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Serial Killer Documentary - Zahid Zaman： The Ring Leader of Death · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: In February twenty sixteen, CCTV on a residential street in
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Speaker 1: North Shields, Tyne and Weir in the north of England
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Speaker 1: captured forty three year old Jimmy Prout being manhandled by
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Speaker 1: a group of locals. Just three days after this footage
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Speaker 1: was captured, Jimmy would be dead.
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Speaker 2: The CCTV images are very clear. They show his rapid
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Speaker 2: decline in health, the fact that he's being manipulated and
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Speaker 2: controlled by other people. It's clear he's just being used
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Speaker 2: as some sort of punching bag.
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Speaker 1: The women shoving Jimmy were all loyal followers of a
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Speaker 1: man who led a cult like group in the small
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Speaker 1: neighborhood forty three year old Zahid za Man.
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Speaker 3: The level of terror and torture it is subjected Jimmy
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Speaker 3: Prout too over a prolonged period of time. This was
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Speaker 3: a profoundly challenged man who needed help, but he fell
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Speaker 3: into the hands.
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Speaker 4: Of the devil.
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Speaker 1: For four months, Jimmy Prout was brutally tortured and humiliated
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Speaker 1: by Za Man and his devotees before the poisonous sect imploded,
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Speaker 1: all pointing the finger of suspicion.
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Speaker 4: At each other.
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Speaker 5: Ultimately, the evidence demonstrated beyond doubts that zahid's a Man
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Speaker 5: was the central heart of this group and that he
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Speaker 5: was the ringleader behind the violence that was used towards Jimmy.
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Speaker 1: Zaheed's a Man, the false Prophet, had been exposed as
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Speaker 1: one of the world's most evil killers. In June twoenty seventeen,
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Speaker 1: Zahid za Man was on trial for the murder of
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Prout. Zaman and his friends Kay Rayworth, Merah Wood
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Speaker 1: and Anne Corbett had slowly tortured forty three year old
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Speaker 1: Jimmy after Zaman had apparently recruited him to his cult.
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Speaker 4: Like clan.
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Speaker 1: Paul Greeney led the prosecution against the group.
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Speaker 5: There are a combination of factors that make this case
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Speaker 5: so particularly disturbing. First of all, the fact that a
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Speaker 5: vulnerable man was subject to grotesque beatings over a period
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Speaker 5: of time and to other humiliations, the fact that Zahid
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Speaker 5: z a Man was able to persuade others to engage
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Speaker 5: in those beatings, and the fact that it was all
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Speaker 5: to do with something that was so trivial.
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Speaker 1: Zaman believed Jimmy had been involved in the theft of
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Speaker 1: some of his tools, and it's led the forty three
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Speaker 1: year old to turn on the vulnerable father of two.
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Speaker 1: Journalist Jeremy Armstrong covered the trial at Newcastle Crown Court.
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Speaker 6: When you listen to cases like this which are so
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Speaker 6: extreme and the nature of the violence is so extreme,
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Speaker 6: and you know, to use torture in any context is inexplicable.
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Speaker 6: But some man was just a particularly evil man who
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Speaker 6: enjoyed manipulating people and using violence to control people. And
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Speaker 6: there was no good reason to do that to Jimmy,
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Speaker 6: above and beyond the fact that he could.
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Speaker 5: I've been involved in cases that have involved truly terrible killings,
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Speaker 5: so I've seen some bad people, and Zahetes a man
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Speaker 5: is up there, one of quite possibly the most manipulative,
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Speaker 5: controlling and terrible people I've ever encountered.
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Speaker 1: This killer's story begins on the nineteenth of December nineteenth
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Speaker 1: seventy three. But not much is known about Zaheed's a
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Speaker 1: Man's past.
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Speaker 3: It'll be fair to say that Zaman's background is fairly shadowy.
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Speaker 3: We do know that he lived in Sheffield. He was,
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Speaker 3: according to him, injured at one point in a quote
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Speaker 3: serious traffic accident.
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Speaker 5: We knew that he had joined dating websites, and we
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Speaker 5: knew that he had posted extravagant claims about himself on
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Speaker 5: those websites, for example posting photographs of himself alongside gold bullying.
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Speaker 7: This tells me this is somebody who wants to put
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Speaker 7: across the idea that he's wealthy, but money is something
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Speaker 7: that is.
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Speaker 3: Important to him.
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Speaker 1: It was a tactic that worked. By two thousand and five,
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Speaker 1: thirty one year olds a man had met a woman
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Speaker 1: from north Shields near Newcastle, forty four year old Kay Rayworth.
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Speaker 6: They began a relationship after me non fierce, but must
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Speaker 6: have been reasonably serious for him to move all the
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Speaker 6: way from Sheffield.
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Speaker 7: The man was most definitely not genuinely looking for love.
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Speaker 7: I think when he came across Rayworth and realized that
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Speaker 7: she had property, that parasite within him activated and he decided, right,
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Speaker 7: I'm going to go up there. I'm going to move
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Speaker 7: in with her, and I'm going to state my claim
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Speaker 7: on the things that she has.
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Speaker 1: North Shield's resident Helen O'Keefe was an acquaintance of ray Worths.
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Speaker 8: A non care for a long time. And you are
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Speaker 8: before she got involved with it with z as we
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Speaker 8: call them, and you were before that. She was decent Oh,
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Speaker 8: she was a Kira. She was lovely, she was a
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Speaker 8: genuine names person was and that all changed once she
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Speaker 8: got involved with him. She seemed more withdrawn and she
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Speaker 8: did lose a lot of contact with people.
