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Murder in Shetland: Trial by Jury - Season 1 Episode 2
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00:13The point of a trial is that the Crown lay before a jury an allegation. And that allegation,
00:21in this case, is murder.
00:35In the summer of 23, Claire met Aaron Pearson, but we never met him.
00:49Claire didn't tell me that she was seeing this guy until she was already in Scotland.
00:57It all happened so quick and I thought everything was fine.
01:01Did she tell you about any injuries or anything?
01:04Nothing at all. Otherwise, maybe this wouldn't have happened.
01:08My job is to prove to the jury Aaron Pearson killed Claire Levesque.
01:13Mr Levesque, we have some records which suggest there was a telephone call with Aaron Pearson that day.
01:18Don't remember it.
01:20There is no onus on an accused person to disprove the case.
01:26I've got no more questions, thank you.
01:28The Crown have to prove the case.
01:31This is just a horror story from the beginning.
01:35I came here, I left everything behind for you. Why would you hit me?
01:39You're lucky that you can see how you f***ing did it, okay?
01:42Him trying to walk out of the courtroom was just unbelievable.
01:46The body map shows severe and significant injuries.
01:50Could any of these injuries have been self-inflicted?
01:54Could they in principle have been self-inflicted? Yes.
01:59All that I'm endeavouring to do is ask questions of which may raise doubt in the minds of the jury.
02:06Mr Pearson is to give evidence.
02:09As jurors, you must not be swayed by any emotional consideration which you might have.
02:14Every accused is presumed innocent until proved guilty.
02:17The Crown must establish guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
02:22The Crown opt tiens to lie to28 persons.
02:33The Queen of the Pearl
02:33Monticello
02:33Life is no Jordan.
02:33All rights reserved.
02:49I wanted to stop.
02:49It's not valid.
02:50The Nurse is choice,
02:53we had flown into the Shetland Islands then we drove up to sadness it was important so that we
03:01could see the things she loved and and the places that she had sent pictures of
03:10so we could feel like a connection to her there
03:16I think I needed to go there most of all to see and where she lived and what she was
03:24doing there
03:27you know you picture like somewhere remote but like this is literally in the middle of nowhere
03:35it just makes me feel sick to my stomach
03:43walking up to the house with Clint it felt heavy I looked in there and I could see her where
03:52she
03:52thought it hurt
04:15so
04:23so
04:24I don't know.
04:57Well good morning everyone. You'll remember that on Friday the advocate
05:00deputy closed the Crown case. Mr Patterson good morning.
05:05There was a body of evidence led by the Crown and thereafter Mr Pearson has the opportunity
05:12to either give evidence or not give evidence. We had heard that there was a chance that the
05:20accused might take the stand. Of course you aren't innocent until you're proven guilty.
05:26He's got every right to not take the stand. My lord thank you good morning. Mr Pearson
05:31is to give evidence my lord. Thank you very much would you please come forward Mr Pearson.
05:43I guess he literally thinks he can win over the jury. He has to provide an explanation
05:50as to how Claire Levesque came to sustain 26 stab wounds. There are pros and there are cons.
05:57The pros are the accused person may well be believed by the jury and the result of that
06:02would be an acquittal. The cons are of course that the accused person is then a witness.
06:08they'll be asked questions which could be awkward for them and the case will be put to them.
06:18I want to hear what he has to say because I don't think any of it's going to make sense.
06:23Mr Pearson. Yes. Do you accept that you were ever abusive towards Claire?
06:34Mr Pearson. Yes and no. There were times where we drank just far too much and we were abusive to
06:41one another. We got along great when we were sober. Everything was really good. I did love her. I did.
06:49Still do. Did you ever threaten that you would kill her? No.
06:57This is a challenging case because of the evidence of course. There was a 999 call that was made.
07:03There was an admission by Mr Pearson. But the issue that was pertinent in relation to the whole case is
07:13what happened before the 999 call was made. That is the issue in the trial.
