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THEY RAP: # Check this
Look, all right

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# Trick or treat, smell my feet

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# Give me something good to eat
Ah, ah

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# If you hear "Knock, knock"
and you got that stock... #

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This programme contains
very strong language and themes
some viewers may find upsetting

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She was just a crazy young girl,
full of life.

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Feared nothing, feared nothing.

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LAUGHTER ON VIDEO

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If anybody could hold their own,
Angel could.

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So long, Angel, now. There you go.

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Looks beautiful.

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Head up.

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Angel knows what you're saying
to her,

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but she's just trapped
within herself.

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She can't... She can't express it,
she can't get it out.

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I want up for yes,
thumbs down for no,

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do you understand?

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Yeah?

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Are you feeling good...or bad?

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You're feeling good today.
That's good.

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We try and communicate with her
in the best ways that we can.

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You know how we're doing
the documentary, Angel?

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Yeah? You know?

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Here you go, hold your pen.

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Do you want everybody
to understand your life

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and then what happened to ya?

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Can you write it on there,
so that I know?

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Is that OK?

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I want to tell your story, Angel...
Look at me.

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..so that this doesn't happen
to anybody else.

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Angel's phone was always glued
to her hand.

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She kept everything on there -
all her photos, messages.

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The only way we could find out
what had happened

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was to go through her phone.

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But she had a whole world
we knew nothing about.

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OVERLAPPING VIDEOS AND TEXT ALERTS

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MUSIC PLAYS ON VIDEO

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I remember us getting phones.

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It was nice being able
to have group chats and stuff

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with all your friends
and joke around.

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When she first got a phone,

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it was like she had a bit
of her own independence.

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It was nice but a bit scary,

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when they start getting
to that age, really.

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At college, we both passed
our driving test.

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We both wanted to be in our cars
and just drive around.

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ANGEL:Going to beat you, Blem!
SHE LAUGHS

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It was always McDonald's
drive-through.

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It was amazing cos both of our mums
were quite strict,

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like not letting us go out
in the dark and stuff.

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We enjoyed being able to get out
and explore.

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It's like the world's opened.

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SHE RAPS: # Jeez, my girl
whipping a Mercedes... #

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She was at college full-time
when she came to work at the Brush.

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And I think it was just to earn
a little bit of extra money.

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She was introduced as a new cleaner.

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She had long nails and she had
the most amazing blonde hair.

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I'll be very honest - I thought,
"What is a 17-year-old

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"going to know about cleaning on
an industrial site?

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"Are our managers taking the mick?"

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And I thought, "Don't put her
with me to work, please!"

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They did put her with me
and she proved me wrong.

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She looked like a little glamour
queen, but the truth be known,

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she was not afraid to get
her hands dirty at all.

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If anybody was going to do
the dirty jobs, Angel was.

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She was always doing something
that would get us in trouble.

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ON VIDEO: What are you doing
in the recycling wet paper bin?
Sorting it out!

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I couldn't find her -

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she'd climbed into the recycling bin
and hid.

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ON VIDEO: You do know I'm going
to post this on Facebook

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for your managers to see, don't ya?

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She was just a crazy young girl -
full of life, fun.

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ON VIDEO: The life and time of Angel
at work at the Brush.

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Did it!

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On her 18th, I filled her car up
with paper shreddings

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in the car park.

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We got in trouble for it, though,
cos we made a mess.

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It was hilarious.

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From then, we was inseparable
at work.

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We both got boyfriends that were
in the same friendship group.

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Her relationship was amazing.

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He would go around her house
all the time,

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she would go around his,
meet his family,

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they'd all do
family things together.

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I'd try and be watching telly,

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and they'd sit on the sofa, just
pinching and punching each other.

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I were like, "Shut up and get out
cos I'm trying to watch TV!"

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They had a really good relationship
like that.

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And she was happy,

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Shame they separated, really.

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Naturally, she just pulled away
from the friendship group,

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cos obviously it was awkward
for her.

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Not only did she, like,
lose her boyfriend,

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she kind of lost
the whole friendship group.

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She went through
the emotions of breaking up

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and then started
to get back out there.

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And that's when she met Chay,
which changed her life.

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Angel, how do ya?

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I didn't really like Chay
from the beginning.

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He didn't have a job.
Angel's always had a job.

