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on the 5th of November 2007 in the rural Village of red Mali in gloucestershire England 55 year old Kate Prout vanished
her husband Adrian claimed she'd walked out on him at first you know people's hearts went
out to him he'd been abandoned even though we've come by you had no concern about our well-being well I did
but I thought if things weren't good someone would have rung May or I assumed she was okay
he feels that he can just carry on and he and he converting keep stay the right things and this will
eventually go away despite no body being found the Friendly Farmer was convicted of Kate's murder
the entire Community was shocked goes to prison he maintains his innocence in the way that he has all the
way through this missing piece of that jigsaw is we've still got a missing body the trail went cold
an army of supporters campaigned to overturn this supposed miscarriage of Justice until 2010 when proud himself
completed the puzzle to be perfectly honest I just thought it was gonna be sick I'm so opposite him in
prison and he's just confessed that he's killed his wife after years of pleading his innocence
the Mars had finally slipped Adrian Prout had revealed himself as one of the world's most evil killers
foreign [Music] [Music] for four years after his wife disappeared farmer Adrian Prout claimed
that Kate was actually alive and well and in hiding it was a lie but it was one so
convincingly told it reeled in proud's friends family and the rural community in which the couple lived
he said that was her plan that was her plan to disappear and to get him done for murder so he said it was all set up
obviously we believed his lies and we were drawn into the Web of Lies we never knew
were lies people lie to the place all the time that's what they do there is a difference here
he's created a narrative and he has to live and breathe that narrative then he has to build on it and layer it
and every time he has an interaction with another individual or friends and family
that narrative has to stand scrutiny coercive men like Prouds they are incredibly accomplished they have a way
of actually reeling you in of convincing you that everything that they're saying
is true the seemingly friendly and helpful local farmer was difficult to connect to the
image of the manipulative killer he'd been proven to be it's a dichotomy in my mind because
there is this gentle being but now look at his hands and think you'd just take another person's life the outward
appearance doesn't come across as what's really going on internally this is a calculating murderer
[Applause] this Killer's Story begins in the village of Coley gloucestershire Adrian Michael Prout was born on the
14th of June 1962. he was the second youngest of four siblings his mother Jeanette
died shortly after the birth of her fourth child was two years old when his mother passed
away so this is something that is lacking in his life he doesn't have that relationship with a mother that is going
to be the basis on which he forms relationships with other women both Adrian's father and grandfather
were farmers and he grew up helping out on the Family Farms his dream was to one day have a farm of
his own prouts grew into a man who really did have quite a lot of ambition he wanted
to be successful he wanted to be seen to be successful he was a hard-working individual it was
always around farming he'd had connections locally he'd worked for people they were always very impressed
with the sort of things that he did he was an engaging and hard-working individual
he'd had a quite a successful pipeline business in 1999 after a couple of failed
relationships 37 year old Adrian Prout met Kate Wakefield Kate was a teacher and like proud came
from a farming family hey was the sister of a friend of his at this point in his
life Pratt was having a bit of a difficult time and Kate's brother offered to put him up in a property
whilst he got back on his feet and I think this is quite a significant thing because Pat had that friendship with her
brother he comes pre-vetted essentially Kate Wakefield is pretty nearly 10 years
older than Adrian Prout a wise woman hard-working thoughtful but is I think the phrase would be bowled over
by Adrian proud they were married within the space of a year and this is an incredibly
accelerated relationship the pace of it is incredibly fast initially they were seeing as the
perfect couple they gone on really well I think friends and family would describe them personality wise that they
were quite different so they're old adage that opposites attracts [Music] in 2004 Prout and Kate
by a farm called Red Hill Farm is near Red Mali in gloucestershire she can afford it because she's
inherited a cottage which she sold and she's contributing to the house this is quite an extensive quite an
impressive property and in this part of the country agriculture is quite a significant industry and Farmers have
some status they have a lot of land they have a lot of property so essentially Kate was for him the vehicle that
allowed him to reach this ambition and the things that she had were very attractive for her
at the age of 41 Adrian proud had achieved his lifelong goal of owning his own Farm
he's going to run pheasant shoots and she's going to cater for them at Red Molly
he's still got the pipeline business and as far as anyone can tell this is a perfectly happy stable relationship
and so it remains the couple ran successful pheasant shoots over the next two years but in
2006 there were signs that suggested their honeymoon period had come to an end there were some public interactions
and spats between the pair of them they were starting to be that glimmer of things that were not quite as people
