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True Crime Presents Season 2 Episode 1
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00:0036-year-old Wayne Coventry is looking for a partner.
00:05Wayne just wanted to be loved.
00:07But has he found the right one?
00:09Cadenia, she's got an evil streak in her, definitely.
00:13If she couldn't have Wayne, no one else could have him.
00:15Sometimes choosing a partner is the most dangerous thing we can do.
00:19He was absolutely besotted with her. We loved her to death.
00:23His devotion comes at a cost.
00:26Cordelia stabbed him in the back with a broken blight.
00:28Blood everywhere.
00:30She just smacked as if she knew what she was doing.
00:33Wayne Coventry, Cordelia Farrell, a fatal match.
00:53A bird's eye view of an ordinary town,
00:56which in 2019 saw an extraordinary love story involving a man called Wayne Coventry.
01:03A man close to his family.
01:07I was quite overprotective of Wayne.
01:10I was nine when he was born, and I loved it, having another little brother.
01:18Always got a smile on his face, like a Cheshire cat.
01:22I've never known anyone small so much, to be fair.
01:25He just always had a grin on his face.
01:31He was bubbly and a normal child.
01:36He used to make us laugh a lot.
01:40Even as he grew up, he still used to make us laugh.
01:45Occasionally, the brothers overstepped the mark.
01:48I'd done something wrong when I was younger.
01:52I'd nicked loads of archery equipment.
01:54Police come out and search my mum and dad's eyes.
02:00Stolen some bows.
02:02And they did them behind the shed in the garden.
02:06Police couldn't find nothing.
02:08I'm just about to leave, and then my little brothers popped up and goes,
02:11I'd be all in the shed.
02:13And obviously, that was it.
02:16Yeah, got nicked there and then on the spot.
02:18And that's one thing that always stuck in my mind.
02:22He got away with it until he opened his mouth.
02:30As a teenager, Wayne falls for a local girl.
02:34According to older brother Sean, they have a good relationship.
02:38The first girl he went out with, he was with her for roughly 18 years.
02:44He was like a one-woman man, which was really good.
02:47When he was with someone, he was devoted to them.
02:50He was only 16, I think, when they had the first child.
02:54He ended up with three children.
02:56A girl, then a boy, and then a girl again.
02:59He did love the kids' mum to bits.
03:01Always had done.
03:02His kids meant the world to Wayne.
03:04He absolutely adored them.
03:10I lived together, and I moved down Devon together.
03:15Yeah, he moved there with his partner and his kids.
03:19Didn't see him for years after that.
03:23They were great together until, I don't know exactly what,
03:26I think they just petered out.
03:28In June 2017, the end of the relationship marks a painful turning point for Wayne
03:35as he faces the reality of leaving his children 200 miles behind.
03:42Then, obviously, when he moved back, moved up to Bronzegrove.
03:46He had his children stay with him at weekends and stuff like that.
03:49He doted on his children.
03:52His kids meant the world to him.
03:53He missed them when he weren't around them.
04:04Wayne will have been dramatically impacted
04:07by losing the family that he built up in his first relationship.
04:13This is somebody whose meaning, purpose in life, is now gone.
04:18It's somebody who now needs a strong figure, a dominant figure,
04:23somebody to lead him, give him direction.
04:26That somebody would be Cordelia, sometimes known as Delia Farrell.
04:31Wayne told me once and twice he'd been speaking with Cordelia.
04:37They lived in the same area, so they bumped into each other.
04:44He brought her up here.
04:46They had Sunday dinner and that.
04:48I mean, they're quite funny as a couple as well.
04:51My brother used to have this hot sauce,
04:52that I don't know where he used to get it from,
04:54but it's the hottest thing I've ever tasted in my life,
04:56and they used to play each other up.
04:58And when they'd done them a Sunday dinner and that,
05:00my brother's come in and got it,
05:01and he squirted it into a roaster.
05:03She was like...
05:05Yeah, he seemed very happy.
05:08He just fought for that one person, and he did.
05:13He proper fell for her.
05:15There was no getting them away from each other.
05:18He absolutely fought the world over.
05:21To start with, he did introduce me to her,
05:24and we did talk.
05:28Wayne and Cordelia were mostly laughing together
05:30and enjoying each other's company,
05:32but then there was that part of her
05:34that just was totally different.
05:41I took an instant dislike to her
05:44with her attitude and everything.
05:46She used to hide from me.
05:48I mean, locking herself in the toilet or in the bedroom
05:51just because I was there was ridiculous.
05:54I mean, I've never harmed a female.
05:57She couldn't think that I'd knock her about or anything.
06:00I've never hit a female in my life,
06:02so I used to think he was stupid.
06:05Every time Wayne's father visits,
06:08we have Cordelia hiding, staying well out of the way.
06:12For me, it's as if she doesn't want to fully understand Wayne.
06:18She doesn't want to hear more about Wayne,
06:20to meet his family,
06:21because to do so would humanise Wayne.
06:25And at the moment, Wayne is just playing a particular role,
06:29a particular character within a melodrama
06:32that I think the two of them have created.
06:34Sometimes they could be excellent together.
06:36When they got on, they did get on.
06:39But then when they didn't, it was bad.
06:44Cordelia's behaviour can in part be explained
06:47by the fact that she was diagnosed
06:49with an underlying personality disorder.
