DESCRIPTION:
Saturday, April 18th, 1998. In the early hours of the morning, two police officers were dispatched to the scene of a disturbance at a car park near Dolphin Square and Oxford Street in Weston-Super-Mare. PC Clive Golding-Ellis and PC Robert Deville were expecting a standard weekend drunken brawl. They saw something much different and considerably more disturbing. A woman was lying on the ground; her skin blistered and distorted with extensive burns that covered her head and upper body. As the officers urgently called for an ambulance, they spoke to a man standing nearby, drinking from a can of lager. He was drunk and told the officers, "I tried to put her out. The flames kept going back again”…
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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.
Edited by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions.
Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton
Narration, editing assistance, additional writing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.
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MUSIC:
Beyond all Time by Moments.
Fight or Flight by Yerself
Hold This Place by Alice In Winter
Distances by Salon Dijon
Onward by Chelsea McGough
Memoir by Lincoln Davis
Recognize by Grant Borland
Undercover by Cody Martin
Honour Earned by Cody Martin
Bamburgh by Stephen Keech
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REFERENCES:
COURT / POLICE
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/R-v-Craig-sentencing-remarks.pdf
https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/news/2022/11/man-jailed-for-second-time-for-petrol-attack-following-murder-conviction/
https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/news/2022/10/man-convicted-of-murder-decades-after-he-set-woman-alight/
https://web.archive.org/web/20221110124620/https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/news/2022/11/i-spent-21-years-of-feeling-grateful-and-thankful-for-every-extra-day-that-i-got-to-spend-with-my-mum/
NEWSPAPERS
Weston and Worle News - Thu, Apr 22, 1999 - Page 6
Weston and Worle News - Thu, Mar 25, 1999 - Page 12
Weston and Worle News - Thu, Apr 22, 1999 - Page 6
The Guardian - Thu, Apr 27, 2000 - Page 11
The Daily Telegraph - Thu, Apr 27, 2000 - Page 3
Evening Post - Fri, Mar 19, 1999 - Page 2
Western Daily Press - Sat, Mar 20, 1999 - Page 11
Weston and Worle News - Thu, Mar 25, 1999 - Page 12
The Guardian - Thu, Apr 27, 2000 - Page 11
The Guardian - Thu, May 11, 2000 - Page 6
ONLINE ARTICLES
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12190795.rape-trial-jury-told-of-fire-torture/
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-57383560
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-63205521
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/10/man-on-trial-for-of-partner-who-died-21-years-after-he-set-her-on-fire
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/11/3
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/28/steven-craig-guilty-jacqueline-kirk-murder-somerset
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/10/man-jailed-for-life-over-of-partner-21-years-after-fire-attack
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-63351734
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-63220011
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-63372831
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-63298743
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-63378923
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-63570131
NEWSBANK
Bristol Evening Post (England), April 27, 2000
Daily Mirror, The (London, England), April 27, 2000
Independent, The (London, England), April 27, 2000
Sun, The (London, England), April 27, 2000
Western Daily Press (Bristol, England), April 27, 2000
Bristol Evening Post (England), April 28, 2000
Bristol Evening Post (England), April 29, 2000
Bristol Evening Post (England), May 3, 2000
Bristol Evening Post (England), May 4, 2000
Bristol Evening Post (England), May 5, 2000
Bristol Evening Post (England), May 8, 2000
Times, The (London, England), May 11, 2000
Western Daily Press (Bristol, England), June 12, 2001
Aldershot News & Mail - StarCourier (England), August 8, 2002
Bradford Telegraph and Argus (England), June 4, 2021
Bristol Post: Web Edition Articles (England), June 4, 2021
Daily Telegraph, The/The Sunday Telegraph: Web Edition Articles (London, England), June 4, 2021
Huddersfield Daily Examiner: Web Edition Articles (England), June 4, 2021
Somerset County Gazette (Taunton, England), June 4, 2021
Daily Telegraph, The (London, England), June 5, 2021
Times, The (London, England), June 5, 2021
Western Daily Press (Bristol, England), June 5, 2021
Bristol Post: Web Edition Articles (England), June 7, 2021
Burnham & Highbridge Weekly News (Burnham on Sea-Highbridge, England), June 7, 2021
Bristol Post (England), June 8, 2021
Northern Echo, The (Darlington, England), June 8, 2021
Guardian, The: Web Edition Articles (London, England), October 10, 2022
Bristol Post (England), October 11, 2022
Western Daily Press (Bristol, England), October 11, 2022
Bradford Telegraph and Argus (England), October 28, 2022
Daily Mirror, The: Web Edition Articles (London, England), October 28, 2022
Evening Standard: Web Edition Articles (London, England), October 28, 2022
Independent, The/The Independent on Sunday: Web Edition Articles (London, England), October 28, 2022
MailOnline (London, England), October 28, 2022
Sun, The: Web Edition Articles (London, England), October 28, 2022
Weston & Somerset Mercury (England), October 28, 2022
Gazette, The (Teesside, England), October 29, 2022
Times, The (London, England), October 29, 2022
Western Daily Press (Bristol, England), October 29, 2022
Huddersfield Daily Examiner: Web Edition Articles (England), October 30, 2022
Bristol Post: Web Edition Articles (England), November 10, 2022
Daily Mirror, The: Web Edition Articles (London, England), November 10, 2022
Daily Telegraph, The/The Sunday Telegraph: Web Edition Articles (London, England), November 10, 2022
Express, The/The Express on Sunday: Web Edition Articles (London, England), November 10, 2022
Independent, The/The Independent on Sunday: Web Edition Articles (London, England), November 10, 2022
MailOnline (London, England), November 10, 2022
Independent, The/The Independent on Sunday: Web Edition Articles (London, England), November 11, 2022
Times, The (London, England), November 11, 2022
Times, The: Web Edition Articles (London, England), November 11, 2022
Western Daily Press (Bristol, England), November 11, 2022
Independent, The/The Independent on Sunday: Web Edition Articles (London, England), November 12, 2022
Times, The (London, England), November 17, 2022
Western Daily Press (Bristol, England), December 14, 2022