were thought initially on boxing day 2006 things reached ahead during an argument over the family's
dinner plans starts in the kitchen and goes outside and it's at first time we see real
evidence of the violence that was beneath the surface in this apparently stable marriage
Prout pushes Kate against the Land Rover that they have with such Force the actually dents the car
she's frightened the cracks in the relationship became even more apparent two months later in
February 2007. plates had been thrown right across the kitchen had been a full-blown
confrontation once again the argument continued outside he had grabbed her by the neck and held
her over an empty swimming pool the police had been called I think it actually been arrested
she was to say later he went mad I really thought I'd had it there was no controlling him
this shows me that he's changing tactics at this point in time I think up until this point he's been using charm and
manipulation to get control and to get his own way but that is no longer working and with men like proud when
those techniques no longer work they resort to physical violence in November 2007 after months of living
with a volatile and violent husband Kate went to see her solicitor about divorcing Adrian Prout
the farm by now is valued at 1.3 million pounds Adrian is intent on hanging on to
it offers Kate six hundred thousand pounds to go Kay consults a solicitor and says no I want eight hundred
thousand the settlement of that size meant one thing Red Hill Farm would have to be
sold we know that that farm was always Adrian prout's dream to own a farm to run it
like that was always his dream there was a moment then that dawn of realization that he was going to lose the farm he
was going to lose everything he feels entitled to that farm he feels that farm is his he's very much about ownership
and possession of things and now he's got a barrier in between the farm and him and that barrier is Kate
Adrian Prout had no intention of giving up the farm but before any settlement could be finalized there was a
development Kate went missing hundreds and hundreds of people daily get reported to the police is missing
but it was the circumstances really around Kate's disappearance that was the concern
it had taken 45 year old Prout five days to report Kate's disappearance to the police
and he didn't appear to be a worried husband and you went even though weeks come by you had no concern about her
well-being then YouTube well I did but I thought if things weren't good someone would have rung me or
you know I assumed she was okay someone's lost a loved one is a powerful emotion that's what you need to see and
if they're not displaying that then immediately your suspicions are up you're worried and you need to be
looking into a little bit more proud freely admitted that he was not concerned by his wife's disappearance he
was suggesting she'd gone off on her own it's just something she wanted he wasn't
concerned she'd done it before at least some of the locals are convinced that Kate had just had enough and left to
start a new life it made sense to them this wasn't a happy couple Pratt was able to draw upon this victim
status that he'd stepped into my wife has left me she's going to take me to the cleaners Paul me and he used this to
his advantage in this situation because he's going to be saying things like why would I be in contact with her why would
I want to know where she is she's making my life such a misery it does sound feasible but when you
build into that that none of the family had heard from her at all she doesn't go to her niece's 18th
birthday party she doesn't contact anyone she's as far as anyone Can Tell She's disappeared into a puff of smoke
she might be wishing to split from a partner but you're still going to make social contact and you're still going to
have an interaction with your family none of that was happening from the minute Adrian proud reported
her missing investigators had been working through the possible reasons for Kate's disappearance there's been no
contact from Kate since you last Saw around lunchtime on Monday no three things likely to have happened
she's either had an accident somewhere and she's full of a horse or whatever it might be and she's out in the fields or
wherever she's gone off her own fruition she doesn't want to be found and hasn't
contacted anybody and wants to be on her own or something more sinister she's been murdered simple as that
you were aware that a car had been left Beyond were you aware of any other things that have been left behind that
that she'd normally have with her no I couldn't buy no car keys which was strange
so you always put in the drawer in the kitchen and they weren't there so I assumed she had a car keys with her
if she goes out I mean what stuff would she normally take with her other personal names I mean credit cards purse
things like that yeah and phone those things that are part of people's daily lives that they never let go of
all that was at the house she'd gone with nothing apart from ineffective clothes that she was wearing that's your
starting point that doesn't stack up at all that's not normal behavior for people
early investigations revealed only one trace of Kate after proud purported to have seen her the last third party
contact that had contacted she'd had with anybody else was to ring her bank on the late afternoon of that Monday on
that 5th of November how can I help you today [Music] from that Monday afternoon she literally
dropped off the radar she wasn't seen from or heard from again believing from the outset that it was
unlikely that Kate had as Adrian proud claimed walked out on her husband investigators were left with two
hypotheses either they want to go and kill themselves at suicide or chances are something more Sinister in the