06:52And the personality disorder that she got diagnosed as having
06:55was emotionally unstable personality disorder,
06:59which used to be, in my day,
07:00called borderline personality disorder,
07:03the borderline between neurosis and psychosis.
07:06But in layperson's terms,
07:08what that means is simply
07:10you're riding an emotional rollercoaster
07:14with somebody that has this diagnosis.
07:17They're volatile.
07:19They're self-destructive.
07:20And that's partly because they have no sense of self.
07:24And so some days that are really kind,
07:27some days that are really pleasant to be around,
07:29and the very next day, sometimes within an hour,
07:33they can be a completely different personality
07:36because they have no fixed sense of who they are.
07:41And, of course, if you're riding a rollercoaster,
07:45emotionally, some days you want to love and care.
07:49But the very next day, you might want to kill.
07:54With Cordelia knowing that Wayne was a decent chap
07:59wanting a loving relationship,
08:00this gave Cordelia the upper hand.
08:03It gave her the opportunity to control that relationship.
08:08If he went anywhere, she'd have to know where or why.
08:11She didn't want him being around other women.
08:15Even though he weren't into other women when he was with someone,
08:18he wasn't that kind of person.
08:19Wayne wasn't.
08:19But Cordelia obviously thought he was.
08:23Wayne might not have been that type of person,
08:26but he does begin to make up stories of affairs with other women,
08:30which triggers Cordelia's jealous streak.
08:34There was a jealous streak with Cordelia as well,
08:36which is extremely worrying and surprising, really,
08:39when you think if Wayne doted on her that much,
08:41why would she be jealous?
08:43Because he's the one for her.
08:45If she didn't want him doing something, she'd stop him.
08:50It kind of paints a picture of this controlling,
08:51coercive behaviour by Cordelia.
08:54It stopped him doing a lot of things
08:56and seeing a lot of family members.
08:58Very controlling.
09:08During this time, Wayne has few pleasures in life.
09:11Wayne loved his mate, because he loved them.
09:15Always tinkering about with cars or bikes, he was.
09:18But his favourite was bikes.
09:20He loved his bikes, Wayne.
09:24He loved his motorbike.
09:26He got it while he was living down Devon.
09:30Then, one day, the motorbike is stolen.
09:35Someone had stolen his motorbike, and they dismantled it.
09:40We found it further up the road in an alleyway, dismantled.
09:45Around this time, Luck just didn't seem to be on his side.
09:50So he never got to ride the bike again.
09:56He never got to ride the bike again.
09:57Those who know Cordelia and Wayne are increasingly concerned.
10:01Sometimes fuelled by drugs and alcohol, they often fight,
10:05because, of course, drugs and alcohol are going to make them disinhibited,
10:09and some of those underlying tensions come to the surface.
10:18They'd had a number of arguments.
10:20She would wind him up on occasion.
10:22She would watch YouTube videos that starred her ex-boyfriend in there
10:26to try and get a rise from him,
10:28and almost sort of looking for a fight with him.
10:34She'd get dressed up and then decide that she's going out to make blokes and that,
10:38because she knew it had wind him up.
10:40I mean, she used to phone him up while having sex with other men,
10:45just so he could hear it and everything when it would get to him.
10:49What Cordelia does, this calling him while she's having sex with other men
10:55and watching videos of ex-partners, tells me two things.
11:00One, that to Cordelia, sexual power is incredibly important.
11:07And number two, that she doesn't feel she can achieve this
11:12through normal, healthy means.
11:14Every time Cordelia carried out some kind of abuse on Wayne,
11:19the inhibitions were reduced further.
11:23Each and every act just set the scene for the next.
11:27We thought it were hardest to get my wife from her,
11:29but obviously you can't protect her when it's going through something like that.
11:33He wasn't ready to leave her, he loved her too much.
11:35The more you allow and permit this toxic behaviour to continue,
11:41the more normalised that toxic behaviour becomes.
11:46You forgive it, you expect it.
11:49To be in a controlling and coercive relationship for a long time
11:54normalises what is actually toxic within the relationship.
12:00And of course, if that is allowed to continue,
12:03that's very dangerous indeed.
12:06If you tried to explain to him that you got a wrong one,
12:10he wouldn't listen.
12:13As far as he was concerned, she was the right one.
12:16He was that posotted with her.
12:20He absolutely loved her to death.
12:23But his father, Barry, becomes increasingly concerned.
12:27Some of the things he overhears are extremely worrying.
12:31She used to threaten him a lot over the phone.
12:34I've even heard her turn around and threaten to kill him.
12:36The fact that he expects this kind of treatment,
12:40so when he receives it, it's just what he anticipates.
12:45And he blames himself to some degree and it triggers him
12:50to seek her approval more rather than having the effect
12:54that it should have, which is to make him
12:57immediately leave the relationship.
13:01Wayne never thought about leaving Delia.
13:04He even turned round and said,
13:06would he come and live with me?
13:08I'd got a bed in the conservatory.
13:10He could have stopped in the conservatory,
13:12live with me.
13:13But no, he wanted to be with Delia.
13:17Everybody tried the hardest.
13:19Everybody tried to explain this is bad for you.
13:21You can't keep on going through what you're going through.
13:23But he stuck with it.
