Season 6 - Episode 42

DESCRIPTION: 

Spend your days in constant excruciating pain or be allowed to peacefully end your life on your own terms? A deliberate act of murder or violent assault? Personal opinions are divided concerning the death of Mark Van Dongen…

*** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** 

This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane

Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton

Narration, editing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton

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MUSIC: 

The Void by Cody Martin 

Crooked Man by Wicked Cinema 

Colony by Wicked Cinema 

Vanished by Wicked Cinema 

Aqueducts by Falls 

A Simple Gesture by Shimmer 

A Future With No Names by Stephen Keech 

Retention by Lincoln Davis 

The Arctic by Gold Coast 

Kindness by Outside The Sky 

Am I Dreaming by Moments 

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REFERENCES: 

COURT DOCUMENTS

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/r-v-wallace-sentencing.pdf  

https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/5b46f2212c94e0775e7f273a#  

DIGITAL ARTICLES

THE TIMES

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/acid-victim-mark-van-dongen-spelt-name-of-attacker-berlinah-wallace-by-pointing-at-letters-with-tongue-jt0pxbcgt#  

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/suicide-victim-mark-van-dongen-murdered-by-girlfriend-berlinah-wallace-in-acid-attack-bristol-crown-court-told-577xp76kn   

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/life-sentence-for-spurned-lover-berlinah-wallace-who-disfigured-ex-mark-van-dongen-in-acid-attack-gsh66v9s2  

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jealous-student-who-poured-acid-over-boyfriend-cleared-of-murder-fjjrgkgnc  

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-neurosurgeon-henry-marsh-on-why-assisted-dying-should-be-legalised-d0qm3wrl8  

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/acid-victim-mark-van-dongen-spelt-name-of-attacker-berlinah-wallace-by-pointing-at-letters-with-tongue-jt0pxbcgt#  

BRISTOL POST

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/fashion-student-berlinah-wallace-accused-1505686  

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/mark-van-dongen-died-euthanasia-1491941  

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/engineer-mark-van-dongen-who-1496215  

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/mark-van-dongen-told-police-1500174  

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/updates-father-mark-van-dongen-749686  

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/updates-woman-trial-murder-accused-743410

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/full-father-bristol-acid-attack-1596011 

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/berlinah-wallace-fascinated-acid-visited-1579405

THE GUARDIAN

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/08/man-died-in-euthanasia-clinic-after-acid-attack-trial-told  

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/09/mark-van-dongen-berlinah-wallace-trial-acid-attack-son-speech  

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/10/man-told-police-of-blackmail-weeks-before-acid-attack-court-told  

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/03/woman-in-acid-trial-says-she-felt-so-sad-over-boyfriends-injuries  

THE SUN

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2782806/woman-charged-with-murder-after-ex-dies-15-months-after-uks-first-fatal-acid-attack-which-left-him-paralysed-from-the-neck-down/  

BBC NEWS

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-43975990  

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-43862384  

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-44003531  

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-43988075  

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-44159508  

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-43838866  

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-42166912  

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-38570439  

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-41914798  

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-43949310  

BELFAST TELEGRAPH

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/timeline-how-acid-attack-case-unfolded-36938331.html   

SKY NEWS

https://news.sky.com/story/live-acid-murder-accused-gives-evidence-11356648#  

https://news.sky.com/story/berlinah-wallace-found-guilty-of-acid-attack-on-ex-boyfriend-11375729  

https://news.sky.com/story/live-woman-accused-of-acid-murder-gives-evidence-11355605 

DAILY NEWS

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5740839/Woman-48-threw-acid-ex-lover-acquitted-murder.html  

DAILY RECORD 

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/crime/listen-harrowing-999-call-after-12553370  

NEWSBANK

Bristol Evening Post (England), May 28, 2018

Legal Monitor Worldwide (Jordan), May 17, 2018

Bristol Evening Post: Web Edition Articles (England), May 14, 2018

Additional information and audio courtesy of Avon and Somerset Police