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I was told that he was...a bad one

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and that he used to steal cars
and motorbikes.

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Angel always made out that
she weren't going out with him.

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She said they were just friends
and they just hung around together.

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With her first boyfriend,

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she didn't really used
to hide anything from us.

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We knew she was going out with him,
we knew where she was.

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But everything changed
when she met Chay.

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She used to tell fibs...

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..so she must have been
ashamed of him,

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probably because
he weren't a good boy.

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Oi!
HE LAUGHS

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Come on!

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LAUGHTER
Angel!

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Hello!

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Boo!
ANGEL LAUGHS

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It broke me heart, because
me and Angel was always close.

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Angel! Hello!

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As soon as we found out
it was a girl,

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I just said, "We'll call her Angel."

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And she's always been me angel.

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She was just Daddy's girl.

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Angel's always been fun and bubbly
and adventurous...

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THEY SCREAM AND LAUGH

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..probably cos she hung around
with her brothers a lot.

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Angel always used to like doing
dangerous things like quadding.

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And she'd always want to go
jet skiing and sky diving.

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ANGEL: No, it's nothing.
Stick ya tongue out!

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She always wanted to do the things
that were scary.

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She would do anything
and get involved in anything.

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We could've got through there.

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And she liked derelict buildings.

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She used to go with her brothers.

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This is mad!

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She loved, like,
investigating things.

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Check that big horn thing!

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THEY LAUGH

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Oh, my God!

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Do you want to play a game?

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No cheating.

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Here's your pen.

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You go first.

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She really did want...
She did want a life.

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You know, she worked hard,
she did.

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It's horrible, because I think,
"What if?"

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What if Angel realised
what he was like?

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Angel always wanted to be
a forensic scientist

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and work for the police.

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She was very ambitious.

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I think she would have been
attracted to the thrill of it all.

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She just liked the adrenaline.

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But when she met Chay, all ambitions
just went down the drain.

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She didn't really
want to do anything.

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She just wanted to be with him
all the time.

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She was doing the public services
college course,

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sort of a lead-up to making
a decision on what you want to do.

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And they get these trips and only
something like three get picked.

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Cos Angel was doing so well,
she got a place.

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You get to work alongside
the police.

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But she turned it down
because it meant going away -

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and by this time, she was with him.

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I told Angel, "He's not
the right one for you, Angel."

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But Angel - being Angel -
told me to mind my own business

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and everything was all right.

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It would have been a really good
opportunity for her, that would.

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Would have probably changed...

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Changed her life.

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That's when things started
to get worse.

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How do ya? How do ya?
How do ya, Angel?

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Wherever he went, she went with him.

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I think he sort of used her
a little bit as well for driving.

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You know, they just used to go
from hotel to hotel.

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HE RAPS UNINTELLIGIBLY

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Get the fuck...
THEY LAUGH

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At that age, you can't really say,

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"You're not doing this
and you're not doing that."

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She had her own car.
Can't ground her.

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I just felt helpless.

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She got a tattoo on her ankle
that says "Chay".

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She wanted both excitement and love,

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and that's probably what she thought
she was getting at the start.

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I was told he used to steal cars...

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..and he finally got caught.

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When Chay was in prison,

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I was hoping that she'd see sense
and get rid of him.

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But it didn't work out like that.

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It seemed that Angel was just
constantly running around after him,

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sending him money.

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She'd come in for six o'clock
in the afternoon

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because he would phone her.

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He'd phone her on house phones,
so he knew that she was at home.

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I just used to make fun of it
at the time -

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like, "Oh, OK, he's in prison

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"and you've got to be in
at six o'clock?"

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There was never a situation
when she wasn't there.

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She made sure she was there,
so then you think,

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"Wow, she's 18. Six o'clock?"

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You don't realise till after
how serious it was.

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The controlling had started.

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ANGEL SINGS BADLY

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THEY LAUGH

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I weren't too happy
when he got out of prison,

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cos obviously they were
together again.

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CHAY: Trying to suck your toes,
you fucking weirdo!

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It's when Covid was really bad
as well,

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so she stopped at his house
all the time.

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I do think she did love him,

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so it was a bit easier, then,
for him to control her.

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TEXT ALERTS

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It was my daughter's birthday
and I'd been out and got a cake.

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I said to Angel,
"Will you take me to Leicester?"