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Speaker 1: A man settled into the area and soon had a
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Speaker 1: notorious reputation around the town.
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Speaker 5: I don't recall that there was evidence that established that
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Speaker 5: the head's a man worked at any stage during the
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Speaker 5: time that he lived in the North Shields area. There
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Speaker 5: was evidence that he claimed benefits, causing real difficulties for
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Speaker 5: those that benefits office. There was evidence that he relied
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Speaker 5: upon charities, again treating those who worked for the charity
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Speaker 5: in an unpleasant way.
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Speaker 2: There did seem to be this perception of fear of him.
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Speaker 2: On one occasion, you know, neighbors did report that he
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Speaker 2: was seen hitting k with his stick.
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Speaker 7: That tells me that the man thinks that this is
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Speaker 7: something completely reasonable to do.
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Speaker 4: He doesn't see it.
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Speaker 7: As something that is unacceptable, as something that is illegal.
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Speaker 7: So his behavior towards her is very revere about his
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Speaker 7: kind of boundaries around what's acceptable and what's not acceptable.
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Speaker 1: Those boundaries would continue to be pushed z A man's
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Speaker 1: physical health appeared to deteriorate. He went from walking with
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Speaker 1: crutches to being wheelchair bound, but rumors amongst locals suggest
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Speaker 1: he may have been embellishing his injuries.
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Speaker 3: He certainly had the ability to spin a good story.
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Speaker 3: I think he probably convinced a lot of people that
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Speaker 3: he was a lot more disabled than he was. The
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Speaker 3: locals in his area of North Shields found in argumentative,
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Speaker 3: tempestuous and also, to put it politely, a fraud because
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Speaker 3: they said it couldn't walk, And yet a couple of
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Speaker 3: them actually remember him running for a bus.
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Speaker 8: That's a miracle. It was just it was just a
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Speaker 8: standard thing with him. Oh yes, the miracle and the
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Speaker 8: walk and miracle because soon as the bust comes out,
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Speaker 8: was it.
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Speaker 1: Local resident Helen also had a run in with Zaman.
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Speaker 8: I was don't care work, but I was having the
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Speaker 8: community at the time, and my car was off the road,
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Speaker 8: so I was waiting outside the gate to get picked up,
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Speaker 8: and Zed was coming along with k and all the
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Speaker 8: bins were ready for collection, and he was deliberately with
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Speaker 8: his chair. It was deliberately driving into the bins, not
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Speaker 8: when the bin's down. But obviously he didn't do man
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Speaker 8: because I was standing there and that says, well, why
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Speaker 8: did he do that? And then he started giving them both.
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Speaker 8: I was a bitch, I was all sorts. So that's
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Speaker 8: when yet another argument had started in the street, you know,
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Speaker 8: And it was just he thought he could confront people
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Speaker 8: and nobody would send anything back.
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Speaker 7: He's the neighbor from hell. He's confrontational, he's antagonistic, and
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Speaker 7: when he has an altercation with somebody, he's not just
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Speaker 7: going to let it go. He's someone who's something of
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Speaker 7: a grievance collector, so when somebody wrongs him, he will
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Speaker 7: react in an entirely disproportionate way.
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Speaker 1: As a man went to elaborate lengths to get revenge
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Speaker 1: on someone he felt that wronged him.
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Speaker 7: One thing that evidence is how vindictive the man was
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Speaker 7: was a letter that he forged from a housing officer
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Speaker 7: which was full of racist slurs. Now he'd taken offense
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Speaker 7: at her when he hadn't got the benefits that he
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Speaker 7: felt entitled to, so he engages in this campaign against her.
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Speaker 6: He busially used the letterhead which this woman had written
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Speaker 6: to him and invented a letter where she was being
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Speaker 6: racist and abusive towards him, and then reported her for that.
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Speaker 6: Realist abuse, which was obviously uncovered as being fig and
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Speaker 6: being false. But I think the good of those kind
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Speaker 6: of lens and to do that in order to carry
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Speaker 6: out revenge and officially who we barely knew, just over
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Speaker 6: some perceived slate over something incredibly mundane gives you an
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Speaker 6: idea of what a dangerous and deceitful and manipultive mind
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Speaker 6: he was really.
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Speaker 1: But thirty nine year olds heeds a man was more
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Speaker 1: manipulative than anyone could possibly imagine, and his ability to
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Speaker 1: lure people into his world was just beginning to become apparent.
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Speaker 2: Zamon was in the relationship with Kay Rayworth, but then
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Speaker 2: later on he started an online relationship with Myra Wood,
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Speaker 2: who then moved into a local address as well.
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Speaker 4: Myra Wood was in her fifties.
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Speaker 3: We are not talking about impressionable teenagers. We're talking about
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Speaker 3: women of maturity and of considerable intelligence.
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Speaker 7: It would have been a gradual chipping away at these women,
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Speaker 7: making them feel dependent upon him, of making them feel
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Speaker 7: valuable worthy, when perhaps they wouldn't have felt that way
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Speaker 7: previously in their lives. He really is an accomplished predator.
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Speaker 7: He knows exactly the things to say to people to
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Speaker 7: bring them into his fild.
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Speaker 1: And it wasn't just women that a man was recruiting.
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Speaker 1: Another North Shields resident who would fall under the cultlike
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Speaker 1: Leader's spell was Jimmy Prout.