13:26That's how much he loved her.
13:27He used to say, look, I can't, Sean, and Oliver.
13:30You just can't do nothing, can you?
13:32It's increasingly clear Cordelia and Wayne
13:35are in a toxic relationship that they are both wedded to.
13:40It's quite clear that Wayne was keen to continue
13:43with the relationship with Cordelia as she was with him.
13:46So it's very difficult to try and manage that situation
13:49when both parties don't want to leave.
13:51Having only recently separated from his partner of 18 years,
13:56Wayne doesn't want to be alone.
13:58They work together in a relationship,
14:01but in a very dysfunctional, pathological way.
14:05Most people would run for the hills
14:08when experiencing this kind of psychological abuse
14:12within an intimate relationship.
14:14Only Wayne's family know about the abuse he claims to suffer
14:18at the hands of Cordelia.
14:20In this situation, we've got a man who hasn't reported domestic abuse.
14:26And, of course, there are some overlaps
14:28with why women don't report domestic abuse,
14:31fear of shame, for example.
14:33However, there are added elements
14:36when the man is the victim and the woman is the perpetrator.
14:40And, of course, that relates to ideas,
14:42often outdated ideas of masculinity.
14:46By being seen as being the victim of a woman
14:50who is domestically abusing the man,
14:52the man's sense of who he is is fundamentally altered,
14:58he believes, in the eyes of our culture.
15:09In 2019, the police received a telephone call from Wayne
15:14complaining that he'd been attacked by Cordelia.
15:19She went round to his flat and that,
15:21and they were having a bit of food and a bit of drink,
15:23and then she sort of pretended that she wanted to have sex,
15:27so she put her hand down his pants.
15:30The next thing he knows is she's grabbing on his testicles,
15:33really badly pulling down on it.
15:37It was a vicious attack.
15:38He described being grabbed by the testicles
15:40and literally pulled around the room.
15:43Because of the pain and everything of that,
15:45my brother actually passed out at that stage.
15:48And the next thing he remembers is coming round
15:50with her literally trying to bite it off.
15:55She was scary when she wanted to be.
15:58There we are.
16:05Cordelia is violent because, in her case,
16:10her underlying personality disorder
16:12doesn't give her a fixed centre that she's comfortable with.
16:17She's constantly frightened that she's going to be abandoned,
16:21and therefore that sense of being emotionally volatile
16:25is because it comes from a place
16:28where she doesn't actually know who she is.
16:32When you look at photographs of Cordelia,
16:34it's quite clear she's a very sexual woman,
16:37and she would be very conscious of how she could use
16:41her looks in relationships
16:45as a means by which she could control her partners.
16:49Add to that her emotional volatility.
16:53That's a very dangerous combination of factors.
16:58Eventually, when he got around,
17:00he thought the police and the ambulance had turned up,
17:02so he was going to open the door,
17:03and that's when she stabbed him in the back with a plate as well.
17:12When the police actually arrived,
17:13what they established was that not only she had bitten him,
17:16but also stabbed him in the back with some broken crockery.
17:19So this was quite serious.
17:22I mean, 58 sets of teeth marks the other were all in his bits,
17:25his testicles.
17:26So at that point, Cordelia was arrested
17:28and taken into custody for questioning.
17:32She said she was defending herself from an attack from Wayne,
17:36but what was surprising was there were no injuries on Cordelia.
17:40At the conclusion of that interview,
17:42she makes a chilling statement.
17:44One of them will end up dead.
17:51He called me from the hospital while he was in the hospital bed.
17:54You knew it was going to happen eventually, you know what I mean?
17:57She just went that far with things.
17:59It was just unbelievable.
18:02This wasn't a usual domestic dispute
18:05whereby couples have had a row and just fallen out and raised voices.
18:09This was a particularly vicious, nasty physical assault
18:12on a man by a woman, which is unusual in itself.
18:16It was embarrassing to say that you're getting beat up
18:20and terrorized by a woman.
18:23I mean, he didn't all sign it to me,
18:25but you could see it.
18:28And it was hard to watch when it was happening.
18:31When it's a male victim,
18:33often there's a deep-seated sense of shame and embarrassment
18:36at being attacked by a female perpetrator.
18:41We hardly spoke on the way back.
18:45I asked him if he wanted to come and stay at mine,
18:49but no, he wanted to go back to his own flat.
18:53So I took him back there, but he didn't say much.
18:56He didn't speak much about it.
18:58Cordelia would one day tell a court she suffered at the hands of Wayne too.
19:03He was never charged with an offence,
19:05but there's little doubt theirs is a highly volatile and toxic relationship.
19:11Having interviewed Cordelia and had her account,
19:15where she is claiming that she was defending herself from an argument,
19:18the police don't have sufficient evidence to charge her,
19:22and so she's released.
19:23The police need to investigate further.
19:26While they do, safeguards are put in place.
19:30Cordelia was actually under two different non-molestation orders
19:35from things that she was doing to my brother.
19:37Non-molestation orders issued by the courts
19:40protect a victim of abuse
19:42by preventing their abusers from contacting them.
19:46But Wayne and Cordelia are still seeing each other.
19:50Oh, he was at risk, but you couldn't tell him.
19:55He wouldn't listen to anybody.
19:58There was no getting him away from each other.