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She said, "Yeah, 'course I will."

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That morning, I got the cake
and the presents and everything else

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and she came.

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She noticed him on a back road
in another vehicle.

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I said, "Well, how would he know
you were coming this way?"

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TEXT ALERT

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All the way to Leicester,
the phone calls

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and the messages never stopped
from the minute she picked me up.

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TEXT ALERT

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I said, "What is wrong with him?"

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He called her a slag,
he called her a tramp,

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because she'd gone into
my daughter's house,

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where there were boys.

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It was quite distressing.
It was alarming.

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TEXT ALERT

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I started to question
what was going on.

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And I told her,
"Are you sure you're OK?

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"Because I will go to your mum
and dad, you know,

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"if I think you're not."
She said, "Yeah, 'course I am."

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It was beyond vile. I was shocked.

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He would message her
wherever she was -

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message, message, message, message.

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All the time, her phone was lit up.

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Where is Betty Boo Boo?

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VOICE: Betty.
Mmm!

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Can you find Tilly?

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Where is she, then?
Where's Trotter?

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Tilly.
Yeah!

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We're just a strong family, really.

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She's probably got it off me
and her mum.

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So we've got...Something's Wrong,
I Want, Quick Words, People.

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I Want.

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She'd probably talk to her mum more
than talk to me.

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00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:09,080
They are very like each other.

248
00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,000
Yeah, they've both got
the same sense of humour.

249
00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:15,240
They know how to wind me up,
both of them do.

250
00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:19,880
Oh, she's a bit fatty!

251
00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:21,720
SHE LAUGHS

252
00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,840
Who's this? Tilly Trotter!

253
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,080
You love Tilly, don't you?

254
00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:40,880
I thought we had that relationship
where she would tell us anything.

255
00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:41,960
She's my daughter,

256
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,760
and if she confides in me,
I'm not going to tell anybody.

257
00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:50,360
When she starts not coming to you
and telling you things

258
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,560
and she's more...

259
00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:56,680
..more distant,
it was really worrying.

260
00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,320
Got up just as normal,
like we would any morning.

261
00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:09,560
Got the kids sorted for school.

262
00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,640
Paddy was in the kitchen. I think
he was making something to eat.

263
00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:28,360
Angel had come in the house
to get some money for Chay.

264
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:35,760
He came in after,
shouting and swearing about £80.

265
00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:39,800
And I heard Paddy say,
"Watch who you're talking to."

266
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,680
Chay was supposed to have
gave Angel some money to look after

267
00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,720
and he said Angel spent it.

268
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:46,440
So rather him shout at Angel,

269
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,040
I just says, "How much was it?"
And I gave him the money.

270
00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,920
Oh, Nikki just told him where to go.

271
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,000
I said, "Don't come in here
swearing and shouting

272
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:58,720
"in front of my kids,"
and Angel come towards me

273
00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:02,960
and sort of, like, walked me
into the living room and said,

274
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:07,120
"Pack it in now, Mum, or you're just
going to make things worse."

275
00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:08,720
I didn't think, "Make what worse?"

276
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:10,080
Oi!
HE LAUGHS

277
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,560
We should have thought then,
"I wonder if he's hitting her."

278
00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,440
They was arguing in his bedroom.

279
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,400
Someone had heard a bang.

280
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:08,800
He pushed Angel so hard

281
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:12,680
that her head hit the wall
and sent her into a fit.

282
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:21,160
Someone could hear him shouting,
"Get up, you fucking slag!

283
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:22,360
"Do ya want a bit more?"

284
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,560
INTERVIEWER: What's the hardest part
of it for you?

285
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:33,920
Knowing that he hurt her.

286
00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:58,720
We'd go down the allotment
early morning,

287
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:00,840
myself and Bob and the dogs.

288
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,600
It was the middle of
the growing season,

289
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,720
so we've always got endless amounts
to do.

290
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:08,840
I think it was about half eight,
nine o'clock,

291
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:10,560
my phone rings and it was Angel.

292
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,000
And she said, "Oh, I'll come down
to you." I said, "OK."

293
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,840
Within about 10-15 minutes,
she was there.

294
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,720
I went towards the gates
and I saw Angel.

295
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:24,800
She had a pair of Ugg boots on,
a pair of tracky bottoms

296
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,800
and a fur coat. It was red hot.