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Speaker 6: He was the sixth of eight children and as a
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Speaker 6: result of his father working away quite a bit, his
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Speaker 6: mum was left with the responsibility for the family, which
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Speaker 6: I think she struggled with at times.
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Speaker 5: His mum quite understandably found it difficult to cope with
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Speaker 5: eight children. That meant that both Jimmy and some of
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Speaker 5: his siblings spent periods of time and care during his childhood,
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Speaker 5: and there was little doubt that that was something that
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Speaker 5: Jimmy had found difficult.
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Speaker 6: He was a father of two. He struggled for work really,
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Speaker 6: so he worked odd jobs. I think would be fair
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Speaker 6: to say it was kind of on the periphery of
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Speaker 6: society in the sense that he spent some timeless I think.
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Speaker 6: And also it was a regular user of food banks.
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Speaker 6: And unfortunately you came under the influence of sahiedes Alan.
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Speaker 1: Although it's not known exactly how they met, at some
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Speaker 1: point Jimmy Proud unfortunately cross paths with Zahid Zamen.
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Speaker 5: The indications were that Zahids a man wished to surround
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Speaker 5: himself with people who were subservient to him, who would
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Speaker 5: do what he wanted them to do, and that to
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Speaker 5: that end, he was visiting places where he knew there
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Speaker 5: would be vulnerable people so that he could recruit them
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Speaker 5: to his group. The evidence didn't establish with certainty when
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Speaker 5: it was that Jimmy first met sahid's a Man, but
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Speaker 5: it seemed likely that he had met him at some stage,
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Speaker 5: probably during the course of twenty fifteen, when Jimmy was
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Speaker 5: visiting souit kitchens, and we knew that zaheeds a Man
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Speaker 5: was visiting those areas seeking, as we've suggested, to identify
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Speaker 5: individuals who were vulnerable.
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Speaker 1: Jimmy joined Kay Rayworth and meyrah Wood in Zaman's gang
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Speaker 1: of amateur acolytes.
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Speaker 5: The group dynamic was striking. At the heart of the
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Speaker 5: group was sahieds a man. He was very much in
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Speaker 5: control of the others. The female mems of the group
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Speaker 5: were all people with whom he was having or had
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Speaker 5: hand a relationship. And into this group came Jimmy, a
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Speaker 5: vulnerable individual. He was Sahid z a Man's lucky.
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Speaker 7: The fact that Jimmy was the only other male in
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Speaker 7: the group is quite a significant one because Zaman is
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Speaker 7: somebody who doesn't want any challenge to his position, to
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Speaker 7: his power, to his authority. So when he brings Jimmy
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Speaker 7: into the group, it's because he's confident that he can
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Speaker 7: control him. He's confident that he can wield power over him.
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Speaker 1: The final member to the group was twenty four year
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Speaker 1: old And Corbett, who met Jimmy at a soup kitchen.
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Speaker 1: The two became close friends despite their eighteen year age gap.
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Speaker 5: And Corbett was the youngest member of the group by
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Speaker 5: some distance. There was no doubt that she'd had a
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Speaker 5: difficult background, that she was vulnerable to some extent, and
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Speaker 5: she was therefore the very kind of person that zahides
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Speaker 5: a Man was seeking to incorporate into his group.
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Speaker 1: By two thy fifteen, all five were living in two
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Speaker 1: houses on the same street, both owned by Kay Rayworth.
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Speaker 1: She and Zahidza Man lived in one property, while just
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Speaker 1: down the road, Jimmy Mera Wood and Anne Corbett shared
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Speaker 1: a home. In effect, they were one household under two roofs.
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Speaker 7: So the man invited Jimmy to live at Rayworth's property.
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Speaker 7: Now this is a classic coercively controlling tactic. You take
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Speaker 7: somebody away from their community, away from their friends and family,
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Speaker 7: you isolate them, you increase their dependency upon you, And
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Speaker 7: I think that's definitely what was going on here.
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Speaker 3: Perhaps he hoped that his relationship with Corbett would somehow
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Speaker 3: be his savior. Perhaps he hoped that Zaman would to
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Speaker 3: some extent provide him with the family that he never
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Speaker 3: really had. But for whatever reason, Jimmy Prout became the
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Speaker 3: target of this odious, cruel, malevolent cult.
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Speaker 1: Unbelievably, the man who was viewed as an aggressive bully
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Speaker 1: to the locals could do no wrong in the eyes
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Speaker 1: of the four people who seemingly worshiped him behind closed doors.
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Speaker 5: One of the striking things about the evidence was the
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Speaker 5: extent which there was a difference between the way in
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Speaker 5: which he was perceived within the community as opposed to
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Speaker 5: the way in which he was perceived within his particular group.
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Speaker 5: In the broader community, he was regarded as being an
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Speaker 5: irritating and unpleasant person, not an impressive kind of person.
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Speaker 5: But within his small group he was regarded as being
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Speaker 5: really all powerful.
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Speaker 8: He was the ringleader and always had to walk behind him.
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Speaker 8: There was no weir could any of them have walked
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Speaker 8: alongside him, walked in front of him. It was always thought,
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Speaker 8: always behind him. He wanted that respect. You could tell
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Speaker 8: the word frained of him, but they went along with it.