20:00He absolutely fought the world over.
20:02When you look at the assault that took place on Wayne by Cordelia,
20:05any normal person would step back from that and think,
20:08that's it, that's the end of the relationship, you know, I've had enough.
20:11But that didn't happen with Wayne and Cordelia.
20:16The pattern we see here is Cordelia being the one to attack Wayne.
20:22He reacts, he responds,
20:24but he's rarely proactively initiating violence.
20:31However, around this time,
20:34Wayne reveals a shocking incident to his older brother.
20:37I received a message of him, so I don't think we need to speak.
20:42And then all of a sudden I've seen a picture of my brother
20:45that I didn't even recognise him.
20:47He was just all black and blue.
20:52Seeing pictures of him,
20:53I couldn't stand him being beaten up like that.
20:57I wanted to get him here and keep him safe as well,
20:59so I had him get a taxi from the hospital,
21:01which was in Birmingham all the way up here.
21:04After the mysterious beating,
21:06Wayne's family rallies around.
21:08We sort of kept Wayne up here,
21:10being a bigger brother and that,
21:11I just wanted to try and protect him as much as I could.
21:14In fact,
21:15Wayne is now staying with his brother,
21:17Sean,
21:17in an attempt to keep him away from Cordelia.
21:20But he can't resist her.
21:22He kept on disappearing and that.
21:25He was sitting in a hotel with one of his mates.
21:29We put two and two together
21:31and we realised it was Cordelia.
21:34And Cordelia couldn't do anything wrong in his eyes.
21:38That's how much he thought of her
21:40and how much he loved her.
21:41He didn't want to be apart from her.
21:45Their relationship is like an addiction,
21:48something they feel they need,
21:50yet it brings them emotional
21:52and increasingly now physical pain.
21:56And it's a difficult cycle to break,
21:59growing more intense over time.
22:02And it's an addiction
22:03that is heading towards disaster.
22:18Wayne Coventry's bond to Cordelia Farrell
22:20is too strong.
22:23Despite promises to family that he would,
22:25he can't stay away.
22:28The couple are meeting in secret.
22:30They've been sleeping in the tent together.
22:32After what happened in September
22:34and all the other things that she'd done with him,
22:37when we found out that there was
22:38staying in the tent,
22:39we did say to Wayne, my brother,
22:41to bring Cordelia up and stay here.
22:44Because we thought he'd be better off staying here
22:46because we could keep an eye on him.
22:47She said to my partner and myself before
22:49that she'd like to bicker with him
22:50to keep him on his toes.
22:53She used to dollop and say to him
22:55that she was going out even if she weren't going out
22:57just so she could wind him up.
23:03The one thing Cordelia needs more than anything
23:06is to feel powerful within her relationships.
23:09And Wayne needs to be with somebody valuable,
23:12somebody dominant, somebody powerful,
23:14somebody significant.
23:15So the more she abuses him through this behaviour,
23:18the more he wants her.
23:19And the more he wants her,
23:20the more powerful she feels.
23:23They work together in a relationship,
23:26but in a very dysfunctional, pathological way.
23:30It's a very effective relationship,
23:32but one that is heading for disaster.
23:36She looked at us one day and she went,
23:39my name's Dee.
23:40And then she sort of turned around to him
23:41and went, my name's Cordelia.
23:43As if she brought two different sides to her.
23:48She's developing different strategies,
23:50different personas,
23:51with different names that are coming forward.
23:53When she was loving and bubbly and that,
23:56it was good.
23:57But then she could just snap.
24:00And then everything just went apart.
24:02It will be evident to other people
24:04that this is somebody very changeable,
24:06unpredictable,
24:07that they don't know what they're going to get.
24:09And it's because there is no stable core to Cordelia.
24:14This is somebody who is forever poised for battle,
24:19ready to be triggered.
24:23One minute should be fine
24:25and the next minute it should be a totally different person.
24:27People with this personality disorder
24:30are incredibly reactive, triggerable.
24:33They are volatile emotionally.
24:35They're not able to cope with any kind of disrespect
24:39or dishonour or any kind of assumed attacks
24:42on them and who they are at all.
24:46My partner actually said to Cordelia
24:48in front of Wayne,
24:49you're going to end up killing him, you are.
24:52She just smirked.
24:55Behind the closed doors of Sean's home,
24:58the matters of Wayne and Cordelia
25:01are coming to a head.
25:02They got up in the morning,
25:04there was sort of bickering.
25:06Ever willing to taunt her boyfriend,
25:09Cordelia spots an opportunity.
25:11My daughter came here,
25:13she was a prison officer,
25:14so obviously she used to turn up in her prison gloves
25:16and everything like that.
25:18And Cordelia tried it on with my daughter
25:20in front of my brother
25:21to try and wind him up.
25:23She just kept on putting it on her,
25:25trying to sit on her lap,
25:26trying to flirt with her.
25:31She started doing him upstairs in the bedroom
25:34where she scratched all his face
25:35and ripped his T-shirt.
25:37I've had to run up
25:38and sort of say,
25:39why I didn't come down and leave it.
25:41And he'd come down,
25:42he'd sit in the living room with me
25:43and she'd just carry on up,
25:45just trying to get a reaction out of him.
25:48But she couldn't get a reaction out of him
25:50and I kept on pulling him away to stop
25:52it getting any further.
