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