07:21Mr Pearson I'm going to move on and ask you about the day that Claire Levesque died.
07:29We've seen some CCTV of the two of you in your car driving to various places.
07:38Yes. Now there was a bottle of liquor. You bought that and you took it back to the shed. Correct?
07:47Yes.
07:49So as the afternoon progressed, what happened?
07:56Mr Pearson. She was in the shed with me and I could tell by the tone in her voice that
07:59she was
08:00already really drunk. Did you say anything to her?
08:04Mr Pearson. I remember requesting that she go to bed then she said the words fuck you to me.
08:11What happened the next time you saw Claire?
08:14Mr Pearson. I was in the shed and she had come through the door furious with me,
08:19physically swinging at me. I believe I had just finished speaking with her father about sending
08:25her back. I believe I offered him some money. I told him that I had already booked the flights.
08:31She was really, really, really upset with me. She had heard me speaking to him.
08:38Mr Pearson. So when she came in, what happened next?
08:43Mr Pearson. She literally punched my top plate denture right out of my mouth.
08:48Mr Pearson. What happened then?
08:50Mr Pearson. She went over to pee in that garbage can that I used earlier to bail the water out
08:58of the tub.
09:01Mr Pearson. She was really drunk and I was telling her everything she wanted to hear because she had
09:06obviously heard me speaking with her dad. She was furious.
09:12Aaron claims that Claire overhears a conversation between Aaron and her dad.
09:23And in that conversation, it said that Aaron is going to take Claire back home to Canada. He's going
09:31to go with her because she can't live here anymore because of the dreadful alcoholic that he claims
09:36that she is. What happened then? Next thing I knew, I heard her kind of cough and kind of choke
09:45and then
09:46fall but with a bottle, a grey bottle of grey fluid to her mouth. She appeared to have drunk it.
09:53She had also fallen over on the floor and she was rolling around in her own urine.
09:59There was a struggle on the ground. She kind of got me in the stomach with her elbow,
10:04at which point she did a really, really epic faceplant on the arm of the couch.
10:10There's an old black-handled knife that basically had lived in the garage all the time.
10:16She grabbed the knife and then, and then she kind of did like a 180,
10:22put the knife in her right hand and landed in the water.
10:32Give me one second, please.
10:37My opinion on his defense during this trial is it's a farce.
10:43It's just absolute ridiculousness.
10:46She then looked at me,
10:49looked at the knife, and stuck it in her stomach.
11:10She then looked at me, looked at the knife, and stuck it in her stomach.
11:19She started screaming and she repeated to puncture herself here, I believe, like this.
11:29How many times did she stab herself when she was in the hot tub?
11:32Well, I would say four or five.
11:36Do you have any recollection of being in the hot tub with Claire?
11:40No.
11:41Did you take the phone from your mother and speak to the police?
11:45There's no recollection of that whatsoever.
11:48No, I don't.
11:49Do you have any recollection of saying horrible things and nasty, unpleasant things to police officers?
11:55No. No, I don't.
11:56No, I don't.
11:59I remember being restrained.
12:04I remember bits and pieces of being in the hospital.
12:07I do not remember speaking in the 999 call.
12:15I don't know what happened.
12:21Mr Pearson, I don't know what questions.
12:29His evidence was quite simple, actually.
12:31And I suppose to put it, to still it down, that was Claire Levesque drinking too much,
12:37and then confronting him, and then causing herself injuries.
12:41And thereafter, his recollection of events was very limited.
12:46Now, Advocate Deputy, I expect you have questions for the witness.
12:54Good afternoon, Mr Pearson.
12:57Good afternoon.
12:59In cross-examining Aaron Pearson, I want to show the inconsistencies in his evidence.
13:06From the first statement that he made to his mother that he'd hurt Claire,
13:09to the position he adopted at police interview that he couldn't remember,
13:13because he was in shock.
