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00:13The point of a trial is that the crown lay before a jury in allegation and that allegation in this
00:21case his murder in summer of 23 Claire met Aaron Pearson but we never met him Claire didn't tell me
00:51that she was seeing this guy until she was already in Scotland and all happened so quick and I thought
00:59everything was fine did she tell you about any injuries or nothing at all otherwise maybe this
01:06wouldn't happen my job is to prove to the jury Aaron Pearson killed Claire Levesque we have some
01:14records which suggest there was a telephone call with Aaron Pearson that day don't remember it there
01:20is no onus on an accused person to disprove the case I've got no more questions thank you the
01:29crown have to prove the case this is just a horror story from the beginning
01:41him trying to walk out of the courtroom was just unbelievable the body map shows severe and
01:48significant injuries could any of these injuries have been self-inflicted could they in principle
01:55have been self-inflicted yes all that I'm endeavoring to do is ask questions of which may raise doubt in
02:03the minds of the jury and mr Pearson is to give evidence as jurors you must not be swayed by
02:11any
02:11emotional consideration which you might have every accused is presumed innocent until proved guilty
02:17the crown must establish guilt beyond reasonable doubt
02:20you
02:25you
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 so we could feel
03:11like a
03:12a connection to her there I think I needed to go there most of all to see and where she
03:21lived and what she was doing there
03:26you 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
03:49I looked in there and I could see where she thought
03:55it hurt
03:56It hurt
03:57you
03:57you
03:57you
04:57Good morning everyone. You'll remember that on Friday the Advocate Deputy closed the Crown case. Mr Patterson, good morning.
05:04There was a body of evidence led by the Crown and thereafter Mr Pearson has the opportunity to either give
05:13evidence or not give evidence.
05:16We had heard that there was a chance that the accused might take the stand.
05:22Of course, you are innocent until you're proven guilty. He's got every right to not take the stand.
05:28My lord, thank you. Good morning. Mr Pearson is to give evidence, my lord.
05:37Thank you very much. Would you please come forward, Mr Pearson?
05:43I guess he literally thinks he can win over the jury.
05:48He has to provide an explanation as to how Claire Levesque came to sustain 26 stab wounds.
05:54There are pros and there are cons. The pros are the accused person may well be believed by the jury.
06:01The result of that would be an acquittal. The cons are, of course, that the accused person is then a
06:07witness.
06:08They'll be asked questions which could be awkward for them and the case will be put to them.
06:17I want to hear what he has to say because I don't think any of it's going to make sense.
06:22Mr Pearson?
06:24Yes.
06:26Do you accept that you were ever abusive towards Claire?
06:34Well, yes and no.
06:37There were times where we drank just far too much and we were abusive to one another.
06:42We got along great when we were sober. Everything was really good.
06:46I did love her. I did. Still do.
06:51Did you ever threaten that you would kill her?
06:54No.
06:57This is a challenging case because of the evidence, of course.
07:00There was a 999 call that was made.
07:03There was an admission by Mr Pearson.
07:07But the issue that was pertinent in relation to the whole case is what happened before the 999 call was
07:17made.
07:17That 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.
07:37Yes.
07:38Now, there was a bottle of liquor.
07:42You bought that and you took it back to the shed.
07:46Correct?
07:47Yes.
07:50So, as the afternoon progressed, what happened?
07:56She was in the shed with me and I could tell by the tone in her voice that she was
07:59already really drunk.
08:01Did you say anything to her?
08:03I remember requesting that she go to bed.
08:07Then she said the words, fuck you, to me.
08:11What happened the next time you saw Claire?
08:13I was in the shed and she had come through the door furious with me, physically swinging at me.
08:21I believe I had just finished speaking with her father about sending her back.
08:25I believe I offered him some money.
08:28I told him that I had already booked the flights.
08:31She was really, really, really upset with me.
08:35She had heard me speaking to him.
08:38So, when she came in, what happened next?
08:43She literally punched my top plate denture right out of my mouth.
08:48What happened then?
08:50She went over to pee in that garbage can that I had used earlier to bail the water out of
08:58the tub.
09:01She was really drunk and I was telling her everything she wanted to hear because she had obviously heard me
09:07speaking with her dad.
09:08She was furious.
09:12Aaron claims that Claire overhears a conversation between Aaron and her dad.
09:22And in that conversation, it said that Aaron is going to take Claire back home to Canada.