297
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,440
No eyelashes, no make-up,
no nothing, and that wasn't Angel.

298
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,680
Whether she was coming to the Brush
or to the allotment,

299
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:38,520
she'd still be dolled up.
You know, it wasn't like her at all.

300
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,240
I said to her, "You're up early."
She said, "Oh.

301
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,280
"Chay found some messages
in my phone

302
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,000
"and he threw me out of the house."

303
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,720
I think I gave her, like,
a bit of a pep talk,

304
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:53,120
like, "You don't need to be there,

305
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,840
"being thrown out of somebody's
house at 7 o'clock in the morning.

306
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,640
"You've got your own home.
You've got your mum's home."

307
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:08,520
You try to be the friend that's not
the dogmatic, dictating friend.

308
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,640
You just try and be a good friend,
don't ya?

309
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:17,600
Now I realise why she wouldn't
take the coat off -

310
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,600
because she had bruises
all up her arms.

311
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,240
She knew that I wasn't happy
with the whole relationship.

312
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,560
I'd see her on nights out and stuff.

313
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:41,160
We always said hello,
but we never really hung out.

314
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,480
I could tell that she'd changed.

315
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:50,560
She'd never post on Instagram,
wear nice clothes -

316
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:54,040
which wasn't like Angel, cos she
always used to want to look nice.

317
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,320
She rang me, and she was just like,
"Are you OK?"

318
00:25:59,360 --> 00:26:02,240
And I was like, "Yeah, are you?"
Then she was like, "Yeah."

319
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,640
It was a really weird conversation.

320
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:11,600
I do feel like she wanted
to tell me something.

321
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:16,560
I just feel like in that moment that
she just quickly decided not to.

322
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,280
I think she wanted to get out of
the whole situation.

323
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,240
I feel like if she felt like
she had everyone around her

324
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,680
that was with her
before she met him,

325
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:31,320
then maybe she would have felt
strong enough to leave.

326
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,120
SIREN BLARES

327
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,280
I feel like she was made to believe
that if she left him,

328
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:00,000
she wouldn't have anyone else.

329
00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:23,680
In the end, he had complete control.

330
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,000
He would threaten to leave
just to make her beg.

331
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,600
She must have felt so trapped.

332
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,040
On the Wednesday
before her accident,

333
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:09,440
she'd had a chat with Chay's mum,
saying that they was separating.

334
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,320
That's when we got our nails done...

335
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,120
..and she had her hair done.

336
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:23,880
You see the change.

337
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:27,600
The make-up comes out...

338
00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:31,680
..she goes out for dinner
with her friends,

339
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,480
she goes out and does what
she used to with her brothers.

340
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,280
I think this relationship
was about to end.

341
00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,680
I think she was seeing
what he was really like

342
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,960
and I think this is why
what happened happened.

343
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:06,440
She'd had enough of him.

344
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,520
He knew that she was about ready
to blow him out.

345
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,600
Chay bundled her into the van
and his mate Rocco was driving.

346
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,200
NEWSREADER: She fell
from the vehicle at 60mph.

347
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,440
She suffered catastrophic
brain injury.

348
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:09,920
This is where Angel's come out
of the van.

349
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,840
So, I think
she's come out about here...

350
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,640
SHE SIGHS

351
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,560
..and he said she was rolling down
the road like a football.

352
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,600
SHE SIGHS

353
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:02,800
They took me and Paddy upstairs.
They said, "She's in ICU."

354
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,600
When they opened the curtain
to let me in,

355
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,560
I just fell on the floor.

356
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:17,920
Her head was all swollen and
she was on all different machines.

357
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:20,840
Just horrible.

358
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,760
As soon as Angel arrived
in hospital,

359
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:36,240
it was very clear she'd suffered
very severe injuries.

360
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,640
This is the CT scan of Angel's head.

361
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,760
This area here is fractured.

362
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,480
Like, it's been split open
by the force of the impact.

363
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:49,960
And the fracture continues on
into other parts of the skull.

364
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:55,000
To fracture the skull to that degree
takes an incredible degree of force.

365
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,480
Her injury was so devastating
and so severe

366
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:01,760
that there was a very real chance
that Angel wouldn't survive.

367
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:12,280
The doctor said, "You're gonna have
to accept she isn't gonna make it."

368
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,040
And I said, "Do not touch
them machines.