circumstances so the police are exploring what exists in the background that would mean that someone wouldn't
want her to be around anymore and the information very quickly emerged that there was trouble in their marriage
that Kate was seeking a divorce and she'd been to see a divorce lawyer and he's going to lose the thing that he's
worked all his life for in the background we know that not only are things not well in that marriage but
there is a known level of violence and the police have been called previously by the 27th of November 2007 the Finger
of Suspicion was clearly pointing in One Direction Adrian Prout is arrested on suspicion of Kate's murder
proud maintained his story and an initial search at Red Hill Farm proved fruitless he'd given his version of
events that found nothing and as a consequence of that he leads the police station
convinced that there was a Sinister truth behind proud's claims of being the jilted husband
investigators began an intensive search of the farm is a very good chance based on his ability to work heavy machinery
in his pipeline business that the body is probably on the site why would you need to take her anywhere else if that's
the case and you've got 250 Acres you can't just search the whole lot so you have to be clever and smart in the way
that you approach it you use tactics like ground penetrating radar dogs that are used to finding bodies and can smell
that that's your location that's where you start the search team were hopeful of an early
lead when one of the dogs had a reaction inside the couple's home it got quite excited as these things do
around a sofa in the house but when a full forensic team went in and looked there was no evidence there whatsoever
the searches around the rest of the house and the land that sat around it went on for a night on five weeks there
was no physical evidence of a a disturbance a fight a murder homicide or indeed the moving of a body there was
nothing there foreign detectives were confident that Prout was a killer but with no sign of Kate they
were facing a so-called nobody murder case which is notoriously hard to prove where the body comes a huge wealth of
forensic evidence to help you unpick how they've died and who potentially has killed them
here you've got no body so you really are up against it [Music] Christmas Kate had been missing for
eight weeks but life for Adrian Prout appeared to continue unaffected Debbie garlic encountered him in a local
pub I was with my friend and Asian walked in with um somebody we know if he's in the pub by himself he
wouldn't have had a conversation with him but because he's with people that we knew really really well and sometimes
people would come back to my house for Jamie if the pub closed and everything else so that's what we did
as we walked out the landlord said be careful to me my friend I was like okay as soon as he got back he said do you
know do you know who I am and then he told us to survey later that night Debbie did some
research on the man she'd just met we just Googled everything man it was under suspicion of murder
one of our friends said there's no way that he would have done anything like that no way
everyone just thought she disappeared the police disagreed and on the 4th of January 2008 they publicly announced
their belief that Kate was dead two weeks later Adrian Prout was arrested for the second time they're
hoping that he's going to confess to doing what they think he's done there was no confession Adrian Prout
maintained that Kate had left of her own accord with the intention of stitching him up
there is no firm evidence it is all circumstantial so he'd have to go out and police bail you can't just hold
someone or charge someone without evidence that's when a challenging difficult and
protracted police investigation takes place and there is no easy answer to that investigators began focusing on Proof of
Life a common phrase within policing in legal terms ultimately it's about establishing
that somebody lives their life in a certain way interacting with banks finance institutions friends and family
Etc but at the moment in time it all stops there's no more interaction now that's unusual and the only
reasonable conclusion that you can reach is that person is no longer alive the police began the process of proving
not only that Kate Prout was dead but that she'd been murdered in May Debbie garlic had another chance
meeting with Prout in the pub by the next morning to put a note through my letterbox with his telephone
number on and said if you want give me a call we went out the following day and took a
picnic and then he said that he wouldn't have relationship with anybody because it
wasn't the right time but two days later Debbie heard from him again he phoned me and from the
Wednesday onwards we just started our relationship full on from there it had been six months since his wife
disappeared but proud had a seemingly plausible explanation for her prolonged absence she had gone off before and gone
on holiday with one of her sisters or something or sister-in-law and hadn't told him then where she was going
so he just thought that they were hiding him away he didn't want to be part of his life it
wasn't a big thing about where she was if you get what I mean as part of the ongoing investigation
indicates disappearance detectives had discovered she kept a diary this told a very different story to the one that
Adrian Prout was spinning she explains on over a number of entries over a period of weeks and months what's been
happening in her life the tension with Adrian the fact that she's worried and concerned
there are constant references to her being frightened of Adrian Prout references to the fact that he lost it