09:30He's going to go with her because she can't live here anymore because of the dreadful alcoholic that he claims
09:36that she is.
09:39What happened then?
09:40Next thing I knew, I heard her kind of cough and kind of choke and then fall.
09:46But with 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 was rolling around in her own urine.
09:59There was a struggle on the ground.
10:01She 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 was an old black-handled knife that basically had lived in the garage all the time.
10:16She grabbed the knife.
10:19And then she kind of did like a 180, put the knife in her right hand and landed in the
10:25water.
10:32She just gave me one second, please.
10:36My opinion on his defence during this trial is it's a farce.
10:42It's just absolute ridiculousness.
10:46She then looked at me, looked at the knife, and stuck it in her stomach.
11:13She then looked at me, looked at the knife, and stuck it in her stomach.
11:22She started screaming, and she repeated to puncture herself here, I believe, like this.
11:32How many times did she stab herself when she was in the hot tub?
11:34Well, I would say four or five.
11:39Do you have any recollection of being in the hot tub with Claire?
11:43No.
11:44Did you take the phone from your mother and speak to the police?
11:48No recollection of that whatsoever. No, I don't.
11:51Do you have any recollection of saying horrible things and nasty, unpleasant things to police officers?
11:57No. No, I don't. No, I don't.
12:02I remember being restrained.
12:06I remember bits and pieces of being in the hospital.
12:10I do not remember speaking in the 999 call.
12:18I don't know what happened.
12:23Mr. Pearson, I don't know more questions.
12:31His evidence was quite simple, actually, and I suppose to put it, to still it down, that was Claire Levesque
12:38drinking too much, and then confronting him, and then causing herself injuries.
12:43And thereafter, his recollection of events, was very limited.
12:49I have a good deputy. I expect you have questions for the witness.
12:53Thank you, Mum.
12:57Good afternoon, Mr. Pearson.
12:59Good afternoon.
13:02In cross-examining Aaron Pearson, I want to show the inconsistencies in his evidence, from the first statement that he
13:10made to his mother that he'd hurt Claire, to the position he adopted at police interview that he couldn't remember,
13:15because he was in shock.
13:18Now, we've heard evidence during this trial, that on the 11th of February, Claire Levesque died, and her cause of
13:27death was stab wounds of the neck and chest, wasn't it?
13:33Yes, ma'am.
13:36And you inflicted those stab wounds, didn't you, Mr. Pearson?
13:40Not that I recall, ma'am.
13:42And she tried to defend herself when you were assaulting her, didn't she?
13:47Once again, ma'am, I do not remember.
13:50Do you remember the photographs, Mr. Pearson?
13:53Ma'am, I do remember the photographs, but I don't remember doing anything like that.
13:58And that wasn't the first time you had hurt Claire, was it?
14:03The Crown case is not that Aaron Pearson, suddenly, out of the blue, decided to assault Claire Levesque on 11th
14:10of February of 2024.
14:12The Crown case is that what happened is, in effect, the culmination of a number of months of domestically abusive
14:19behavior.
14:22We heard the recording that was recorded on the 12th of December of 2023.
14:27Claire Levesque says to you, you beat the shit out of me on my 24th birthday.
14:32I see that, yes.
14:34And you tell her that was the second time?
14:36That was the second time we had a significant argument.
14:39No, so you don't deny beating her up, you accept that you beat her up on the 24th of November,
14:44is that right?
14:44I reciprocated, yes.
14:46So by reciprocated, do you mean you hit her?
14:49After being punched in the head several times, yes.
14:52Mr. Pearson?
14:52Ma'am, this is...
14:53Mr. Pearson?
14:54Okay, so my apologies, my apologies.
14:56The question was, did you hit her?
14:58Yes.
14:58Yes, I did.
15:07She's just ear to ear grinning.
15:10I love this one.
15:12At the beach, she was eating like a pile of sand and then later she's spitting it out.
15:22Claire was a very prominent part of my life growing up and through later years of her life.
15:41In late November, I received some messages from Claire that kind of changed the story about the safety of where
15:51she was.
15:53She said that she had been abused by Erin Pearson.
15:59Upon hearing that, I grew very worried and very concerned about her well-being.
16:05I was telling her, like, if it happens once, it's going to happen again, you've got to get out of
16:08this situation, you've got to get out of here.