25:55There was a point where
25:56she kicked him down the stairs
25:58and I had to run out
25:59to see what was going on again.
26:00She turned around and said
26:01that he'd kicked her up the stairs,
26:03but it was Wayne to come flying down the stairs.
26:08It just got worse through the day.
26:12My brother did retaliate
26:13and slice some of her clothes up,
26:15two of her jackets that she had.
26:18Wayne's retaliation
26:19makes her behaviour worse.
26:22This is everything that she cannot bear.
26:24This is everything that she is fighting against.
26:27This sense of feeling overpowered.
26:29The move wasn't one Farrell was going to accept.
26:35My brother's coming in through the gate
26:37and my 11-year-old Stoney's
26:39stood in front of my brother like that,
26:41as if protecting him.
26:44Even my son witnessed what was going on
26:46and was obviously trying to protect his uncle Wayne.
26:49There's a few people at the house.
26:51Wayne and Cordelia go into the kitchen
26:53and an argument ensues.
27:03Standing up for himself
27:05is not what Cordelia expects of Wayne.
27:08The feeling of being challenged
27:11would have overwhelmed her,
27:13triggering every instinct to fight back.
27:16And in the heat of the confrontation in the kitchen,
27:20the most common place in Britain
27:22where somebody will be killed,
27:24Cordelia reacts.
27:26Roughly about 7 o'clock.
27:29I had a commotion from in the living room,
27:31so I've come to the gate there
27:33and as I've got to the gate,
27:36Cordelia grabbed a knife out the knife block
27:37that was on the side just there.
27:40She was stood at the cooker with the blade in her hand
27:43and it was the biggest one out the block.
27:46She was stood here with a knife
27:47behind my brother's back,
27:49obviously because I seen the knife,
27:50I've shouted Wayne.
27:52He sort of took a couple of steps forward
27:54and then it was literally
27:54as if she was waiting for him to turn around.
28:00As he's sort of turned around,
28:03she's plunged the knife straight in.
28:08My brother-in-law shouted,
28:10she don't pull the knife out.
28:13But she just pulled it out and smirked
28:16as if she knew what she was doing.
28:18And my son was stood right by the side of her
28:21when she'd done it,
28:22a little 11-year-old boy.
28:27It was like my brother didn't realise
28:28what had happened at that time.
28:30So he's carried on and walked to here
28:33and then he sort of must have realised
28:36so he's turned round
28:37and he's just sat with Sean
28:38and that was it.
28:40He sort of fell down onto the floor here.
28:44People say you're free.
28:45I've never understood it before
28:47but I literally was stuck.
28:49I couldn't move.
28:52And then that's when I've come running in
28:54phoning 999 for the ambulance
28:58and the police and that
28:59and obviously I've had to get down on the floor
29:02and start counting my brother's last breaths
29:04as if it's on the floor.
29:08So having stabbed Wayne,
29:10Cordelia immediately flees the address
29:13and we don't know where she's gone.
29:14This leaves Wayne in a critical state
29:16in his brother's arms.
29:18She'd literally dropped the knife
29:20and walked out.
29:21My brother's dying on the floor.
29:25And then obviously you see
29:26all the colours start drying out.
29:31All his breathing had gone funny
29:32and I was on the phone to the ambulance
29:34and they were asking me to count his breaths
29:36and I think like that.
29:37It was hard.
29:39I couldn't do it.
29:40I had to get some help.
29:41Come and do it.
29:55Sean found me
29:58and says that
29:59Delia had stabbed Wayne
30:01and she'd gone.
30:09When the ambulance turned up
30:11I did run out there
30:12and try and say
30:12look, he's not breathing
30:14because he had actually stopped breathing.
30:16My brother-in-law was doing CPR and that.
30:18I was on the phone for
30:21three,
30:23three or four hours.
30:24During that time
30:25the paramedics were there.
30:28They revived him
30:28for a couple of minutes.
30:34They kept him in here for hours
30:36and they'd done open heart surgery
30:37in the kitchen
30:38but they stated
30:39that when they got his heart out
30:40there was no blood left in his body.
30:42She had severed the main artery
30:44to his heart.
30:47Eventually
30:47when they'd finished
30:49doing the work
30:50in here with Wayne
30:51they'd literally come in
30:52and pronounce him dead
30:53at the time.
30:56Heartbreaking.
31:04I couldn't sleep
31:06that night
31:06after that.
31:08I was awake
31:09couldn't sleep
31:10and then
31:11the following day
31:13I come down
31:15shore
31:17but of course
31:18there was nothing
31:19I could do.
31:30all this
31:31bruising
31:32and everything
31:32that he'd had
31:33from the previous fight
31:35because it was only
31:35a couple of weeks before
31:38all come out on him
31:40when he was dead
31:42so it wasn't
31:45my mind at all
31:48didn't look like him
31:50at all
31:50covered in bruises.
31:53For Wayne's brother
31:54and father
31:55their worst fears
31:57had become a reality.
31:59She kept saying
32:00that she'd
32:01murder him.
32:02She even told my brother-in-law
32:03in the morning
32:04or partner's brother
32:05Wayne's dead today
32:06I'm going to kill him
32:08but you don't think
32:09nothing of that
32:10you know what I mean
32:10but obviously
32:11she meant it.
