Episode 2 Death Unexplained

It started out as something tremendously complicated,

suspected arson, potential homicide.

West London, one of the busiest coroner's jurisdictions

in England and Wales, with over 4,000 cases a year.

Today, coroner Alison Thompson is about to enter court

to solve the mystery of a man who died in suspicious circumstances.

Bedroom two, where the casualty was found...

It's the culmination of a six-month investigation by the coroner's team.

From the moment that death has been reported,

there's a whole play going on.

Recovery of the body, police involvement.

Police entered into the premises, found the victim...

In her court, the coroner must establish the facts.

Who was the deceased?

When, where and how did he die?

You have to go in with a flexible head.

The unexpected happens and we have to be ready for it.

When life's end is unexplained

the answer falls to Her Majesty's Coroner.

Court rise!

Saturday 12th March.

What should be one of the quietest days of the week

for the coroner's team at Uxbridge Mortuary. But not today.

A man has died in suspicious circumstances.

Police and a pathologist have been called in to investigate.

The circumstances of the incident are as follows -

some builders noticed a male walk into the block of flats,

then heard some banging, ringing a bell,

calling out as if for the occupant to open the door.

This carried on for about ten minutes.

From what I understand, it then went quiet for a further ten minutes.

The witnesses see the same male exit the building.

A few moments later, there was smoke seen coming from the address.

Police entered into the premises, found the victim,

it appeared to the officers there were signs that he'd inhaled smoke.

While police outline the case,

mortuary technicians prepare for a special postmortem.

These highly detailed forensic examinations

are only carried out when a death is suspicious

He's been taken to hospital.

But presumably pronounced dead fairly soon thereafter.

Yes.

The 41-year-old man died yesterday afternoon,

and the special postmortem must be held as soon as possible

to preserve crucial forensic evidence.

Of significance, there's one person in custody.

-Is that... This is the male that was seen banging on the doors?

-Yes.

As the man's death looks suspicious, police have limited time

in which to charge the suspect or release him on bail.

Did you get a time, Howard? 0940, OK?

Dr Ashley Fegan-Earl is one of only 30

Home Office forensic pathologists

qualified to conduct special postmortems.

It's his job to determine the cause of death for the coroner.

He begins by examining the body for any external injuries

which might suggest foul play.

We've just got some of these bruises...

If you want to do it like that, that's fine.

The police investigation is being led

by Detective Sergeant Nick Doherty.

He'll be liaising with coroner's officer Shirley Stewart.

As soon as we have some indication that it's going suspicious

or non-suspicious, as best we can determine,

then I can deal with the suspect.

Samples of DNA, hair, and body fluids have to be collected,

meticulously logged, and stored,

preserved as evidence in a potential criminal trial.

Externally, we haven't found any injuries that give cause for concern that,

for example, would suggest he'd been in a fight or anything like that.

We'll examine all the internal organs to look for any natural disease,

any injuries that are present,

or to look for whether there's evidence of inhalation of smoke into the airways.

Even though Dr Fegan-Earl has ruled out an assault,

DS Doherty needs to know if the fire contributed to the death.

He may have to apply for an extension

to keep the suspect in custody

I've spoken to Shirley.

By about midday we should have an answer.

So what I'll do, as soon as I get the answer, I'll give you a ring.

If we need the extension, we need to do it before 1pm.

It needs to be done in person and if we're running low on time,

it's not going to happen, they'll have to kick him out, they'll have to release him.

After nearly three hours,

the special postmortem is almost complete.

There's no soot in the airways, Howard.

-No soot?

-No.

I think, at the end of that,

we haven't got a definitive cause of death.

That said, I cannot see any positive pathological evidence

to suggest he's been the victim of any form of assault.

Perhaps most importantly, there is no evidence

of inhalation of fire fumes, so I can't see any sooty debris

extending down the airways, and branching into the lungs.

That doesn't explain the fire at the moment,

but from the pathological features,

he was not alive when that fire was on-going.

We come down to further investigations.

I think probably most importantly, toxicology,

to see what drugs or alcohol are present in his system,

which may be, therefore, relevant to the death.

In an intricate case like this,

Shirley can attend the scene of the death

to assist in the investigation.

Her role is independent of police -

she's looking for clues for the coroner.

We are the voice of the deceased and we are there to protect them

because they can no longer talk for themselves.

It's up to us to investigate the death,

to establish the circumstances, to be able to satisfy a family

that everything has been done correctly

and within the parameters of the coroners' law.