16:11I started implementing a plan to come pick her up, to get Claire home and get her out of this
16:17relationship safely.
16:20But the next day, she said that everything was fine, that everything was okay, and that everything was worked out.
16:27But in my gut, though, I just knew something wasn't right.
16:32I was going to come pick her up, but I would have just came a little bit sooner and missed
16:43her a lot.
16:53You told your mum on the 11th of February of 2024 that you had hurt Claire, didn't you?
17:01According to my mum, yes.
17:04And that was after you had returned to the house, after driving your car into the sea, wasn't it?
17:12According to my mum, yes.
17:17The Crown case is that after Erin Pearson had either killed Claire Levesque or injured her so badly that he
17:24thought that he had killed her,
17:26but he drove his car into the sea at a point very close by to the house in Sannis.
17:38Erin had already got quite a reputation for his fast driving across the island.
17:51He had a very fancy silver Porsche.
17:54He drove it everywhere.
17:57He set up a YouTube channel.
18:03And Claire, you would buy into that, wouldn't you?
18:08This is a wealthy man.
18:10He's got a Porsche.
18:13And I also heard that the reason he had the Porsche was that he was buying and selling drugs on
18:21that island.
18:22But nothing was ever proven.
18:28How long would it take you to drive from the house to the point where we saw the tyre tracks
18:35going off onto the grass and then into the sea?
18:38In a hypothetical scenario, because once again, I can't remember doing it, but in a hypothetical scenario, it could be
18:45seconds to a minute, maybe.
18:59And I don't know why Erin Pearson drove his car into the sea.
19:04That's for him to explain.
19:06But it adds to our timeline.
19:08Because having visited the island, I know that that beach is only a very short drive from the house.
19:17So if you drove into the sea, swam to the shore, and then walked back, you could probably do all
19:24of that in about 15 minutes, maybe 10 minutes.
19:27Would that be fair to say?
19:28It would be fair to say that.
19:34He is seen walking back from the beach area at about quarter to five in the evening.
19:42I just thought that it was weird that he was just walking back to the house.
19:49That, to me, was extremely weird.
19:55And again, that's a key marker in the timeline, because it's shortly after that, that we have the 999 call
20:02made by Janet Pearson.
20:05She's bleeding and dying in a hot tub.
20:11Why did you drive your car into the sea?
20:14Again, I can't remember doing that.
20:17So did you do that after you had stabbed Claire Levesque multiple times, Mr. Pearson?
20:22I did not stab Claire multiple times, to my knowledge.
20:25And you inflicted superficial wounds to your neck.
20:31According to the photograph and my mum.
20:33You told the 999 operator that you killed her because she drank too much and acted like an idiot, and
20:42she had pissed you off.
20:44Yeah, that was me.
20:46But once again, I can't remember saying it.
20:49Well, the question isn't about what you remember, Mr. Pearson.
20:52I'm just making myself clear.
20:53I didn't want you to twist my words.
20:55You assaulted her by stabbing her 26 times, Mr. Pearson.
21:02How many times do I need to repeat myself, ma'am?
21:07It was such a violent assault that it left a piece of the knife embedded in her skull, and you
21:12did that, didn't you?
21:15That's what the evidence is saying, I suppose.
21:18It was just the constant, I don't know, I don't know, ma'am, like, I don't know.
21:24It was like, why did you even take the stand?
21:38So Crown Production 87 is the transcript of the interview that was conducted on the 13th of February of 2024
21:45at Lowell Police Office.
21:47And at the top of page three, the police officer says, okay, you know she's obviously passed away, and you
21:54say, yeah, I've been hearing it in here.
21:57Yeah, one of the officers told me in there, yeah.
22:01So are you saying that it wasn't until you were interviewed by police on the 13th of February that you
22:06knew that Claire had died?
22:08That's correct.
22:13I highly doubted that.
22:38Aaron Pearson says he can't remember what happened after he said Claire had stabbed herself.
22:44But there was a video that he had recorded himself.
22:50And I want to use that to again point out an inconsistency in his account.
22:57He was in the hot tub with Claire still when the police showed up.
23:05My lord, I wish to play that particular piece of video, just 15 seconds.
23:09And if you can listen carefully to it as well, Mr. Pearson.
23:13Sure, okay.
23:19Come on in.
23:22Fucking do.
23:25Fuck you, you fucking pig.
23:31Now that's your voice, isn't it, Mr. Pearson?