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Speaker 6: He was maniputive, he was controlling, and unfortunately where Jimmy
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Speaker 6: found himself with the focus of that as well, you know,
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Speaker 6: being as to run errands on his behalf, do jobs
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Speaker 6: on his behalf. That became a part of the control
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Speaker 6: of Jimmy early on, really, so he was almost a
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Speaker 6: member of the group in there. He turned against him
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Speaker 6: for the most random mercurial of reasons.
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Speaker 5: And Corbett had a brother, zahiz a man came to
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Speaker 5: believe that the brother had stolen some tools of his
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Speaker 5: not particularly valuable tools, nonetheless something belonging to zahitz a man,
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Speaker 5: and zahiz a Man, given his vengeful personality, wanted to
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Speaker 5: get his own back, but he couldn't get to the brother.
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Speaker 5: The brother had moved away from the area. He thought
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Speaker 5: that Jimmy had played some part in what had happened,
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Speaker 5: and so Jimmy became the focus for his vengeance.
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Speaker 6: Progressively, the group turned on Jimmy and started to not
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Speaker 6: only ask them to do things in terms of errands,
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Speaker 6: but force him to do things using violence, and they're
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Speaker 6: all guilty violence towards him. It was very much at
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Speaker 6: the instigation of the man. But that was the kind
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Speaker 6: of control which was one of the really strange dynamics
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Speaker 6: and dimensions of this group.
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Speaker 1: Zaahid's a man, a man known for his angry retaliations,
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Speaker 1: focused all his rage on Jimmy Proute, and this time
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Speaker 1: he had an army to do his bidding.
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Speaker 5: Jimmy was being abused for a prolonged period of time,
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Speaker 5: and people will ask why didn't you walk away? But
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Speaker 5: the reality is that people who are abused don't all
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Speaker 5: behave in the same way. Some do run, some do complain,
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Speaker 5: but there are many people who, for whatever reason, remain.
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Speaker 5: And Jimmy was one of those people.
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Speaker 8: Nobody knew because even them living in that house, he
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Speaker 8: had the windows boarded up and all that, so that
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Speaker 8: was odd in itself, but nobody thought for one minute,
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Speaker 8: just because the windows were boarded up, what was going
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Speaker 8: on insane.
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Speaker 2: He's under the control of this one individual who is coercive,
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Speaker 2: who is controlling, and that happens to many, many people
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Speaker 2: who happens in domestic violent situations as well, so being
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Speaker 2: an adult or being a man or a woman doesn't
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Speaker 2: mean you can necessarily walk away. They'd already got their
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Speaker 2: talents into him, and they were already controlling him.
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Speaker 7: Jimmy was tortured over a number of months. This wasn't
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Speaker 7: just one incident. This was a series of incidents that
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Speaker 7: took place over a significant period of time. And the
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Speaker 7: man has a very strong sadistic streak. He quite enjoys
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Speaker 7: seeing people suffer. He also enjoys taking away people's freedom
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Speaker 7: and their liberty, and this is essentially what he was
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Speaker 7: doing with Jimmy. This is textbook coercive control. It's a
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Speaker 7: gradual chipping away of somebody until they're a shell of
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Speaker 7: their former self.
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Speaker 8: Obviously didn't know what was going on. Being clors doors, well,
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Speaker 8: you would see and he seemed to look it wasn't
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Speaker 8: what it was when when he first appeared into the
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Speaker 8: group sort of thing. He seemed very very distant, withdrawn
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Speaker 8: and it was a bit ha That logan.
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Speaker 4: Which is a shame.
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Speaker 6: Was described as like something from the dark Ages, and
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Speaker 6: I think that's really appropriate description. The notion of someone
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Speaker 6: being tortured and held in that way for such a
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Speaker 6: long period of time and being under the control of
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Speaker 6: someone is obviously most unusual, most extreme, and the nature
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Speaker 6: of the torture was obscene.
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Speaker 5: Really, there were many ways in which Jimmy was subject
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Speaker 5: to humiliation treatment.
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Speaker 6: There was evidence of his teeth I'm being removed and
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Speaker 6: obviously the real nada. The worst of it was when
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Speaker 6: his testicle was removed and he was forced to it
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Speaker 6: was placed in his mouth.
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Speaker 7: Jimmy was forced to eat his own enticle. And this
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Speaker 7: shows that even in his sadism, the man is morbidly creative.
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Speaker 7: These are things that he will have thought through. These
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Speaker 7: won't just be things that have come up at the
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Speaker 7: spur of the moment that he's just decided to do
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Speaker 7: on any given day. There's quite a level of detail
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Speaker 7: that goes into this kind of suffering, and I think
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Speaker 7: humiliation is ultimately the goal here, because by humiliating Jimmy,
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Speaker 7: he's again chipping away at his sense of personhood, his
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Speaker 7: sense of self, and he's one hundred percent in control
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Speaker 7: of him.
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Speaker 3: It is utterly horrifying, and yet Proud doesn't run, he
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Speaker 3: doesn't go to the police.
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Speaker 4: He doesn't really know what to do.
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Speaker 1: On the twenty seventh of November, Jimmy Prout took himself
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Speaker 1: to North Tyneside General Hospital, but he lied to doctors
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Speaker 1: about how he'd sustained his multiple injuries.
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Speaker 5: People knew that Jimmy was sustaining injuries. People knew or
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Speaker 5: must have known, that he was sustaining those injuries as
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Speaker 5: a result of assaults. And we know that on certainly
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Speaker 5: one occasion he had been to hospital. So why wasn't
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Speaker 5: anything done by the people who knew that was happening.
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Speaker 4: The answer to that question, I think.