There is an awful lot of comparison with Silent Witness,

Waking The Dead, CSI, Quincy...

SHE LAUGHS Quincy's another thing they call you.

That always makes me laugh.

If only we could solve everything in half an hour, eh?

It's Saturday afternoon.

At the scene, police and fire investigators search for evidence

that could reveal how the fire started and how the man died.

My name's Shirley, I'm from the coroner's office

I'm Remi, the crime scene examiner.

I think, in here we found some bottles of medication

that have got the deceased person's name on.

Just in case we find this in his blood

from the postmortem this morning, we're doing toxicology.

If they could be seized so we have the physical evidence it is actually his

because it'll have his name on it.

Also, in the living room, I've noticed there's some strips of tablets,

I haven't been able to see what they are.

But if you could take those as well.

-OK, I'll take a photograph in situ first.

-Please.

-And then I'll package them later.

-That's lovely.

And if we give them to Nick he can store them until such time

the investigation is completed by the police and coroner.

You OK with that? Thanking you.

The dead man was discovered on his bed.

There are prescription drugs and alcohol on most surfaces.

The London Fire Brigade investigation team

are now focused on the bedroom next door, where the fire started.

We've found a newspaper which is a day old, previous day,

and we found it right in the area burning which is here.

Was it just lying on the floor? Was there other stuff underneath it?

It appeared to have been pushed under.

It had been pushed under the bed amongst all the other storage,

the videos, the boxes.

The fire spread to the underside of the mattress.

Burnt along the underside of the mattress.

The heat's radiated down to the rest of the stuff.

Up any easily flammable materials or easily ignitable materials.

So at this point, is there anything to indicate what started that?

In our opinion it's application of naked flame by persons unknown.

In other words, the fire was started deliberately,

but they don't know by whom, or why.

After ten hours of investigation,

Shirley's work for the coroner is only just beginning.

Coroner Alison Thompson lives and works in West London.

Her team deal with an average of 75 deaths each week.

The leafy surrounds of Richmond in spring

remind her of the cases she's dealt with over the past 12 years.

I go to work and I sort of pass

the scenes of previous cases, so I always remember them.

I'm particularly careful

if it's an area where there's been a road traffic accident.

So, I'm hyper-sensitive to the locations I see.

It's really beautiful. Unfortunately, this is also an area where we have a number of suicides.

It's got lakes, beautiful ducks, black swans.

It's just a lovely part of the park

with rhododendrons and... it's a beauty spot,

and unfortunately a lot of people choose to go there

and hang themselves.

And seeing the aircraft, we're on the flight path,

and we've had a number of fatalities

of people who have stowed away in the undercarriage.

One of them fell fairly recently into the local Sainsbury's car park.

Previous boyfriends said that I saw everything as danger.

I'd be on a cable car on a skiing holiday and be terrified

or I'd be watching children in a playground

thinking of health and safety rather than,

"Isn't that a beautiful sight?"

So, yes, they're in danger all around them.

Danger everywhere.

PHONE RINGS

Good morning. Coroner's office can I help you?

What's the name of the deceased?

Alison's court is in Fulham, where she has five investigating officers

who are the first port of call for all sudden and unexplained deaths.

We're not going to hurt her, you know we can't hurt her.

But I think we need to find out what happened.

With 12 years' experience,

Shane Spencer is one of the longest-serving coroner's officers.

Dealing with grieving families is a tough part of her job.

All right then, I will do, Maggie, take care. Bye-bye.

Shane came from the Ambulance Service,

so she's got nerves of steel to able to manage that.

Today, she's handling an unusual road traffic death

involving an 81-year-old local businessman.

This gentleman was over from Spain to attend the funeral of his brother.

And outside his home,

I think he was returning to the home address in Richmond,

and he was involved in a collision with a pedal cyclist.

Sustained serious injuries at the scene.

The accident happened on the 21st,

and he passed away on the 24th.

Good afternoon, is Eduardo there, please?

It's the coroner's office. Hello.

It's just to let you know the results

of your father's postmortem.

The examination has taken place

and the cause of death will come back as a head injury.

We will open and adjourn the inquest today,

then we will issue all the paperwork tomorrow,

and he'll be released to your undertakers.

All right? OK, and, obviously, my condolences.

I've already been informed by the undertakers that they want

Dad for cremation and that'll all be sorted,

and he'll be released to them tomorrow,

or as soon as they can come and get him.