23:33It is, ma'am, yeah.
23:35We see a hand there, Mr. Pearson.
23:38And that's Claire Levesque in the hot tub with you.
23:40I'm not sure.
23:42I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't see.
23:45So you're in the hot tub.
23:46I can't confirm because, like I said, I don't, I don't know.
23:50Mr. Pearson, I can show the footage that shows her face.
23:54I'm loathe to do that, my lord.
23:54No, please don't.
23:55Please don't.
23:56I can't.
23:58If you're required to do it, advocate depute, then you proceed as you see fit.
24:02Thank you, ma'am.
24:03If we can, again, I warn those who are in the court.
24:05No, please don't show that.
24:06That this will show the face of the deceased very briefly.
24:11I'm conscious that these kinds of images are very distressing.
24:16And while it's something that I don't choose to do lightly, if it's an important piece of evidence, I will
24:21have to show that piece of evidence.
24:26I'm not looking at it.
24:30I didn't even recognize her.
24:33She was so pale.
24:35And you, I didn't recognize her face.
24:39It was just, it was awful.
24:42I wasn't expecting that at all.
24:47There is an audible intake of breath when we're shown Clare in the hot tub.
24:53The jury have their head in their hands.
24:58Some of them are crying.
25:00Can we just stop that there?
25:04I can only imagine how tough it is for the officers.
25:10Somebody is so, so severely injured and somebody's just confessed to actually killing them on the phone while they're actively
25:19driving to this call.
25:25We obviously saw it just there when we were at the house and, but you just don't think about it
25:31at the time.
25:33The only time I really thought about things was when I saw a picture of Clare in the local press.
25:39And it was just a shock because you're just seeing a young lass, like a pretty young lass, and that's
25:45not the person that I saw in the garage.
25:52Now, we saw the face of Clare Levesque in that video, Mr. Pearson.
25:58Okay.
25:59You took that video, didn't you?
26:02I'm assuming so.
26:04And yet you wish to maintain that you did not know that Clare was dead when the police interviewed you
26:09two days later.
26:12I maintain that, ma'am.
26:15You were angry, you were shouting and swearing at the police when Clare was lying dead in that hot tub,
26:21weren't you, Mr. Pearson?
26:23Yes, in that video, yeah.
26:26You murdered Clare Levesque, didn't you?
26:28As far as I remember, no, ma'am.
26:31No further questions.
26:32Thank you, Mudd.
26:37He couldn't explain what he had done that day, so he was now making up a story.
26:41And in doing so, he was further abusing Clare.
27:00Members of the jury, we're now ready to proceed to the next phase of the trial in which counsel will
27:04be addressing you directly from the lectern.
27:06Please feel free to continue to take whatever notes you think will assist you in your deliberations.
27:15The jury has a lot to consider.
27:17I have to be able to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Aaron Pearson not only killed Clare Levesque, but
27:24that he murdered her.
27:26That's a slightly different test.
27:30I now invite the Advocate Deputy to address you for the Crown. Advocate Deputy.
27:34Thank you, Sir Paulson.
27:37Thank you, my lord.
27:39Good morning, members of the jury.
27:42You're going to kill me.
27:44That is what Clare Levesque said to the accused, Aaron Pearson, on the 12th of December of 2023.
27:53Just two short months later, Aaron Pearson said to a 999 call operator,
28:11He went on to describe how he had definitely killed her to make sure I drowned her after I stabbed
28:20her several times and beat her the fuck up really badly.
28:29Obviously, what was said in that 999 call was a very significant piece of evidence in the trial.
28:37There's no getting away from that.
28:40Now, of course, Mr Pearson explained that he couldn't recollect that 999 call.
28:46That was his position he adopted.
28:47This is a very tragic set of events.
28:54But what you can't do, members of the jury, is to bring emotions into your decision making.
29:01In Scotland, the level or standard of proof is proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
29:09And what I say to almost every jury that I speak to is this.
29:14If you were to pause or hesitate in relation to an allegation, that pause, that hesitation, our law says is
29:26a reasonable doubt.
29:29Your duty is then to acquit.
29:35When Claire says to Aaron Pearson, you beat the shit out of me on my 24th birthday, his response was,
29:41not a denial.
29:42No, what he said was, that was the second time.
29:46He also appears to blame Claire for him hitting her.
29:51Does that sound familiar?