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Speaker 5: In part is because zaheitze Man was causing Jimmy to
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Speaker 5: lie about what had happened to him, causing Jimmy to
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Speaker 5: say that a person or person's other than zaheita Man
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Speaker 5: and his gang were causing those injuries.
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Speaker 1: Jimmy posted pictures of his wounds on social media. The
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Speaker 1: brutality of his treatment was clear to see, but once again,
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Speaker 1: he didn't say how he'd sustained the injuries.
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Speaker 9: You can see he's been subjected to repeated episodes of
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Speaker 9: blood force trauma. In particular, at the top of his shoulder,
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Speaker 9: for example, was a very large bruise. He's also got
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Speaker 9: other bruises which you can see on his body that
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Speaker 9: would be consistent with him over periods of time, receiving
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Speaker 9: quite heavy blows.
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Speaker 6: The Facebook pictures were just awful and really vividly showed
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Speaker 6: how badly beating heed being, you know, I mean, we're
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Speaker 6: talking about somebody who was physically assaulted on a regular
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Speaker 6: basis in order to control them, really to the point
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Speaker 6: where I think probably he was so weak that he
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Speaker 6: didn't know where to turn.
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Speaker 9: I would imagine that part of the abuse cycle would
23:34
Speaker 9: have been that he wasn't being fed properly. Therefore, it's
23:37
Speaker 9: most likely that he continued to lose weight and together
23:42
Speaker 9: with the repeated episodes of trauma, his body would have
23:45
Speaker 9: found it more and more difficult to heal from those
23:47
Speaker 9: episodes of trauma.
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Speaker 8: He was always covered up, and he always wore dragnets.
23:54
Speaker 8: Regardless of what the weather was, it was always dragnets.
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Speaker 8: And then I thought much of it at the time
24:01
Speaker 8: was just as that's where he wants to dress, that's it.
24:03
Speaker 8: But obviously he was covering things up, or they were
24:06
Speaker 8: meeting them covered things up.
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Speaker 2: The photograph that was the most striking for me was
24:12
Speaker 2: where he's taking a photograph of his face and you
24:15
Speaker 2: can see the injuries on his face, but you can
24:17
Speaker 2: also see where his teeth are missing. He's put these
24:22
Speaker 2: pictures on social media. He was asking for help. He
24:26
Speaker 2: didn't get it.
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Speaker 8: The last time I saw him, he was hobbling and
24:39
Speaker 8: he was very very slow, and he had Keir and
24:43
Speaker 8: and either said.
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Speaker 4: Of him helping him the wall.
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Speaker 8: I just thought, as he had some kind of fall,
24:49
Speaker 8: as he took bad you know, and that's that's there
24:54
Speaker 8: helping him.
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Speaker 6: He was too weak to escape. I think it got
24:57
Speaker 6: to the stage where the suffering was so that he
25:00
Speaker 6: was unable to get away. I think for a variety
25:02
Speaker 6: of different reasons, not only the injuries, but also the
25:04
Speaker 6: k the mental control that's a man had over them.
25:08
Speaker 1: The constant beatings and horrendous torture eventually became too much
25:13
Speaker 1: for Jimmy Prout.
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Speaker 5: By the morning of the ninth of February, as a
25:20
Speaker 5: result of the treatment he'd received, Jimmy was dead. And
25:26
Speaker 5: the defendants knew that this was a problem for them,
25:29
Speaker 5: and they were thinking only about themselves, not about Jimmy,
25:34
Speaker 5: and so what they did was to take his body,
25:38
Speaker 5: place it in sleeping bags, and take it in a
25:43
Speaker 5: wheelchair to a wooded area beside an a roades and dump.
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Speaker 4: There's another word for it.
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Speaker 3: His body there, Jimmy Prout is treated like garbage. He
25:56
Speaker 3: is simply thrown away. They've had their fun gone. That's
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Speaker 3: the end of that. He was a victim in the
26:09
Speaker 3: worst possible way, helpless, defenseless, tortured and in the end
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Speaker 3: killed by people whom I think he thought would be
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Speaker 3: his saviors.
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Speaker 4: The exact reverse was the case.
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Speaker 1: By late March twenty sixteen, Jimmy Prout had been dead
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Speaker 1: for six weeks, but nobody knew he was even missing.
26:39
Speaker 5: During that six week period, there was no formal report
26:43
Speaker 5: by Zaheitz a Man or anyone else within his group
26:46
Speaker 5: of the fact that Jimmy was missing. But what they
26:49
Speaker 5: were doing was going around or Shields, going around Newcastle
26:53
Speaker 5: and saying to anyone that would listen, where is Jimmy?
26:56
Speaker 5: And their purpose was to give the impression first of
27:00
Speaker 5: all that they were concerned about him, and secondly that
27:04
Speaker 5: he might still be alive.
27:07
Speaker 1: But behind the boarded up windows of Zahid's a man's home,
27:11
Speaker 1: there was dissension in the ranks.
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Speaker 6: There was a fracture in the relationship between the man
27:16
Speaker 6: and Ann Corbett's. The man was concerned that Ann Corbett
27:20
Speaker 6: was going to confess what had really happened.
27:24
Speaker 7: The man is used to being in control. He's used
27:27
Speaker 7: to being in charge. So when this case starts to
27:30
Speaker 7: unravel and there's the risk that Corbett is going to
27:33
Speaker 7: go and tell the authorities about what happened, he needs
27:36
Speaker 7: to get ahead. He needs to get in there first,
27:38
Speaker 7: because even though he's lost control over the series of events,
27:42
Speaker 7: he hasn't lost control over the narrative. He can still
27:45
Speaker 7: craft a story around this.