13:15Now, we've heard evidence during this trial that on the 11th of February, Claire Levesque died,
13:23and her cause of death was stab wounds of the neck and chest, wasn't it?
13:30Oh, yes, ma'am.
13:33And you inflicted those stab wounds, didn't you, Mr Pearson?
13:37Not that I recall, ma'am.
13:39And she tried to defend herself when you were assaulting her, didn't she?
13:45Once again, ma'am, I do not remember.
13:47Do you remember the photographs, Mr Pearson?
13:51Ma'am, I do remember the photographs, but I don't remember doing anything like that.
13:55And that wasn't the first time you had hurt Claire, was it?
14:00The Crown case is not that Aaron Pearson suddenly, out of the blue, decided to assault Claire Levesque
14:07on the 11th of February of 2024.
14:10The Crown case is that what happened is, in effect, the culmination of a number of months
14:15of domestically abusive behaviour.
14:19We heard the recording that was recorded on the 12th of December of 2023.
14:24Claire Levesque says to you, you beat the shit out of me on my 24th birthday.
14:29I see that, yes.
14:31And you tell her that was the second time?
14:34That was the second time we had a significant argument.
14:37No, so you don't deny beating her up, you accept that you beat her up on the 24th of November,
14:41is that right?
14:42I reciprocated, yes.
14:44So by reciprocated, do you mean you hit her?
14:46After being punched in the head several times, yes, ma'am.
14:49Mr Pearson.
14:50Ma'am, this is...
14:50Mr Pearson.
14:51Okay, so my apologies, my apologies.
14:53The question was, did you hit her?
14:55Yes.
14:56Yes, I did.
15:05She's just ear to ear grinning.
15:08I love this one at the beach, she was eating like a pile of sand and
15:13then later she's spitting it out.
15:19Claire was a very prominent part of my life growing up and through later years of her life.
15:27We spent our whole childhood together.
15:39In late November, I received some messages from Claire
15:45that kind of changed the story about the safety of where she was.
15:50She said that she had been abused by Erin Pearson.
15:56Upon hearing that, I grew very worried and very concerned about her well-being.
16:02I was telling her like, if it happens once, it's going to happen again.
16:05You got to get out of this situation.
16:06You got to get out of here.
16:08I started implementing a plan to come pick her up,
16:12to get Claire home and get her out of this relationship safely.
16:17But the next day, she said that everything was fine, that everything was okay and that everything was worked out.
16:24But in my gut though, I just knew something wasn't right.
16:30I was going to come pick her up.
16:34If I would have just came a little bit sooner.
16:39I miss her a lot.
16:51You told your mum on the 11th of February of 2024 that you had hurt Claire, didn't you?
16:58According to my mum, yes.
17:02And that was after you had returned to the house, after driving your car into the sea, wasn't it?
17:09According to my mum, yes.
17:14The Crown case is that after Erin Pearson had either killed Claire Levesque or injured her so badly that he
17:22thought that he had killed her,
17:23but he drove his car into the sea at a point very close by to the house in Sanis.
17:36Aaron had already got quite a reputation for his fast driving across the island.
17:49He had a very fancy silver Porsche.
17:52He drove it everywhere, he set up a YouTube channel.
18:01And Claire, you would buy into that, wouldn't you?
18:06This is a wealthy man, he's got a Porsche.
18:10And I also heard that the reason he had the Porsche was that he was buying and selling drugs on
18:18that island.
18:19But nothing was ever proven.
18:25How long would it take you to drive from the house to the point where we saw the tire tracks
18:32going off onto the grass and then into the sea?
18:35In a hypothetical scenario, because once again, I can't remember doing it, but in a hypothetical scenario, it could be
18:42seconds to a minute, maybe.
18:57Now, I don't know why Erin Pearson drove his car into the sea.
19:01That's for him to explain.
19:03But it adds to our timeline.