All right? He was a character, wasn't he?

Yeah, yeah. Thank you and again my condolences, sir.

Thank you, bye-bye.

Shane has to brief the coroner at the beginning of every case

her court deals with.

This gentleman by the name of Fernando Izquierdo.

On the 21st April, he was involved in a collision with a pedal cyclist,

actually a few yards from his home.

The family have a restaurant named after their father.

Well, in that case I think I might know it,

as it is quite a well-known tapas restaurant in Richmond

up by the station.

I think you're right, ma'am, I think, yes.

Will we issue the paperwork now to let him go?

We will release it in the morning. Yeah.

With any case where the family wishes to bury their loved one

overseas, the coroner must sign an "Out of England" form to authorise it -

although it's not always necessary.

We won't need to, he's going as hand luggage -

his ashes are going back to Spain.

-Oh, sorry, I'm sorry.

-No, that's fine, ma'am.

They did say he would quite like the idea of that.

He sounded quite a sweet gentleman, but the family are really pleasant.

So, I wonder what the police are doing with that, if anything?

It's Hampton that are dealing, Hampton Traffic Garage.

Hampton - the specialist Collision Investigation Unit

of the Metropolitan Police.

The team here deal with traffic fatalities

for the whole of West London.

Investigator PC Adrian Armstrong has recreated the scene

of Fernando Izquierdo's traffic collision.

I investigate on behalf of the coroner.

Finding out how somebody died is the most important job

that a police officer can ever do.

The laser reconstruction allows him to calculate vehicle speeds

and breaking distances with pin-point accuracy.

This is the view that Mr Izquierdo would have had looking up the road

as he looked back towards the bus.

Now, the witnesses said that Mr Izquierdo simply didn't look before he crossed the road.

But it seems far more likely that he in fact did look,

and that he was happy that there was a bus there,

and that he had time to cross before the bus reached him.

The bus itself has provided vital evidence.

Its onboard cameras captured the collision from four different angles.

Mr Izquierdo just didn't expect a cyclist to come around the bus.

The cyclist reacted in less than one second's time, but it was too late.

'I'm on call, so I don't tend to plan much when I'm call,

'to be honest with you.

'Because it's always when you're in Marks & Spencer's

'or somewhere like that that the pager goes off

'and all of a sudden you'll find lots of people around you.

'It's the fascination of the unknown, I guess.'

7.00, Monday morning. At the coroner's Uxbridge office,

Shirley Stewart catches up on the weekend's cases.

Never regained consciousness.

Next door, it's the responsibility of the all-female technician team

of Cheryl, Mary-Anne and Cassie to look after the deceased

before, during and after the postmortem.

I've been here full-time for a couple of years now.

Two-and-a-half years?

But I worked before that for a couple of years

as a sort of as and when - Saturday girl, if you like!

Like in a hairdresser's.

I'm not a spiritualist person or anything like that.

'But it does make me sort of see that we...

'This is a vessel that carries us around day to day,'

and that what we are and who we are and our beliefs,

and the way we treat people, that is your spirit - and that goes.

This is going to sound silly -

but I actually do believe that there is something else after.

I do believe that. I'd like to believe that.

I'd like to think that you go elsewhere.

You know, and you're at peace.

You see quite ironic, funny things sometimes.

Sometimes you might get an elderly gentleman come in with

a pair of ladies' underwear on, you know, little things like that really.

Yeah, you're like, "Oh, wasn't expecting that!"

You go to do the head and the wig falls off,

and you're not expecting it to be there -

you know, it's just silly things, isn't it, really?

You've got to be human, you've got to be caring here, haven't you?

You'd never say, "that one over there with the funny hair."

That'd be dreadful, no!

"Gentleman", "lady", "mister", "misses".

Yeah.

Again, that's about having respect for what you're dealing with.

And it is, it's huge.

In the office next door, Shirley is making the difficult call

to the sister of the man who died in the weekend's suspicious fire.

The police believe the man is 41-year-old Terry Williams,

but to be sure, they need confirmation from his family.

So at this point in time we don't know why your brother's died,

but we can be sure that he hasn't died as a result of the fire.

All right?

What we really need to do is make arrangements for either

yourself or another member of the family to attend

the mortuary in Uxbridge to formally identify your brother.

You'll be able to do that, will you, Jill - you're happy to do that?

It's important to make that memory for the family fairly decent,

because that might be the last time they see them,

and unfortunately with a death like that, the family have to come in

and identify, formally, the body.