27:49
Speaker 1: Zahid's A Man decided to pick up the phone and
27:53
Speaker 1: dial nine ninety nine.
27:55
Speaker 5: On the twenty fifth of March twenty sixteen, six weeks
27:59
Speaker 5: after Jimmy had been murdered, Zahid's A Man made a
28:03
Speaker 5: telephone call to the police. In that call, he claimed
28:07
Speaker 5: that he had been attacked by Ann Corbett and that
28:12
Speaker 5: in the course of what followed she had confessed to
28:14
Speaker 5: him that she had murdered Jimmy. The police understanding, we
28:19
Speaker 5: went round to the house where they were confronted by
28:23
Speaker 5: Zahid's a Man, apparently inconsolable, screaming and crying in apparent grief.
28:30
Speaker 2: They found three people there. There was Kay Rayworth, Myra
28:34
Speaker 2: Wood and also Zamon. All of them were distressed. Zamon
28:38
Speaker 2: was crying and they were trying to console him. Zamon
28:42
Speaker 2: said that he had asked Anne about Jimmy prouton Anne
28:45
Speaker 2: had said that she had killed him.
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Speaker 7: The man has an awful lot of power over these women.
28:53
Speaker 7: He is the leader and they are his followers. So
28:56
Speaker 7: he convinces two of them to go along with the
28:59
Speaker 7: store sor that Corbett is the aggressor. She's the one
29:03
Speaker 7: who's caused Jimmy's death, So let's all stick together on
29:06
Speaker 7: this and we throw her under the bus. Essentially, this
29:10
Speaker 7: shows that the loyalties within this household, this group are
29:14
Speaker 7: all to the man. They are not to each other.
29:18
Speaker 1: On the twenty sixth of March twenty sixteen, investigators decided
29:23
Speaker 1: to arrest all four members of the group, despite the
29:27
Speaker 1: fact that Jimmy's body hadn't been found. Twenty five year
29:31
Speaker 1: old and Corbett told detectives about his demise.
29:35
Speaker 3: In her first conversation with the police, Corbett insists that yes,
29:41
Speaker 3: she tried to strangle.
29:42
Speaker 4: Jimmy Prout, but hadn't killed him. It was her brother well.
29:47
Speaker 3: The police quickly discovered that brother was nowhere near that
29:50
Speaker 3: street in North shields when Prout died.
29:56
Speaker 7: At this stage in proceedings, Corbett has been physically separated
30:00
Speaker 7: from the man for quite some time. This is perhaps
30:03
Speaker 7: the first time that she's spent a significant period of
30:06
Speaker 7: time with other people, with people outside of this cult
30:10
Speaker 7: like group, and I think that's played a role here
30:12
Speaker 7: in terms of what she did next. So she speaks
30:15
Speaker 7: to her solicitor, and then her story changes the game.
30:18
Speaker 7: So you're starting to see cracks in the control that
30:21
Speaker 7: the man has over these women when they're physically distant
30:24
Speaker 7: from him.
30:26
Speaker 1: On the twenty seventh of March, after following Anne Corbett's directions,
30:31
Speaker 1: police discovered Jimmy's body in a wooded area just meters
30:35
Speaker 1: from his home. He'd been dead for more than six weeks.
30:41
Speaker 9: Although Jimmy's body was decomposed and didn't allow the pathologists
30:46
Speaker 9: to identify cause of death, there were several fractures of
30:50
Speaker 9: various ages present within the body. He has been subjected
30:55
Speaker 9: to repeated episodes of violent trauma. The torture which he's
30:59
Speaker 9: been subjected to is medieval. I mean, it's things that
31:03
Speaker 9: you read in horror books. Is not really something that
31:05
Speaker 9: happens in a residential area.
31:08
Speaker 4: In the UK.
31:10
Speaker 9: It's beyond thinking about the everyday person would not believe
31:13
Speaker 9: that that level of abuse and violence would occur to
31:18
Speaker 9: a fellow human being.
31:21
Speaker 1: The truth about Jimmy Prout's final moments finally came to light.
31:27
Speaker 3: From five o'clock in the morning of February the ninth,
31:30
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen, there are a series of telephone calls between Zaman, Corbett,
31:37
Speaker 3: and Wood.
31:39
Speaker 4: We were to discover later.
31:42
Speaker 3: That Zaman and Rayworth had turned up at the other
31:45
Speaker 3: house in the same street, and Zaman had ordered Corbett
31:50
Speaker 3: to gag Jimmy Prout with a pair of trousers. The
31:56
Speaker 3: argument about, oh, he's causing such a lot of noise.
32:00
Speaker 1: Jimmy Prout would never make another sound. He died soon after.
32:08
Speaker 1: The tight knit group now began playing the blame game.
32:15
Speaker 7: These people have lived in this little vacuum, this household,
32:19
Speaker 7: this group that's been quite separate from the rest of
32:22
Speaker 7: the community or other outside voices. So when they're in
32:25
Speaker 7: a room with police officers and legal representatives being asked questions,
32:30
Speaker 7: I think they begin to realize that, actually, I need
32:33
Speaker 7: to look out for myself now.
32:35
Speaker 5: What the for defendants were doing ultimately was as lawyers
32:40
Speaker 5: were cutting each other's throats, and in a sense that
32:44
Speaker 5: made the job of the police and the prosecution easier.