29:53Because on the evidence we heard yesterday and today, Aaron Pearson appears to blame Claire Levesque for inflicting the stab
30:01wounds on herself.
30:03The suggestion made by the Crown to Mr Pearson was that his testimony was fabricated and not true.
30:11But I suppose my function is to look at the evidence and try and say, well, these are the aspects
30:17which support him.
30:21I'm asking you to bring your common sense to this.
30:23If he's just going to come up with a fabricated, total nonsense of a story.
30:29Why not just say she did everything to herself?
30:32Because he's not said that.
30:34He said he's got no memory.
30:37He said he saw inflicting wounds to herself.
30:40There being blood and then no memory.
30:43It may be members of the jury come to the view that perhaps she had had too much to drink.
30:50Perhaps she was drunk.
30:56The pathologist told you it's entirely unrealistic to suggest Claire Levesque inflicted those stab wounds on herself.
31:05It didn't seem to suggest that they couldn't have happened.
31:09And it may be members of the jury that you're left thinking, well, really, where were we are?
31:14Where are we with that evidence?
31:17This is what his whole life is riding on.
31:20Suicide.
31:21Claire killing herself and doing this to herself.
31:25I thought it was a joke.
31:27The evidence tells you, members of the jury, Aaron Pearson murdered Claire Levesque.
31:33If he's going to lie, you know, you might think it would be a big lie.
31:40But if he's telling the truth, members of the jury, you ought to acquit him.
31:53So, members of the jury, you've now heard all the evidence in this case.
31:57For the Crown to prove the crime of murder, you would have to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the
32:02accused, Aaron Pearson, killed Claire Levesque on 11th February 2024.
32:08The starting point of the Crown case is what the Advocate Deputy characterised as the admission evidence featuring in the
32:14999 call,
32:16which the Advocate Deputy described as a remarkably accurate account of events.
32:21The Advocate Deputy also referred you to the hot tub video and to further comments made by the accused to
32:26police witnesses.
32:27The Advocate Deputy submitted that corroboration for this evidence could be and was located in the evidence of Dr. Ainsworth
32:34on the sites and number of injuries,
32:36the force required to inflict them, and the issue of self-infliction.
32:41Mr. Patterson advanced the following submissions.
32:45Dr. Ainsworth's testimony did not go to that point of suggesting that self-infliction was utterly impossible or could not
32:53have happened.
32:54And you may be left wondering, Mr. Patterson observed, where Dr. Ainsworth's opinion takes you as a jury.
33:01When you look at the whole evidence and the support for Mr. Pearson's account, in particular in the messages,
33:07you may come to the view that the Crown has failed to prove that Mr. Pearson is guilty of murder.
33:16You are the judges of the facts, and you decide what's been proved and what hasn't.
33:21It's all a matter for you.
33:30Whenever a jury goes out to consider their verdict, I can't second guess what that verdict will be.
33:35And it is very nerve-wracking.
33:41I'm wondering, have the Crown done enough here?
33:47Some juries can be quick, some can be slow.
33:50Some can take five minutes, some can take five hours or five days.
33:54You don't know what's going on in the jury deliberation room.
33:57What are the arguments other people are making?
34:00Did something stick out to them that didn't stick out to me?
34:07Mr. Pearson has explained his position, so it's over to the jury to decide whether or not the Crown have
34:13proved the case beyond a reasonable doubt,
34:15which is a very high standard, a very high standard.
34:18In the High Court of Justiciary, in Court No. 1, this is a verdict.
34:32Of the seven original charges, only two remain.
34:36Charge two is a charge of domestic abuse over a prolonged period of time.
34:42And charge number four, of course, murder.
34:56I hope that having done my job properly, I've given them sufficient evidence that they can rely on.
35:01But the jury verdict is a jury verdict.
35:13Court!
35:17Good afternoon, thank you.
35:27Members of the jury, will your spokesperson please stand up?
35:34Have you reached your verdict?
35:36Yes.
35:37What is your verdict in respect of Aaron Bylock Pearson on charge two on the indictment?
35:43Guilty.
35:44Is that a unanimous or a majority decision?
35:47Unanimous.
35:48What is your verdict in respect of Aaron Bylock Pearson on charge four on the indictment?
35:53Guilty.
35:55Is that a unanimous or a majority decision?
35:57Unanimous.
36:03Members of the jury, thank you for your attention.