And it would be cruel to not present it well.

You know, the most important thing at the moment is to have him

formally identified by yourself,

so that you can have a bit of peace of mind. All right?

You're welcome. Yes, I'll be here.

All right, Jill, thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

When you've put a body out to view and you think, "Oh, God,

"they really look quite nice," it's a lovely feeling.

If you can make it just a tiny bit more bearable by small gestures,

then that's what it's all about, isn't it?

PHONE RINGS

Hello, Alison Thompson.

'Hello, ma'am, it's Shirley.'

Shirley, good morning, how are you?

'I'm fine, thank you.'

I know you've had a very, very tricky weekend, and you must be exhausted.

-A little bit.

-'Yes. You OK, though?'

Yes, I'm fine, absolutely fine, I'm just really ringing

to update you on what happened on Saturday.

'We've taken a sample of blood, urine and vitreous humour,

'because, at the address, were found some medication'

and the alcohol - lots of empty alcohol bottles and cans.

And they'll be forwarded, with your consent,

-to the forensic toxicology labs for analysis.

-'Yes.

'The medication is definitely his, and it's his sleeping tablets.'

If it's OK, ma'am, we can open the inquest, please?

Yes, we can do that either this afternoon or tomorrow morning,

-whichever is easiest.

-Thank you very much.

Oh, well, well done, Shirley,

and I know you will have got everybody organised!

I'm told I did!

'Yes, well, I expect nothing less,

'I know you will have done and thank you for that.'

Morning, Tox!

Toxicology samples, like those belonging to Terry Williams,

are dispatched to St George's, University of London,

for specialist testing.

Here, they can isolate poisons, street drugs

and over-the-counter prescriptions.

The toxicology team's analysis of Terry's samples could prove vital to the coroner's investigation.

Do come in! Morning.

Thank you, ma'am, nice to meet you.

-My name's Nick Doherty, I'm a DS.

-Do have a seat.

I thought in view of the circumstances of the case

it would be useful to have you here at the formal opening

of the inquest if that's all right?

And so what I'm going to ask you to do is simply outline

the overall circumstances of the case, if you can.

The situation I have, is I've got two different incidents.

I've got the incident with the deceased

and obviously the incident of the fire.

The weekend's investigation concluded that the fire didn't cause

Terry Williams' death, but it was started deliberately.

The arson suspect has been released on bail,

pending further inquiries.

Who started the fire is still unknown.

And now, Terry's flatmate has come forward with new information.

I don't know if you're aware, ma'am,

there is a witness that also resides in that flat.

He saw the deceased take some pills earlier that morning.

With the pill packets that Shirley gathered from the scene,

and Detective Sergeant Doherty's new witness evidence,

the coroner is closer to establishing how Terry died.

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An elderly woman has died in a house fire,

the cause is being investigated.

Coroner's officer Shane Spencer is on her way to Hampton

to collect the final police report on the death

of Richmond restaurateur Fernando Izquierdo.

'You do feel for your families, don't get me wrong,

'but you can't take it all on board.

'If I was sobbing with each and every one, I'd be a complete wreck.

'I'd probably be in a folder somewhere on another coroner's officers' desk!'

Once she has the police file, the inquest date can be set.

Sadly, it's not the first time that Shane

and Detective Inspector Tom Sheridan have had to deal with a death in the Izquierdo family.

Good afternoon.

Hello, Shane, nice to see you, welcome to Hampton.

-Come and take a seat.

-Thank you.

This family, I think we've met before, haven't we?

-Yes, we have, haven't we?

-Under very tragic circumstances, too.

It was the grandson. The grandson of Fernando

sadly died in a collision with a bus on Kingston Bridge.

That's right, yeah, about two years previously.

All our collisions are tragic, but this is especially so

because they've been here before.

Yes, I don't know in 12 years I've ever had it where it's been the same family.

Sometimes you think, "Why does it have to come to somebody's door again?"

It's just tragic.

The report that we've given you here contains a number of maps

and diagrams and calculations in there that show the coroner

how we've come to the conclusions that we've come to.

The final piece of evidence in Shane's investigation

is PC Armstrong's analysis of the CCTV footage.

As the bus comes to the stop, the driver told us in his statement

that quite a lot of people got off.

And we can see Mr Izquierdo.

-Oh, I see him.

-Coming out of his front door,

the bus is indicating to the right, starting to pull away.

-My goodness!

