2015 and the latest case to come before Britain’s favourite television judge. In this episode, Ben Lacomba, a taxi driver from Kent, claimed he was owed rent by his former lodger, Leanne Edwards. Total amount £4,450 … Lacomba concocted their legal battle for the cameras. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s6e3
The answer lay in his relationship with another woman he’d first met a decade earlier, 33-year-old Sarah Wellgreen. ibid.
11 October 2018 9.55 a.m. It was a full 48 hours before Lacomba called 999. ibid.
The various CCTV cameras had captured Lacomba leaving the village of New Ash Green, driving towards remote countryside, then returning home two hours later. Detectives now believed he had killed Sarah inside the house and made this journey to dispose of her body. ibid.
* Dawn: Missing ‘I’ when he alleges she had ‘a bit of a weird life’ & signifies ownership of children & alleges promiscuity
* Cliff: Anxiety, squirming hands, arm, goes red, manipulates, no explanation = not signs of an innocent man
The beautiful rolling countryside of north Yorkshire. Here, the quiet village of Melsonby became the unlikely location of an horrific murder. More than a decade on a murder conviction still disputed. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s6e3: Robin Garbutt
On March 23rd 2010 at 8.30 a.m. Robin Garbutt rang 999 to report that Diana had been attacked during an armed robbery. Police and paramedics found that Diana Garbutt had been bludgeoned to death, not in the office office but in her bedroom on the first floor. And the emergency services were immediately surprised by Robin Garbutt’s behaviour. ibid.
Garbutt’s own words revealed more than he intended. ibid.
And this wasn’t the first time Robin Garbutt had reported a robbery. ibid.
Three weeks after the murder, Robin Garbutt was arrested and charged with killing Diana. ibid.
* Dawn: 999 call increase in pitch doesn’t match words
* Cliff: Manipulators increase (spike in anxiety) & little eye closure & hand shrugs & shoulders = lie
* D: Pauses & disfluencies
* C: Micro head shakes no
* C: When revisits bedroom clenches rists
Inverkip: Among the houses standing next to the water, Seacroft, home of Edward Cairney and his long-time partner Avril Jones. In 1995 Cairney was 53 and Jones, 35. That year a new occupant moved in with them, 15-year-old Margaret Fleming. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s6e4: Cairney & Jones
‘Harsh inappropriate brutal behaviour that she is being subjected to from people who are meant to be her carers.’ ibid.
By December 1999 Margaret was 19 year old. After this photo was taken, a week before Christmas that year, she was never seen in public again. Autumn 2016: For years, Avril Jones had been collecting disability payments on Margaret’s behalf. ibid.
When police visited Seacroft to check on Margaret, she was nowhere to be seen. ibid.
She knows that Margaret Fleming is not alive at this point. ibid.
Jones and Cairney stood trial for her murder in 2018 … Both were convicted of murder. ibid.
* Dawn: Past tense big red flag
* Cliff: Multiple blinks (unusual)
* C: (her) extensive headshakes, eye staring = suspicious & low volume & she is in retreat & single-sided shrug,
* C: (him) Arms clamped, moves away in chair, refuses to answer
In November 2007 Adrian and Kate Prout prepared to host a shoot on their 276 acres of land. But by the time it got underway, she was dead. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s6e4: Adrian Prout
On searching the house, police found Kate’s clothes, shoes, handbag, purse and passport all still there. ibid.
If the police were taken about by Prout’s apparent lack of concern, they were even more surprised to learn why he’d called 999. ibid.
So the reason why he actually called was because other people were calling him saying they were concerned. ibid. Dawn
Prout finally stood trial for murder at Bristol Crown Court. Despite the absence of Kate’s body, he was found guilty and jailed for Life with a minimum of 18 years. ibid
* Cliff: He’s clamped up, tense, manipulating, upper chest breathing & head shake no to claim of having concerns, more headshakes no
Two exceptional women, one manipulative man. The visual clues. The verbal slips. And the medical breakthrough that finally trapped the two-time killer. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s6e5: Ian Stewart
Now in 2010 Diane was reported to be dying. The caller her husband, Ian Stewart. He was careful to pinpoint the cause [fit]. But the truth was it had been a long time since Diane’s last epileptic fit. He seemed reluctant to resuscitate his dying wife. ibid.
‘This was a cold calculating murder.’ ibid. woman
He’d been very keen for her to be cremated. ibid. Kerry
Ian Stewart came to meet Helen Bailey because he was also bereaved. He was a widower. ibid. Kerry
Ian Stewart and Helen moved in together using her money to buy a £1.2 million home in Hertfordshire. Just 4 miles from the house where Stewart had killed his wife 3 years earlier. ibid.
Helen also rewrote her will making Stewart sole beneficiary of her £4 million estate. ibid.
Then all of a sudden Helen disappears. ibid. Kerry
It took Ian Stewart 4 days to report her missing. ibid.
Next, that trip to the tip. ibid.
* Dawn: Uses past tense,
* Cliff: He seems unconcerned but anxiety in body: breathing from upper chest
* C: 5 indicators: 8 rapid blinks & manipulators many, disfluences & headshake no, micro shoulder shrug
* C: Duping delight at end of interview
* C: Micro headshake, a confession
*C: (back of rozzers’ car) panic, fear eyes, upper chest breathing, single sided shoulder shrug when saying ‘what a load of crap’
3 May 2016 4:06 p.m. Yes, my love. My daughter’s been missing for 48 hours. We have just been up to Milton Keynes, to her partner, and he says he doesn’t know where she is. It’s Natalie Hemming. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s7e1: Paul Hemming
Immediately, Natalie’s mother knew that there was something very very wrong here. For her daughter to go missing, there’s got to be some foul play at work, and there’s only one person that would spring to mind: Paul Hemming. ibid. Kerry
His body language struggled to hide the truth. ibid.
After a decade of violent abuse, Natalie Hemming had finally had enough. ibid.
Paul Hemming was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life. ibid.
* Cliff: Tension, gestural retreat, micro headshake no, fake upset: brows down, no tears, tries to poke eyes,
* Dawn: No concern & volume drugs
* C: Micro headshake x6, checks officer, mouth getting drug, bpm gets angry with rolling in of lips, pathetic story, gestural retreat
Cliff: There’s a piece of CCTV footage and you’ll see two characters. One wearing blue in front and she’s walking towards us – that’s Heather. And at the back, we have someone in the shadows in dark clothing with a hood over his head, and that’s Martin Corns. He was lurking in the background. He’s like the Grim Reaper. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s7e1: Martin Corns
Heather Jordan leaves home for her early-morning cleaning shift at a nearby shop. Her route takes her through the local park. ibid. captions
‘She was overpowered and she was strangled.’ ibid. man
Martin Corns was 52, so 18 years older than Heather, and he was divorced, and he also rented out a room to Heather’s father. ibid. Kerry
He continued to pursue her in ways that were fixated and intrusive. So he sent her over 2,000 text messages. ibid. Kerry
And then Martin Corns’ behaviour became even more disturbing. ibid.
He strangles her to death. ibid. Kerry
* Cliff: Props of phone & ciggie, leaning back & single-sided handshrug & headshake no = not true & upper chest breathing & pause & pitch increase & checks officer
* Dawn: Multiple ‘she’ instead of using her name