32:49
Speaker 5: We knew that they were going to accept that violence,
32:52
Speaker 5: and lawful violence and violence of a terrible nature had
32:55
Speaker 5: been used towards Jimmy, So the real questions became who
33:00
Speaker 5: did and who didn't do it.
33:03
Speaker 1: With all four suspects remanded in custody, investigators began to
33:08
Speaker 1: look for evidence. From the days leading up to Jimmy's murder.
33:12
Speaker 1: CCTV on the street where the group lived captured them
33:16
Speaker 1: on a few different occasions, moving between the two houses
33:21
Speaker 1: they shared.
33:23
Speaker 2: The first CCTV images October eighteenth and twenty fifteen, where
33:27
Speaker 2: you can see Jimmy Prout walking along and he seems
33:30
Speaker 2: to be quite fit and healthy. It's at that point
33:33
Speaker 2: that we know that the relationship changes and the relationship
33:36
Speaker 2: that he has with the rest of the group really
33:39
Speaker 2: goes downhill.
33:41
Speaker 1: The mistreatment and torture of Jimmy Proute had begun.
33:47
Speaker 2: On the fifth of February in twenty sixteen, we see
33:50
Speaker 2: Jimmy Prout again and on that occasion he's just been
33:54
Speaker 2: pushed along the road. You can see that his physical
33:56
Speaker 2: condition has deteriorated, but he is being pushed along and
34:00
Speaker 2: Ease mobile. On February sixth, we see Jimmy Prout again.
34:08
Speaker 2: On this occasion, you can see that his physical demeanor
34:12
Speaker 2: has completely changed. He's literally being dragged along the road.
34:17
Speaker 2: You can see that he can't hold himself up. You
34:19
Speaker 2: can see that he's got something wrong with his leg,
34:22
Speaker 2: his arm, and he is in a very very bad
34:25
Speaker 2: physical condition. That image of Jimmy Proute being dragged along
34:32
Speaker 2: is the last time that there are any images of
34:34
Speaker 2: him being seen alive.
34:37
Speaker 1: Just three days later, Jimmy Prout would be dead.
34:41
Speaker 2: The only thing you don't see is Zamon. You don't
34:44
Speaker 2: see Zamon forcing him down the road or controlling him
34:47
Speaker 2: because he didn't need to physically intervene. He seemed to
34:51
Speaker 2: have his mental sort of ability to control the rest
34:54
Speaker 2: of the groups that they did his bidding.
34:56
Speaker 1: While searching as a man in Kay Ray Willth's home,
35:00
Speaker 1: detectives discovered a set of audio recordings which shed light
35:04
Speaker 1: on who the ringleader of Jimmy's abuse was.
35:08
Speaker 6: The key thing from the police perspective was this attack
35:11
Speaker 6: where you could be heard in the background of this
35:15
Speaker 6: recorded calls actually attacking Jimmy in ASSAULTNYM showing the course
35:19
Speaker 6: of making the call. So became clear from the evidence
35:22
Speaker 6: that got from the flat that he was the main protagonist.
35:26
Speaker 1: During police interviews, Katie Rayworth confessed to another horrendous act.
35:32
Speaker 1: Images of the group at an ATM captured after Jimmy
35:36
Speaker 1: had been killed confirmed her story.
35:39
Speaker 5: The evidence demonstrator that at some point after Jimmy's body
35:42
Speaker 5: had been dumped, members of the Zaman group went back
35:47
Speaker 5: to the body. They took from the body Jimmy's bank
35:51
Speaker 5: card and they then used the bank card to withdraw
35:56
Speaker 5: hundreds of pounds from his account.
35:59
Speaker 4: And to any.
36:01
Speaker 5: Right minded person that shows that they were disgusting.
36:07
Speaker 6: Is to feel the contemplate how you could do that
36:09
Speaker 6: really remove a vang cord from patique composing body, which
36:11
Speaker 6: is what they did.
36:15
Speaker 1: Along with Anne Corbett, the other members of the group,
36:19
Speaker 1: Kay Rayworth, Myra Wood and Zahid's a Man were all
36:23
Speaker 1: charged with Jimmy's murder. Local North Shields residents were shocked.
36:31
Speaker 8: Even me having run ins with z and a new
36:36
Speaker 8: k before she got involved with him, And what you
36:39
Speaker 8: just don't think for one minute or a group of
36:41
Speaker 8: people are actually prepared to do something like that. What
36:47
Speaker 8: goes for a remainder? Why would they? Why doesn't make sense.
36:53
Speaker 1: On the third of May twenty seventeen, Zahid's a man
36:57
Speaker 1: and his three misguided disciples went on trial at Newcastle
37:02
Speaker 1: Crown Court. All four admitted to perverting the course of justice,
37:07
Speaker 1: but denied murdering Jimmy Prout. Reporter Jeremy Armstrong was in
37:12
Speaker 1: the court room.
37:13
Speaker 6: It was a strange say, seeing them say by side
37:16
Speaker 6: in the dark. He seemed somehow divorced from what was
37:19
Speaker 6: going on. I don't know if one can best describe
37:22
Speaker 6: that that way, but there didn't seem to be any
37:24
Speaker 6: shame or any emotional reaction to the description of what
37:28
Speaker 6: had happened to Jimmy, which I'd found quite disturbing.