-You can see both of them were knocked out by the accident.

Good grief, that is quite an impact, isn't it? Oh, gosh.

The cyclist did nothing wrong.

He was going at a reasonable speed -

he did everything the highway code asks of you.

Coming round the bus, the last thing you would've expected

-was someone to step out in front of you, isn't it?

-Absolutely.

It's awful.

It's down to a split second,

how tenuous your link is to this life.

If he'd have left home five minutes earlier,

or five minutes later...

Do you know what I mean?

Or walked up the road a little bit further, before he'd crossed,

and that's what it's down to - just split seconds.

In the name of the Father

and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

St Elizabeth's, Richmond, and the family and friends

of Fernando Izquierdo have gathered to bid him a final farewell.

My dear friends in Christ, let us prepare ourselves

to celebrate the holy sacrifice of the Mass,

which we offer this morning for the happy repose of Fernando.

For his son Eduardo,

it's a chance to fondly remember his father,

the patriarch of a large West London family.

When he was younger, he was...

a loveable rogue, you could call him.

He moved to London in the mid-'50s.

He came with a suitcase and not a penny on him, and worked his way up.

We all ended up in catering my brother was a chef in the Hilton,

and another brother was a chef in the Ritz, and we just came back

and Dad said, "Let's open a restaurant together."

Obviously, the restaurant's called Don Fernando's after my dad,

and it is him.

If you look around, just about everything has come from Spain

and everything was chosen by my dad.

In fact, every time you look round you see Dad,

which is nice in some ways, but it's a bit sad as well.

He actually passed away on Easter morning,

with myself and my older brother

just there with him holding his hand,

so that was nice.

Mum would have liked to have been there,

but we had to keep sending her home because she was not in a good state.

They'd just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary

the week before...

..and I think it hit her pretty hard.

Well, it hit us all hard, but obviously Mum's the worst,

so we have to look after her now.

That concludes all the evidence that I propose to call in this case,

the sad death of Mr Fernando Izquierdo Alvarez.

After a five-month investigation,

the coroner's case is complete.

I will record a verdict of accidental death.

I think it was a genuine accident.

I'm not here as a bereavement counsellor or social worker.

I'm here to do a legal job,

but if people walk out feeling,

"We're more settled in our minds about it,

"we can live with this now, we can come to terms with the death,"

then that has to be good.

No-one was to blame.

You think all sorts of things

when people are dying, when you can see your loved ones struggling.

Then when you sit down and look at the bare facts

and the inquest helps with that it's, um...

No, it's very helpful,

and it helps you move on.

He lived life to the full.

Although you care and it's affected you, just be happy that you had

such a great dad and that he had a good life, you know, and he did.

Dad would have liked to have been hit by a Ferrari, really, not a bicycle.

Probably when we go to Spain we'll tell everyone he was hit by something like that.

It's a new week at Uxbridge Mortuary

and Home Office pathologist Dr Ashley Fegan-Earl

is preparing for the day's post-mortem examinations.

PHONE RINGS

Good morning, coroner's office, may I help you?

In the office next door, Shirley Stewart is following up

on Terry Williams' case and fielding the steady flow of new ones.

Coroner's office?

It's four routine cases today

so...that's not too bad.

Did the London Ambulance Service bring him into casualty?

And his date of birth, please? And died when, please?

And his first name, please?

And his family's wishes are for organ donation?

We're all too well aware of the movies,

where everything in forensics is so precise, so accurate.

You'll see some films

where we're told exactly how many hours and minutes ago they died.

But in reality, can we do that? The answer's no.

Fly eggs. It's fly eggs in his nose. Get rid of them!

They will automatically seek out the odour of death.

That's one of the few sciences that we do have any faith in.

Because insects visit a body in a distinct order. By looking at the species that are present,

the entomologists can make an assessment of the time since death.

Oh, wow, look at that.

That's the faxed toxicology report

for Terry Williams.

Oh, my goodness me.

What we do see, I suppose, in the context

of daily life is very surreal,

but it's something that the vast majority of people

if they were exposed to it,

would get very used to.

So, seeing these bodies here today is no different to me

seeing a car travelling down the street.

Who's next?

With the toxicology results now in, Shirley can give the Coroner

her final briefing on the Terry Williams case.

Now we do know that this gentleman actually went to the chemist

-the day before...

-Yes.

-..and cashed in his prescription of ten Zopiclone tablets...

-Right.

..and the empty wrappers were found at the address

and were seized by police.