369
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:16,600
"Keep her breathing."

370
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:23,000
FAHREN: Come on, Angel. I think it's
time to come out of this coma, mate.

371
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,760
You're the strongest girl I've
ever met in my whole entire life.

372
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:32,320
LOTTIE: Yo, my G.
It's Lotswold, your main bitch!

373
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:37,000
We've got too many memories together
for you to leave me.

374
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,440
You best be fucking listening to me,
all right?

375
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,360
I love you, Angel.
Please get through this.

376
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:10,240
I come up here every Thursday,

377
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,720
cos it were a Thursday
when Angel's accident was.

378
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,200
Which one is healing?

379
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,800
All right, put that one back.
We'll have the big one.

380
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:27,040
Thank you.

381
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,840
The doctors were saying that
we needed a miracle.

382
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,360
And I thought the miracle
would happen...

383
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:56,600
..and it did.

384
00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:02,320
For them to tell me
she's not in a coma any more

385
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,160
was one of the happiest days
of me life, really.

386
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,840
At the beginning, Angel would
breathe for herself

387
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,440
for just a few seconds.

388
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:20,440
Then it would get to a minute on her
own without help from the machines,

389
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,240
and then they took the machine off

390
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,040
and she was just breathing
for herself.

391
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,640
Nikki and Angel are Catholics.

392
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,520
I'm not Catholic, but I prayed.

393
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,080
And even though she was still
really poorly,

394
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,720
I just thought,
"God's answered my prayers."

395
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,880
The CID had come out to see us.

396
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:59,080
They told us that Chay had been
arrested and he'd been kicking off.

397
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,000
We couldn't believe it -

398
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:30,440
he was trying to deny
kidnapping Angel.

399
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,800
He was saying he was looking out
for her

400
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,840
and he was doing what was best
for her.

401
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,800
And he says he didn't push her
out the van.

402
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,280
I don't think she jumped.

403
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:54,720
She's a driver herself,
she knows how fast it were going,

404
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,880
so why not wait till you slowed down
at the roundabout

405
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,360
and jump on the grass verge?

406
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,280
Just don't make sense to me at all.

407
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:06,680
Not one bit.

408
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:15,840
I think he's pushed her out the van.

409
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,320
Angel was still really poorly
at the time...

410
00:36:40,720 --> 00:36:44,200
..so she couldn't tell her side
of the story.

411
00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:47,400
My biggest fear would be that
Chay would walk free

412
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,040
and get away with what he'd done.

413
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,760
Over and above
the very serious offences

414
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,840
that Mr Bowskill was facing -

415
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,920
kidnap, perverting the course
of justice

416
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:15,120
and the controlling
and coercive behaviour -

417
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,600
he was on trial
for being responsible

418
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:22,160
for Angel coming out of that van
at a high speed

419
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:26,280
and suffering the horrendous
injuries that she did.

420
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,480
He gave evidence,

421
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:32,400
but there wasn't ever
a full acknowledgement

422
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,400
that he had been responsible.

423
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,680
It was heart-breaking
to listen to the court

424
00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:42,040
and things that were said.

425
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,520
Even if she did jump,
what was she jumping from?

426
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,960
I don't believe she jumped,
no, I don't,

427
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,840
but regardless my friend's
still got head injuries.

428
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:57,720
And it's life-changing.

429
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:10,080
He also told the jury Angel wasn't
controlled or put down by him.

430
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,040
But there was a series of messages

431
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,200
between Chay Bowskill
on the one side

432
00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:21,880
and the phone or phones
that Angel was using on the other,

433
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:25,960
and that ran to many thousands
of separate communications

434
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,640
that the jury had to consider.

435
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:38,520
The text messages,
his own words, were an example

436
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,640
of how somebody is
controlling the other

437
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:45,760
and coercing them through the medium
of messages.

438
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,920
Ultimately, they proved the type
of person he was

439
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:52,680
in that relationship with Angel.

440
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:02,720
In court, we did hear a lot
of things that we didn't know,

441
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:08,880
and I just had to keep walking
out of court at some stages

442
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,920
cos I just couldn't bear to listen

443
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,000
to what he'd actually
put her through.

444
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,320
Oi!
HE LAUGHS

445
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:22,120
It's scary to think that
she was on this road.

446
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,360
He must have got under her skin.