19:05Because having visited the island, I know that that beach is only a very short drive from the house.
19:15So if you drove into the sea, swam to the shore, and then walked back, you could probably do all
19:22of that in about 15 minutes, maybe 10 minutes, would that be fair to say?
19:26It would be fair to say that.
19:31He is seen walking back from the beach area at about quarter to five in the evening.
19:39I just thought that it was weird that he was just walking back to the house.
19:46That, to me, was extremely weird.
19:52Again, that's a key marker in the timeline, because it's shortly after that that we have the 999 call made
19:59by Janet Pearson.
20:02Well, she's bleeding and dying in a hot tub.
20:08Why did you drive your car into the sea?
20:12Again, I can't remember doing that.
20:14So did you do that after you had stabbed Claire Levesque multiple times, Mr Pearson?
20:19I did not stab Claire multiple times, to my knowledge.
20:22And you inflicted superficial wounds to your neck.
20:28According to the photograph and my mum.
20:31You told the 999 operator that you killed her because she drank too much and acted like an idiot, and
20:40she'd pissed you off.
20:41Yeah, that was me.
20:44But once again, I can't remember saying it.
20:46Well, the question isn't about what you remember, Mr Pearson.
20:49I'm just making myself clear.
20:50I didn't want you to twist my words.
20:52You assaulted her by stabbing her 26 times, Mr Pearson.
20:59How many times do I need to repeat myself now?
21:05It was such a violent assault that it left a piece of the knife embedded in her skull, and you
21:10did that, didn't you?
21:12That's what the evidence is saying, I suppose.
21:16It was just the constant, I don't know.
21:19I don't know, ma'am.
21:20Like, I don't know.
21:21It was like, why did you even take the stand?
21:35So Crown Production 87 is the transcript of the interview that was conducted on the 13th of February of 2024
21:43at Lowell Police Office.
21:45And at the top of page three, the police officer says, OK, you know, she's obviously passed away.
21:51And you say, yeah, I've been hearing it in here.
21:54Yeah, one of the officers told me in there, yeah.
21:58So are you saying that it wasn't until you were interviewed by police on the 13th of February that you
22:03knew that Claire had died?
22:05That's correct.
22:07You took a video of yourself sitting in the hot tub with Claire in the hot tub, didn't you?
22:12I highly doubt that.
22:32Aaron Pearson says he can't remember what happened after he said Claire had stabbed herself.
22:39But there was a video that he had recorded himself.
22:44And I want to use that to again point out an inconsistency in his account.
22:51He was in the hot tub with Claire still when the police showed up.
22:59My lord, I wish to play that particular piece of video just 15 seconds.
23:04And if you can listen carefully to it as well, Mr. Pearson.
23:07Sure, OK.
23:14Come on in.
23:16Fucking dude.
23:19Fuck you, you fucking pig.
23:26Now that's your voice, isn't it, Mr. Pearson?
23:28It is, ma'am.
23:28Yeah.
23:29We see a hand there, Mr. Pearson.
23:32And that's Claire Levesque in the hot tub with you.
23:35I'm not sure.
23:37I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't see.
23:39So you're in the hot tub.
23:40I can't confirm because, like I said, I don't.
23:45I don't know.
23:45Mr. Pearson, I can show the footage that shows her face.
23:48I'm loathe to do that, my lord.
23:49No, please don't.
23:50Please don't.
23:50I can't.
23:53If you're required to do it, advocate, deputy, then you proceed as you see fit.
23:57Thank you, ma'am.
23:57If we can, again, I warn those who are in the court.
23:59Oh, God.
23:59No, please don't show that.
24:01This will show the face of the deceased very briefly.
24:05I'm conscious that these kinds of images are very distressing.
24:10And while it's something that I don't choose to do lightly, if it's an important piece of
24:15evidence, I will have to show that piece of evidence.
24:21I'm not looking at it.