Excellent. Have we got the toxic range there?

Right, so we're quite clear, 0.58,

-we're into the fatal range, without a doubt.

-Yeah.

-Any previous overdoses?

-Yes - he does have a history.

Feeling actively suicidal, March of 2010.

Again, suicidal ideation plus, plus, plus,

a little bit later in that month.

We've got a clear overdose,

we've got obtaining the medication a day before,

and we've got an empty pack of ten tablets.

What we don't have is any note found,

so we haven't got any written evidence of intention

-to take his own life.

-Yeah. No.

We'll obviously determine it on the evidence we have,

but that's a matter for me at the inquest!

But, no, that's helpful.

And the chap who was arrested originally?

The arson charges against this man were dropped earlier this week

and he has been informed of that.

Good. Right. I think we could get that on pretty soon.

OK, lovely.

I'll speak to his sister

and then find out if they've got any dates

they specifically need to avoid before setting the inquest.

Yes, with the summer holidays planned.

The Coroner may have all the written evidence she needs in Terry's case...

..but what his sister Jill knows about her brother is also important to the investigation.

The day we had the knock at the door from the policeman

to say that Terry died and there was a house fire,

you know, all sorts of things go through your head

and the first thing you think is that, "He's been burned."

That first five days were hard, but slowly, slowly,

it was all starting to... We were finding sort of, more answers

which, you know, were bringing a light to everything.

We have to be very honest with you,

-and you've heard things that perhaps you wouldn't want to hear.

-Yeah.

And, you know, I can't imagine how that must have made you feel.

You know, we had quite a few arguments,

but it was only because...

to tell him that he needed to go and get help.

Somewhere in between the age of 14 to 16,

he was sexually abused...

..and he hit the drink quite hard.

And then it's sort of downhill from then on, really.

Personality changed.

He was sort of relying on alcohol every day after he finished work.

He used to cry

a hell of a lot. He used to sob his heart out.

Sometimes we just couldn't reach him.

He was just so mentally scarred.

It's Wednesday 7th September,

six months after Terry Williams' death.

His sister Jill is attending court

to hear the coroner decide how, when and where he died.

It started out as something tremendously complicated,

as a suspected arson, a potential homicide,

and all that, as far as this man's death is concerned,

has turned out to be a peripheral matter.

A big investigation from the police point of view, quite rightly so,

and one that's still technically open.

But I'm going to focus very much on him.

The impression I get is that he thinks suicidal thoughts

when he's had a lot to drink.

That doesn't necessarily mean he intends the outcome to be fatal.

We'll see.

I don't know which way it will go.

Right, OK, off we go.

Court rise!

Good morning, everyone, please sit down.

English law does not allow filming in court,

so the coroner has re-recorded her summing-up for this case.

So what evidence is there of Mr Williams' intentions?

His flatmate saw him

on two or three occasions swallowing tablets with alcohol.

I bear in mind the evidence

of the key worker who doesn't believe

he had suicidal thoughts at all.

I was minded that the evidence did not persuade me

to the required standard of proof.

But what I have found to be very compelling evidence in this case

is the evidence of Mr Williams' sister Jillian.

She felt very strongly that on this particular occasion,

everything was different.

I AM satisfied, bearing in mind all that I have heard,

that Mr Williams DID intend to take his own life

that particular morning.

I didn't expect that it would go that way.

It just shows you one must always keep an open mind.

The sister knew him better than anybody and she was very much

of the view that he had intended that on this particular occasion.

He woke up that morning knowing what he wanted to do.

He just couldn't cope no more with the demons in his head.

It was... It was, erm...

He decided to call it a day, I'm sure.

-We WERE close, yeah.

-Mmm.

-We were close.

If we went out, he would be there, behind me, "Oi, that's my sister!"

-That's the last thing you need when you're a teenager, isn't it?!

-That's right.

But I knew he was always there.

We miss him. We do really, really miss him.

We miss him putting the world to rights by shouting and hollering.

We just miss everything, you know - his bads, his goods.

Everything.

We really do.

I know that everybody has worked so hard for Terry.

And I really am grateful for everything everybody's done,

especially you, Shirley.

Thank you.

How do I let off steam? Something that involves life and living.

I love Queen.

I LOVE Queen.

I want to break free!

# I want to break free

# I want to break free from your lies

# You're so self satisfied

# I don't need you

# I've got to break free

# God knows

# God knows I want to break free. #

A bit of a rock chick!

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