32:15No I never thought
32:16it would actually happen.
32:18I wanted to protect him
32:20and I couldn't
32:22the last thing
32:23he shouted
32:23was Sean
32:36although it was
32:37a single stab wound
32:38the attack
32:39was particularly vicious
32:41requiring significant force
32:43to pierce
32:44through the chest.
32:45Cordelia
32:46was clearly
32:47enraged
32:48and intended
32:49to cause harm
32:50when she picked up
32:51the knife.
32:52So this has now
32:53become a murder
32:54investigation
32:55with Cordelia
32:56as the prime suspect
32:58and she's on the run
33:00is anyone else
33:01at risk?
33:03Scared the living
33:03die-loys out of my son
33:05I went after witnessing
33:06what he witnessed
33:07in there
33:07watching his uncle
33:08get murdered
33:09and then dying
33:10he was worried
33:11about her coming back.
33:17It's important
33:18to try and get hold
33:19of Cordelia
33:19as quickly as possible
33:20not only to ensure
33:22that she is in custody
33:23and can't cause
33:24any harm
33:25to anyone else
33:25but also she then
33:26can't cause harm
33:27to herself
33:27or destroy
33:28any further evidence.
33:33They've moved me
33:34and my partner
33:34to a hotel
33:36all they obviously
33:37was forensic evidence
33:39and everything
33:39like that.
33:42So the police
33:43would be doing
33:43their normal
33:44sort of inquiries
33:45of door-to-door
33:46speaking to friends
33:47and family
33:48looking at social media
33:50if she had a mobile phone
33:51and they'll be trying
33:52to track her through that
33:53and also any
33:54financial inquiries
33:55in certain locations
33:56that might help
33:57close the net
33:57and bring her into custody.
34:01Was Cordelia Farrell
34:03coming to terms
34:04with what she had done?
34:05I think that having killed
34:08somebody that clearly
34:10she was intimately involved with
34:13will have brought her
34:14face to face
34:15with the person
34:16that she has become
34:17and she now tries
34:19to run from that.
34:20She's not just running
34:21from the police
34:22she's running from
34:23the reality
34:24of what she has become.
34:30If somebody doesn't
34:31want to be found
34:32then it's fairly easy
34:34to go into hiding
34:36for a considerable
34:37period of time
34:38particularly if you
34:39effectively go off the grid
34:40you know
34:41you turn off your phone
34:42you're not on social media
34:43you're not in contact
34:45with friends and family
34:46you're just hiding out somewhere.
34:48Throughout the Midlands
34:49as pressure mounts
34:51on police
34:51to find Wayne's killer
34:52Farrell shocks detectives
34:55with her next murder.
34:56Five days into
34:58the investigation
35:00having discovered
35:01Wayne dead at that address
35:04Cordelia
35:05surprisingly
35:06gives herself up
35:07to the police.
35:11That's not unusual
35:12under the circumstances
35:13if the police
35:14have been putting
35:15a lot of pressure
35:16on friends and family
35:17who may have been
35:18in contact with Cordelia.
35:21But then eventually
35:22when the phone call
35:23came through
35:23to say that she'd
35:24been got
35:25it was a real life.
35:26The police
35:27still had a job to do.
35:29So having given
35:31herself up
35:31police would have
35:32secured Cordelia
35:33very quickly
35:34brought her into custody
35:35and they would have
35:36forensically examined her
35:38make sure that she
35:39hasn't got any injuries
35:40herself
35:40you know
35:41was there a fight
35:42has she got any
35:43defensive injuries
35:43that need to be recorded
35:45has she got any
35:47forensic evidence
35:48on her
35:48that would suggest
35:49she is responsible
35:50even though we've got
35:51eye witnesses
35:51that say she was
35:52she could still
35:53argue that
35:53and so is there
35:54any forensic evidence
35:55that we need to recover
35:56and also you know
35:57was she under the
35:57influence of alcohol
35:59or drugs at the time
36:00and so various samples
36:01would have been taken
36:02for analysis.
36:04With Cordelia
36:05in custody
36:06the police secured
36:07evidence
36:08and examined her
36:09for any injuries
36:10or signs of substance use
36:12while eyewitnesses
36:15pointed to her
36:16the investigation
36:17had to be thorough
36:18Farrell may have
36:20handed herself in
36:21but contrary to all
36:23the popular
36:24common sense myths
36:25she's not going to
36:27admit to murder
36:28and very few
36:29murderers actually do.
36:42The 37-year-old
36:44Cordelia Farrell
36:45has handed herself
36:47into the police
36:48but despite witnesses
36:50to the murder
36:50of Wayne Coventry
36:52the case will prove
36:53to be far from
36:55straightforward.
36:57When Cordelia
36:58is interviewed
36:59the officers put
37:00a number of questions
37:01to her
37:01and she wouldn't
37:02answer any questions
37:03and so the police
37:04are then left with
37:05well we've got
37:06Wayne dead
37:07we've got the brother
37:09who's a witness
37:09and we've got Cordelia
37:11who's been on the run
37:14the only assumption
37:15we can make from that
37:16is that she's murdered
37:16Wayne and she intended
37:17to kill him
37:19and so they go to
37:20the Crown Prosecution
37:21Service for an
37:22authority to charge
37:23her with murder
37:24of Wayne.