24:41There is an audible intake of breath when we're showing Claire in the hot tub.
24:48The jury have their head in their hands.
24:52Some of them are crying.
24:55Can we just stop that there?
24:59I can only imagine how tough it is for the officers.
25:05Somebody is so, so severely injured and somebody's just confessed to actually killing them on the
25:12phone while they're actively driving to this call.
25:20We obviously saw it just there when we were at the house, but you just don't think about it at
25:25the time.
25:27The only time I really thought about things was when I saw a picture of Claire in the local press.
25:34And it was just a shock because you're just seeing a young lass, like a pretty young lass, and that's
25:39not the person that I saw in the garage.
25:47Now, we saw the face of Claire Levesque in that video, Mr. Pearson.
25:53Okay.
25:54You took that video, didn't you?
25:57I'm assuming so.
25:59And yet you wish to maintain that you did not know that Claire was dead when the police interviewed you
26:04two days later.
26:07I maintain that, ma'am.
26:09You were angry, you were shouting and swearing at the police when Claire was lying dead in that hot tub,
26:16weren't you, Mr. Pearson?
26:18Yes, in that video, yeah.
26:20You murdered Claire Levesque, didn't you?
26:22As far as I remember, no, ma'am.
26:25No further questions.
26:26Thank you, my lord.
26:36Thank you, my lord.
26:57The next phase of the trial in which counsel will be addressing you directly from the lectern, please feel free
27:01to continue to take whatever notes you think will assist you in your deliberations.
27:09The jury has a lot to consider.
27:12I have to be able to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Aaron Pearson not only killed Claire Levesque, but
27:18that he murdered her.
27:21And that's a slightly different test.
27:24I now invite the advocate deputy to address you for the Crown.
27:27Advocate deputy.
27:28Thank you, Mr. Pearson.
27:31Thank you, my lord.
27:33Good morning, members of the jury.
27:36You're going to kill me.
27:38That is what Claire Levesque said to the accused, Aaron Pearson, on the 12th of December of 2023.
27:48Just two short months later, Aaron Pearson said to a 999 call operator,
28:05He went on to describe how he had definitely killed her to make sure I drowned her after I stabbed
28:14her several times and beat her the fuck up really badly.
28:24Obviously, what was said in that 999 call was a very significant piece of evidence in the trial.
28:32There's no getting away from that.
28:34Now, of course, Mr. Pearson explained that he couldn't recollect that 999 call.
28:40That was his position he adopted.
28:42This is a very tragic set of events.
28:48But what you can't do, members of the jury, is to bring emotions into your decision making.
28:55In Scotland, the level or standard of proof is proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
29:03And what I say to almost every jury that I speak to is this.
29:08If you were to pause or hesitate in relation to an allegation, that pause, that hesitation, our law says is
29:21a reasonable doubt.
29:23Your duty is then to acquit.
29:29When Claire says to Aaron Pearson, you beat the shit out of me on my 24th birthday, his response was,
29:36not a denial.
29:37No, what he said was, that was the second time.
29:41He also appears to blame Claire for him hitting her.
29:45Does that sound familiar?
29:47Because on the evidence we heard yesterday and today, Aaron Pearson appears to blame Claire Levesque for inflicting the stab
29:55wounds on herself.
29:58The suggestion made by the Crown to Mr. Pearson was that his testimony was fabricated and not true.
30:05But I suppose my function is to look at the evidence and try and say, well, these are the aspects
30:11which support him.
30:15I'm asking you to bring your common sense to this.
30:17If he's just going to come up with a fabricated, total nonsense of a story.
30:24Why not just say she did everything to herself?
30:26Because he's not said that.
30:29He said he's got no memory.
30:31He said he saw inflicting wounds to herself.
30:34There being blood and then no memory.
30:38It may be members of the jury come to the view that perhaps she had had too much to drink.
30:45Perhaps she was drunk.