36:09I had no doubt in my mind there was going to be anybody on his side.
36:16Of course he did it.
36:18Of course he did it.
36:18There is no defense.
36:20Aaron Bylock Pearson, you have today on the unanimous verdict of the jury been convicted of a crime of exceptional
36:27depravity,
36:28namely the murder of Miss Clare Levesque.
36:31Your own evidence was, in my view, an exercise from start to finish in victim blaming.
36:36This malicious, vindictive and wholly fabricated account suggests certainly to me that you have sought to continue to humiliate your
36:43victim after her death,
36:44even in this courtroom in the presence of her grieving family.
36:59You stole my little girl, my best friend, my life.
37:04You need your's clear going home.
37:06I will not get to hug my daughter again, to see her smile, or hear her laugh.
37:11There's Claire and her daddy.
37:13You stole the children she would have had.
37:15I will never get to be a grandpa to her babies.
37:20You stole my life.
37:22I am not happy like I once was.
37:24In fact, I feel guilty when I feel any happiness.
37:29Her light is gone.
37:31You stole Claire's light.
37:34I am not a hateful man.
37:36However, I hate you.
37:39Absolutely.
37:40I hate that you get to wake up each day, and she will not.
37:44I hate that you live, and she does not.
37:49You stole my little girl.
37:52And yet you get to live.
37:55How is that fair?
37:58That's correct.
38:00Miss Levesque died a squalid death of quite unimaginable, multifaceted violence.
38:06This was a sustained episode of feral butchery.
38:10Aaron Pearson's stand-up.
38:13On charge two, you will serve a sentence of imprisonment of two years.
38:17On charge four, I now pass upon you, on a concurrent basis, a sentence of imprisonment for life.
38:23I fix the punishment part of this disposal at a period of 25 years.
38:27That is all.
38:36As he said, 25 years, I watched him tense like a ball, and I just thought, good.
38:43Good.
38:44He deserves it.
38:45He had no mercy.
38:46He deserves none.
38:47And that's how I feel.
39:03I express my thanks to council.
39:04Thank you, Marlowe.
39:05Thank you, Lord.
39:07Thank you, Lord.
39:09I've known a few people who are murderers.
39:12Aaron Pearson is the most cold-blooded murderer I have ever come across.
39:29There's no chance of forgiveness.
39:32These people don't belong in society.
39:37There's no fixing this type.
39:42It was important for me to find Clint and Jenny, to see how they were.
39:49It was a clean and emotional time for them.
39:51And it was also a very emotional meeting.
39:55I gave her a hug because she did such a good job.
39:58She was good.
40:00She was our voice.
40:02She was our fight.
40:06I can't imagine what it was like for Clint and Jenny and Claire's family
40:11to sit through the evidence.
40:14It was harrowing at times.
40:16It was graphic at times.
40:17But they showed remarkable strength and dignity in sitting through that evidence.
40:36Today, we were able to get justice for Claire and hopefully start a new path and helping other victims suffering
40:44from domestic violence and being able to move forward and come forward.
40:48Claire was so isolated in Shetland, but she was such a phenomenal person and I miss her terribly.
41:12Oh, there's, there's a, I don't know, a woodpecker, but...
41:15Claire and I, like, we'd meet up after work.
41:19She was always up for a good walk.
41:22All these trails have memories of our conversations.
41:29Claire was out in Shetland, all alone and so far away from everybody who loved and cared about her.
41:39But I didn't think I was going to get a call saying she was killed.
41:48Although I don't see her on those trails anymore, I feel her presence.
41:52It was a tough couple weeks.
41:57I miss her so much.
41:59I miss her so much.
42:01I miss her so much.
42:33Where she was walking the dog.
42:43It's nice to actually see it, like, be here.
42:46I feel closer.
42:51And we were lucky enough to be able to bring back some stones.
42:56It's not much, but just to have something from a place that she loved.
43:05I remember my sister Claire as a bright and bold, really a one-of-a-kind soul.
43:15I want her to be remembered for the beautiful girl that she was.
43:23She'll forever be in my heart.
43:32Me, Hope, William.
43:37That's for them.
43:42My daughter was being abused, and now I see it.
43:50Every day I miss her.
43:53Every day.
43:54We'll see you then.
43:57Do you.
44:07We'll see you soon.
44:08You're welcome.
44:11Bye.
44:14Bye.
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