37:28Cordelia ordered up
37:29a plea for manslaughter
37:31as an alternative
37:32to the murder
37:35and what she's saying
37:36effectively is that
37:37she admits to being
37:38responsible for the
37:39killing of Wayne
37:40but that she didn't
37:41intend to do it
37:42and she didn't intend
37:43to cause him serious
37:44harm.
37:45It's an important
37:47legal distinction
37:48murder means life
37:51manslaughter can result
37:53in much less prison time.
37:54She just wanted to get
37:55away with it
37:56she knew she'd have
37:58gone guilty
37:58she'd have got longer
38:02I thought Delia's plea of
38:05not guilty was absolutely
38:06ridiculous
38:08she stabbed him
38:09and that
38:10so where can she plead
38:11not guilty
38:17and in fact what she said
38:19was that she was defending
38:20herself because at some
38:22stage Wayne had put a
38:23knife towards her back
38:26and so she grabbed this
38:27large kitchen knife the
38:29largest knife in the block
38:30and plunged it into Wayne's
38:32chest
38:34and the police have to try
38:36and disprove that
38:37if they can
38:38it's very difficult
38:40when you've got
38:40you know one person's
38:41word against another
38:42or when your victim
38:44is deceased
38:44and can't speak
38:45for themselves
38:46and so you do your best
38:48to try and get
38:48corroborative evidence
38:49and you know
38:50the police would be
38:51relying on
38:51bad character evidence
38:53where Cordelia
38:54had this violent
38:55outburst on Wayne
38:56only a month
38:57before the murder
38:59but obviously
39:00what Cordelia
39:01is also painting
39:01a picture of
39:02is that Wayne
39:02was violent
39:03and that she was
39:04merely defending
39:05herself
39:06and so it's quite
39:07tricky for juries
39:08sometimes to try
39:09and work their way
39:10through that information
39:11and decide effectively
39:12who's telling the truth
39:13and who's not
39:15Wayne's family
39:16would be chief
39:16witnesses in her trial
39:19well when I was
39:20giving my evidence
39:20understanding
39:21I seen Cordelia
39:22in the dark
39:23she was actually
39:24smiling at me
39:24as if it was
39:25something to laugh
39:26about
39:28she's got an
39:29evil streak
39:29in her
39:30definitely
39:32the jury
39:33is given
39:34an outline
39:34of events
39:35they hear about
39:37the non-molestation
39:38orders
39:38issued against
39:39Farrell
39:40even when she
39:41done them
39:42last two fingers
39:42to him
39:43she was still
39:44under the
39:44non-molestation
39:45so she could
39:45have gone
39:46to her
39:46honour of
39:46her man
39:47and that
39:54the moment
39:55arrives
39:56will it be
39:58murder
39:58or manslaughter
40:01Cordelia Farrell
40:03is convicted
40:03of manslaughter
40:04and sentenced
40:05to ten years
40:07for the killing
40:08of Wayne Coventry
40:09the judge instructed
40:11that she serve
40:12a minimum
40:12of seven and a half
40:14years
40:15Farrell was also
40:16given an 18 month
40:18sentence
40:18for aggravated
40:20bodily harm
40:20to run
40:21concurrently
40:23I think that
40:25the manslaughter
40:25verdict
40:26was a reflection
40:27of the fact
40:28that this
40:28was
40:29a voluntary
40:30relationship
40:31that the two
40:31were part of
40:32and that
40:34there were
40:34escalating
40:36episodes
40:36of violence
40:38that continued
40:39over a period
40:40of time
40:40therefore
40:42to some extent
40:43the manslaughter
40:44emerged
40:45out of that
40:46destructive
40:48relationship
40:52it wasn't enough
40:53nowhere near enough
40:56I expected
40:57to get
40:58at least
40:59round about
40:59the 20 year mark
41:01ten years
41:02was
41:03nothing
41:04I couldn't
41:05understand
41:07I don't know
41:07how someone
41:08can get away
41:08with that
41:10that just
41:10shows me
41:11that it's
41:12a dangerous
41:12person
41:12you're talking
41:13about
41:14and I think
41:15she should have
41:15got what she
41:16deserved
41:16instead of
41:17just the 10
41:17years
41:17that she got
41:19my brother's
41:20lost his life
41:21and I'm never
41:21going to see
41:21him again
41:22but yet
41:22she gets
41:23to walk
41:23free
41:23in seven
41:24and a half
41:24years
41:27it's wrong
41:30for the
41:30family
41:31the trial
41:32could have
41:32turned out
41:33worse
41:34a plea
41:34of self-defense
41:35might have
41:36seen Cordelia
41:37walk free
41:39but that claim
41:40was something
41:41the jury
41:41seems to have
41:42rejected
41:44the jury
41:45dismissed
41:46any possibility
41:47that Cordelia
41:48was defending
41:49herself
41:49and I think