447
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,280
If somebody's telling you
every day of the week

448
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:32,360
you're a slag and a tramp,
when does it not get to ya?

449
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:02,880
Those calls were extremely important
as part of the prosecution case,

450
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,840
not just for those accounts
that they directly related

451
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,120
but also to the much bigger picture

452
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:12,840
and a real window
into the man he was.

453
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:30,000
It was telling that this was
a man who was charged with

454
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,400
controlling and coercive behaviour,

455
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:38,400
and we saw echoes and shades of that
in his own treatment of his mother,

456
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,840
what we say he was doing
towards Angel.

457
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:52,520
He was sentenced to a total of
seven and a half years in prison.

458
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,760
But in terms of the impact upon her,

459
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,680
the Court of Appeal decided that
the sentence was too low

460
00:40:59,720 --> 00:41:02,600
to reflect consequences
of this nature,

461
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:06,920
and what they did was to increase
the overall sentence

462
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,760
to one of 12 years.

463
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,840
It felt like justice a bit, yeah,

464
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:21,080
but I still think he deserved longer
for what he's done to Angel.

465
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,120
Touch your right eye.

466
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:32,600
Next, I want you to touch your nose,

467
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:34,160
and then your left ear.

468
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:37,960
Yeah, really good.

469
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,800
You're doing really well
at these ones.

470
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,600
I really want to say,
"Right, Angel, what did he do?

471
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:48,760
"And why did you feel
you couldn't come home

472
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,800
"and just get rid of him?"

473
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:58,160
Whether he pushed her or not,
we won't know until Angel speaks.

474
00:41:58,200 --> 00:41:59,560
High five.

475
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:02,880
Smashing it!

476
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,160
You see? You're too good!

477
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,520
It can be very difficult early on
in people with severe head injuries

478
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,320
to estimate how people will be
six months,

479
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,880
a year, two years down the line.

480
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,640
A combination of the neurosurgery,
the intensive care support,

481
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:21,560
you know, Angel's strength
and determination

482
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:23,600
have led to her surviving.

483
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:30,280
And she clearly has mounted a degree
of recovery from her injuries.

484
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,160
You will get there, you know?

485
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:41,520
You've come so far in the last year.

486
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,560
She does have age on her side.
She's a young woman

487
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,000
and we know younger people
do recover better

488
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,520
from even devastating injuries
such as this.

489
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,640
You know, I'd hope that
as the months and years go by,

490
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,360
that she may regain some function
to enable her

491
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:59,240
to interact and communicate
her thoughts and feelings better.

492
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:00,760
I love you.

493
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,880
Ah, I know you do, baby.
Two, yeah.

494
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,240
Go on. You can do it.

495
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:24,440
Good girl.

496
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:27,320
She's so tough, Angel is,

497
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,880
to have got through everything
she has got through.

498
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:36,400
And I just do believe
miracles can happen.

499
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,800
And a miracle has happened,
cos Angel's still with us.

500
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,560
You make me happy when you give me
a smile, don't you?

501
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:52,640
It's coming!
SHE LAUGHS

502
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:54,400
Sneaking one out!

503
00:43:58,120 --> 00:43:59,120
Love you.

504
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,040
CHATTER

505
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:24,800
It's really difficult,

506
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:29,080
because I think,
"What if I'd have known?

507
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:32,960
"And what if Angel realised
what he was like?

508
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,240
"We wouldn't be
in this position now."

509
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,320
You know when you know
something is wrong,

510
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,000
but you haven't done
anything about it

511
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,440
and you should've done
and you could've done?

512
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:49,280
That's the hardest one
for all of us.

513
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:56,320
I do have loads of regrets -

514
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,520
that maybe if I just listened
to her more

515
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,760
or gave her the opportunity
to speak to me more

516
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,040
and not just distance myself,

517
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:08,080
maybe I would have been able
to help.

518
00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:21,480
You just... Looking back now,
you think...

519
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,720
SIGHS: .."I should've
seen that coming,"

520
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:25,160
but I didn't.

521
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,440
I wouldn't want anyone to think,

522
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,680
"Oh, you've got to be stupid
to let someone control you,"

523
00:45:34,720 --> 00:45:38,320
because Angel was far from stupid.

524
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:42,560
For this to have happened to Angel,
it can happen to anybody.

525
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:50,360
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