
42:49It was like a wall of heat.
42:50And I think at that point
42:52my mum and my sister
42:52must have been like,
42:53shut up.
42:54This person
42:55who's of a good profession
42:56is doing this.
42:59Why?
42:59Why are you doing it?
43:00Why?
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