37:30
Speaker 1: Really, Prosecutor Paul Greeney had to cross examine the manipulative
37:37
Speaker 1: ring leader.
37:38
Speaker 5: I obviously encountered. I hed some man in a very
37:41
Speaker 5: different environment from the environment in which Kay Rayworth and
37:45
Speaker 5: others encountered him. I encountered him in a court room,
37:49
Speaker 5: not an environment in which he would have been comfortable,
37:51
Speaker 5: but one in which I was comfortable. And the person
37:54
Speaker 5: that I saw was undistinguished and entirely unimp.
38:01
Speaker 1: Former acquaintance of Kay Rayworth, Heleno Keef came face to
38:05
Speaker 1: face with a man who terrorized the neighborhood.
38:08
Speaker 4: When she took the stand, it was very, very dawning.
38:13
Speaker 8: But once I went in and he was there with
38:16
Speaker 8: the other three were sitting there, he was untouchable. Well,
38:22
Speaker 8: regardless of what anybody says, nothing's going to happen to me.
38:26
Speaker 8: When I first went in, he was watching, so he
38:29
Speaker 8: was trying to be a bit intimidating, and I, no,
38:31
Speaker 8: you're not going to You're not. You're not going to
38:33
Speaker 8: intimidate this.
38:38
Speaker 1: With the evidence laid out in front of them, it
38:41
Speaker 1: was clear to everyone in the courtroom that some man
38:45
Speaker 1: was the instigator in chief of the cult like group.
38:48
Speaker 6: It wouldn't happen without a man that I don't think
38:50
Speaker 6: there's any doubt of that whatsoever.
38:52
Speaker 5: My own view is that said a man tortured and
38:57
Speaker 5: caused Jimmy to be tortured and ultimately kill Jimmy because
39:02
Speaker 5: he thought that he had been involved in some way
39:05
Speaker 5: in the theft of some inexpensive tools. And such was
39:10
Speaker 5: the distorted personality of zaheta man, such was his desire
39:16
Speaker 5: for vengeance that he was prepared to do anything to
39:20
Speaker 5: show that people shouldn't treat him like that.
39:24
Speaker 1: The jury didn't fall for their cliques' lies and found
39:27
Speaker 1: and Corbett and Zahid's a man guilty of the murder
39:31
Speaker 1: of Jimmy Prout.
39:33
Speaker 5: As for Kay Rayworth and Myra Wood, the jury decided
39:37
Speaker 5: that they were guilty of causing or allowing the death
39:40
Speaker 5: of a vulnerable adult. My take on it is that
39:44
Speaker 5: the jewelry thought that these were two women who were
39:48
Speaker 5: effectively living in the same household as Jimmy, who knew
39:52
Speaker 5: that he was as vulnerable, who knew that he was
39:55
Speaker 5: being mistreated in the most appalling way on a daily basis,
39:59
Speaker 5: sometimes more than once a day, who had an opportunity
40:02
Speaker 5: and obligation to intervene, but didn't do so.
40:06
Speaker 4: They just allowed him to die.
40:14
Speaker 1: Kay Rayworth was jailed for twelve years and four months
40:18
Speaker 1: and Myra Wood received a nine year sentence. Zaman and
40:23
Speaker 1: Corbett were sentenced to life in prison thirty three and
40:27
Speaker 1: twenty seven years, respectively, proving that a man was seen
40:31
Speaker 1: as the main tormentor of Jimmy Prout.
40:35
Speaker 2: The length of their sentences shows how shocked the jury
40:40
Speaker 2: were in this case and the judge because this isn't
40:42
Speaker 2: just a case of murder, this is a case of
40:46
Speaker 2: humiliation torture of a vulnerable adult.
40:51
Speaker 1: Jimmy Proute was tortured to death by a group of
40:54
Speaker 1: individuals who he believed to be his friends, having witnessed
41:00
Speaker 1: his deterioration, learning the brutal truth about the reasons behind
41:04
Speaker 1: it was difficult for local residents like Helen to hear.
41:09
Speaker 8: Going back with that part of seeing them help and
41:13
Speaker 8: then hearing what had happened, you feel as all you
41:17
Speaker 8: wish I'd intervened, but you couldn't because of the tame.
41:21
Speaker 8: There was nothing underworld where you could see.
41:24
Speaker 4: Did he need a hand? I think probably.
41:29
Speaker 6: This is one of the most extreme cases of violence
41:33
Speaker 6: towards a vulnerable individual one could ever come across, and
41:36
Speaker 6: one of the most shocking cases I've ever covered. As
41:38
Speaker 6: a result of that, there was absolutely no need whatsoever
41:42
Speaker 6: to use the extreme level of violence that was used
41:44
Speaker 6: against him.
41:46
Speaker 5: Zahedes a Man was an extremely dangerous individual. He simply
41:52
Speaker 5: couldn't cope with the situation in which he didn't get
41:55
Speaker 5: his own way, and if he didn't get his own way,
41:58
Speaker 5: he responded the way that was vengeful in the extreme.
42:04
Speaker 1: There can be no doubt that the barbaric cruelty caused
42:08
Speaker 1: by a group of misfits was spearheaded by a man.
42:14
Speaker 1: He could have put an end to the medieval like
42:17
Speaker 1: torture at any point, but clearly received some sort of
42:21
Speaker 1: sick enjoyment from watching an innocent man die slowly. This
42:27
Speaker 1: wicked brutality unquestionably make Zaheeds a man one of the
42:32
Speaker 1: world's most evil killers.