30:51The pathologist told you it's entirely unrealistic to suggest Claire Levesque inflicted those stab wounds on herself.
31:00It didn't seem to suggest that they couldn't have happened.
31:04And it may be members of the jury that you're left thinking, well, really, where were we are?
31:08Where are we with that evidence?
31:12This is what his whole life is riding on.
31:15Suicide.
31:16Claire killing herself and doing this to herself.
31:19I thought it was a joke.
31:21The evidence tells you, members of the jury, Aaron Pearson murdered Claire Levesque.
31:28If he's going to lie, you know, you might think it would be a big lie.
31:34But if he's telling the truth, members of the jury, you ought to acquit him.
31:47So, members of the jury, you've now heard all the evidence in this case.
31:51For the Crown to prove the crime of murder, you would have to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the
31:56accused, Aaron Pearson, killed Claire Levesque on 11th of February 2024.
32:03The starting point of the Crown case is what the Advocate Deputy characterised as the admission evidence featuring in the
32:09999 call, which the Advocate Deputy described as a remarkably accurate account of events.
32:15The Advocate Deputy also referred you to the hot tub video and to further comments made by the accused to
32:20police witnesses.
32:22The Advocate Deputy submitted that corroboration for this evidence could be and was located in the evidence of Dr Ainsworth
32:29on the sites and number of injuries, the force required to inflict them, and the issue of self-infliction.
32:36Mr Paterson advanced the following submissions.
32:39Dr Ainsworth's testimony did not go to that point of suggesting that self-infliction was utterly impossible or could not
32:47have happened.
32:48And you may be left wondering, Mr Paterson observed, where Dr Ainsworth's opinion takes you as a jury.
32:55When you look at the whole evidence and the support for Mr Pearson's account, in particular in the messages, you
33:02may come to the view that the Crown has failed to prove that Mr Pearson is guilty of murder.
33:10You are the judges of the facts, and you decide what's been proved and what hasn't.
33:15It's all a matter for you.
33:25Whenever a jury goes out to consider their verdict, I can't second guess what that verdict will be.
33:30And it is very nerve-wracking.
33:36I'm wondering, have the Crown done enough here?
33:41Some juries can be quick, some can be slow.
33:45Some can take five minutes, some can take five hours or five days.
33:49You don't know what's going on in the jury deliberation room.
33:52What are the arguments other people are making?
33:54Did something stick out to them that didn't stick out to me?
34:01Mr Pearson has explained his position, so it's over to the jury to decide whether or not the Crown have
34:08proved the case beyond a reasonable doubt, which is a very high standard.
34:11A very high standard.
34:12In the High Court of Justiciary, in Court No. 1, this is a verdict.
34:24Of the seven original charges, only two remain.
34:28Charge 2 is a charge of domestic abuse over a prolonged period of time.
34:33And charge number four, of course, murder.
34:47I hope that having done my job properly, I've given them sufficient evidence that they can rely on.
34:53But the jury verdict is a jury verdict.
35:09Good afternoon, thank you.
35:18Members of the jury, will your spokesperson please stand up?
35:26Have you reached your verdict?
35:28Yes.
35:29What is your verdict in respect of Aaron Bylock Pearson on charge two on the indictment?
35:35Guilty.
35:36Is that a unanimous or a majority decision?
35:39Unanimous.
35:40What is your verdict in respect of Aaron Bylock Pearson on charge four on the indictment?
35:45Guilty.
35:45Guilty.
35:46Is that a unanimous or a majority decision?
35:49Unanimous.
35:54Members of the jury, thank you for your attention.
36:01I had no doubt in my mind there was going to be anybody on his side.
36:08Of course he did it.
36:09There is no defense.
36:12Aaron Bylock Pearson, you have today on the unanimous verdict of the jury been convicted of a crime of exceptional
36:19depravity,
36:20namely the murder of Miss Clare Levesque.
36:22Your own evidence was, in my view, an exercise from start to finish in victim blaming.