41:50what kind of
41:51helped them
41:52come to that
41:53conclusion
41:53was that
41:54Cordelia
41:55didn't hang
41:56around
41:56you know
41:56this wasn't
41:57a reaction
41:58whereby
41:58oh no word
41:59what have I
41:59done
42:00I need to
42:01get Wayne
42:01some help
42:02she plunged
42:03the knife
42:03into him
42:04she removed
42:05it
42:05and then
42:05she ran
42:06away
42:06the sentencing
42:08decision
42:09is devastating
42:10for Wayne's
42:11family
42:12as they try
42:13to come to
42:13terms
42:14with their
42:14loss
42:16this is
42:17with all
42:17of our
42:17family apart
42:18it's totally
42:19destroyed
42:20me
42:20my partner
42:21and my son
42:21after what
42:22we went
42:23through
42:23we're all
42:24going through
42:25really bad
42:25mental health
42:26it's just
42:26hard
42:29and especially
42:30for an 11
42:30year old
42:31boy as well
42:32because he
42:33stood
42:33all the
42:33side
42:34of her
42:34when she
42:34put the
42:34knife
42:35in my
42:35brother
42:38I'm still
42:38upset over it
42:39I mean
42:42pictures that
42:43I've got
42:44they're all
42:44laid out
42:45on a table
42:46which is
42:46just Wayne
42:55is right
42:57by the
42:57side of
42:58my
42:59chair
43:00so I
43:01can see
43:02him every
43:02minute of
43:03the day
43:06for Sean
43:07spending time
43:08in the home
43:08where his
43:09brother lived
43:10brings a
43:11little
43:11consolation
43:13it's the
43:13last time
43:14I was
43:14with him
43:14I was
43:15here
43:15so
43:17looking
43:18to boy
43:18hopefully
43:19eventually
43:19yeah
43:21I've got
43:22his own
43:22little garden
43:23around the
43:23side of
43:23the house
43:24and then
43:24obviously
43:25he helped
43:25me build
43:25that gate
43:26where his
43:26plaque's
43:26on the
43:27gate
43:35for the
43:36men of
43:37the
43:37Coventry
43:37family
43:38their
43:39mission
43:39is
43:40clear
43:40to
43:41urge
43:42other
43:42men
43:42to
43:43break
43:43the
43:43silence
43:44and
43:44report
43:45abuse
43:46even
43:47when
43:47the
43:47abuser
43:48is
43:48a
43:49woman
43:51so
43:51if
43:52anybody
43:52is
43:52out
43:52there
43:52going
43:52through
43:53the
43:53same
43:53thing
43:53please
43:54get
43:54help
43:54or
43:54please
43:55listen
43:55to
43:55your
43:55family
43:55members
43:56or
43:56people
43:57that
43:57can
43:57see
43:57what's
43:58happening
43:58because
43:58they know
43:59a lot
43:59more
43:59than
44:00what
44:00you
44:00do
44:00I
44:01know
44:01it's
44:01hard
44:01but
44:02you
44:02need
44:02to
44:02try
44:02and
44:02listen
44:04I
44:04wish
44:04my
44:05brother
44:05had
44:05a
44:05done
44:05but
44:05he
44:06wouldn't
44:06be
44:06where
44:06he
44:06is
44:07now
44:09just
44:10missing
44:12and I
44:13know
44:13for a
44:13fact
44:13if
44:13he'd
44:14have
44:14survived
44:14this
44:14he
44:14probably
44:15still
44:15would have
44:15dropped
44:15the
44:16charges
44:17because
44:17that's
44:17the
44:17sort
44:18of
44:18person
44:18he was
44:18he loved it
44:19a bit
44:20and
44:21no one
44:21could
44:21say
44:21nothing
44:21different
44:24when
44:25he
44:25found
44:25the
44:25right
44:25person
44:26he
44:26wanted
44:26to
44:26be
44:26with
44:27them
44:27all
44:27the
44:27time
44:27he
44:28was
44:28that
44:28sort
44:29of
44:29person
44:29he
44:29wasn't
44:30one
44:30for
44:30cheating
44:30or
44:31going
44:31behind
44:31the
44:31backs
44:32or
44:32nothing
44:32he
44:33he
44:34was
44:34good
44:35he
44:35just
44:36loved
44:36her
44:36too
44:36much
44:37he
44:38knew
44:38that
44:38it
44:39weren't
44:39right
44:39but
44:39he
44:40just
44:41couldn't
44:41turn
44:41his
44:42head
44:42he
44:42couldn't
44:43get
44:43away
44:43from
44:44it
44:52because
44:52he
44:52was
44:53besotted
44:53with
44:54he
44:54couldn't
44:54act
44:55staying
44:55by
44:55himself
44:56he
44:57had
44:57to
44:57have
44:57somebody
44:58there
44:58and
44:59Delia
45:00happened
45:00to be
45:00the
45:00one
45:00he
45:01was
45:01with
45:01at
45:02the
45:02time
45:03Wayne
45:04smile
45:04was
45:05just
45:05contagious
45:11just
45:11like a
45:12Cheshire
45:12cat
45:14always
45:14grinning
45:15no
45:15matter
45:15what
45:15happened
45:16whether
45:16he
45:16was
45:17down
45:17he
45:17always
45:17had
45:18that
45:18smile
45:19always
45:20everyone
45:21used
45:21to
45:21go
45:21on
45:21about
45:21it
45:22was
45:22contagious
45:24no matter
45:25what was
45:25going on
45:26he
45:26always
45:27had
45:27it
45:30I
45:31miss him
45:31a lot
45:53was
45:53I
45:53had
46:18have
46:18love
46:18You
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