36:27This malicious, vindictive and wholly fabricated account suggests certainly to me
36:32that you have sought to continue to humiliate your victim after her death,
36:36even in this courtroom in the presence of her grieving family.
36:50You stole my little girl, my best friend, my life.
36:56Okay, there's Clare going home.
36:58I will not get to hug my daughter again, to see her smile, or hear her laugh.
37:02There's Clare and her daddy.
37:05You stole the children she would have had.
37:07I will never get to be a grandpa to her babies.
37:11You stole my life.
37:13I am not happy like I once was.
37:16In fact, I feel guilty when I feel any happiness.
37:20Her light is gone.
37:22You stole Clare's light.
37:25I am not a hateful man.
37:28However, I hate you.
37:30Absolutely.
37:31I hate that you get to wake up each day, and she will not.
37:36I hate that you live, and she does not.
37:41You stole my little girl.
37:44And yet you get to live.
37:46How is that fair?
37:49That's correct.
37:52Miss Levesque died a squalid death of quite unimaginable, multifaceted violence.
37:58This was a sustained episode of feral butchery.
38:02Aaron Pearson's stand-up.
38:05On charge two, you will serve a sentence of imprisonment of two years.
38:09On charge four, I now pass upon you, on a concurrent basis, a sentence of imprisonment for life.
38:14I fixed the punishment part of this disposal at a period of 25 years.
38:18That is all.
38:27As he said 25 years, I watched him tense like a ball, and I just thought, good.
38:34Good.
38:36He deserves it.
38:37He had no mercy.
38:38He deserves none.
38:39And that's how I feel.
38:54I express my thanks to council.
38:56Thank you, Harold.
38:57Thank you, Lord.
38:57Good.
38:58Good.
39:00I've known a few people who are murderers.
39:04Aaron Pearson is the most cold-blooded murderer I have ever come across.
39:21There's no chance of forgiveness.
39:23These people don't belong in society.
39:28There's no fixing this type.
39:34It was important for me to find Clint and Jenny to see how they were.
39:40It was a clean and emotional time for them.
39:43And it was also a very emotional meeting.
39:47I gave her a hug because she did such a good job.
39:50She was good.
39:51She was our voice.
39:54She was our fight.
39:57I can't imagine what it was like for Clint and Jenny and Claire's family to sit through the evidence.
40:05It was harrowing at times.
40:07It was graphic at times.
40:09But they showed remarkable strength and dignity in sitting through that evidence.
40:28Today, we were able to get justice for Claire and hopefully start a new path and helping other victims suffering
40:36from domestic violence and being able to move forward and come forward.
40:40Claire was so isolated in Shetland, but she was such a phenomenal person.
40:59Oh, there's, there's, I don't know, a woodpecker, but Claire and I, like, we'd meet up after work.
41:11She was always up for a good walk.
41:13All these trails have memories of our conversations.
41:20Claire was out in Shetland, all alone and so far away from everybody who loved and cared about her.
41:31But I didn't think I was going to get a call saying she was killed.
41:40Although I don't see her on those trails anymore, I feel her presence.
41:44It's a tough couple of weeks.
41:49I miss her so much.
41:51I miss her so much.
41:55I miss her so much.
42:15We were able to go and spend some time on the beach that she loved.
42:24Where she was walking the dogs.
42:35It's nice to actually see it, like, be here.
42:38I feel closer.
42:43And we were lucky enough to be able to bring back some stones.
42:48It's not much, but just to have something from a place that she loved.
42:57I remember my sister, Claire, as a bright and bold, really a one-of-a-kind soul.
43:06I want her to be remembered for the beautiful girl that she was.
43:14She'll forever be in my heart.
43:24Me, Hope, William.
43:28That's for them.
43:33My daughter was being abused.
43:38And now I see it.
43:42Every day I miss her.
43:45Every day.
43:46Every day.
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