with me if you like it's the clearest evidence so far of the true nature of the marriage between Adrian and Kate
Prout all of that is good evidence as if it's almost like Kate's voice that's the
importance of it this is Kate talking through her diary despite the mounting evidence suggesting
Prout was weaving a Web of Lies in January 2009 he was told he was no longer a suspect and released from bail
that was the news that we obviously were hoping for and that's when we all moved up to the
farm together The Cloud of Suspicion appeared to have lifted Debbie and her two children moved
into Red Hill Farm with Prout they've reached a stage where we told him he's no longer a suspect I suspect
that was to try and Trigger some conversation with friends and family of him he might not confess it to the
police but he might confess it to a good mate or he might confess it to Debbie garlic
I think Prout feels incredibly Victorious at this point in time he feels like he has very successfully
pulled the wolf over everybody's eyes and this is a problem that has just gone away
in the background their investigation is continuing and they've gone to the crown
prosecution service around charging a month after moving in together the couple's world was turned upside down on
the 10th of March Debbie was home alone with her children we were sleeping bad and we just heard shouting
and um so we all just got out I wonder what the hell was going on and we walked into all these police in the house
they asked me not to phone Adrian but I did when proud returned home he didn't seem
concerned by the unfolding events I think he said something like here we go again and I'd saw something
and then they charged him with murder in front of us all and handcuffed him and check them away
we thought they must have found something then they must have found something for them for him to be charged
with murder Debbie was left assuming that Kate's body had been found but she was wrong
the police had been really active in progressing the inquiries and they've gone to the crown prosecution service so
they are going to be explaining what they've got the circumstantial evidence and they would be having to seek a
decision to charge him once you've reached that stage there wouldn't be a need for any continuation of bail or
anything of that nature he's coming in foreign Prout appeared later that day at Cheltenham Crown Court charged with the
murder of his wife Kate after a month in prison he was released on bail awaiting trial
he was saved can't believe I've been in prison and I can't believe that they thought I've done it I'm innocent
so we were like a few men with the police thinking that to put in prison for a month
for no reason out on bail life returned to normality and the couple celebrated some happy
news Debbie and Prout were engaged to be married extinct few people had made a comment
thinking um maybe that was a wrong decision that we made especially for Adrian's part
because he's still got a wife really we see this similar pattern happening again The Accelerated pace of a
relationship the need for that early commitment and this is something that happens frequently with men like proud
we had the occasion party and found out I was pregnant with my daughter which was a nice surprise and then we
found out the court case was going to be January 11th the same day that she was due
[Music] Debbie was induced a week early so that the birth of their daughter wouldn't
coincide with the trial he loved having a baby yay fed her changed her got up in the night
it was a Hands-On dad and then she was a week old when the court case started the evidence presented to the jury over
the course of three weeks was entirely circumstantial there is no forensic evidence there is
nothing to suggest more importantly physically if you like evidentially forensically that that Kate has been
killed that's why it took so long that's why this Proof of Life as the expression
which is a bit of a nuanced really because you're proving that someone's died rather than that they're alive
that's why it's so important I didn't go to court for the first three weeks but I went every day for the
fourth week because Adrian was convinced she'd be not guilty and so he wanted us
to walk out the court together to move on with the rest of our lives unusually in this case there were only
11 members of the jury and they retired to consider their verdict and then rumors ago in mind that it was nine
people together and two people weren't and I remember him said to me oh I can't believe two people think that I've done
it so he's thinking now that nine people think he's innocent and two people think
he's guilty the jury were clear ultimately that Kate was alive on the 5th of November and
within five days later she certainly she wasn't alive Adrian could only have been the person
that killed her ultimately so he had all of the motivation there sure that she wasn't around because she wasn't going
to get that money that's what's presented to the jury that's what they thought well actually
there's only one conclusion we can reasonably make here the verdict came that he was guilty
I just burst into tears of course he goes straight to prison then but we went home without him that day
which is really hard and our baby was four weeks old [Music] having never believed that he would be
found guilty proud's family had to face a harsh reality I went down to the post office to get every single Paper
that I could get all the papers were killer agent Pride agent price killed his wife nobody and even the chap you
own the shop precise time came out and and he put his arms around me when it's so wrong what's happened to him he said
you don't know you're getting married because that's what everyone was was like it wasn't just me it was everybody
on the 8th of February 2010 prior to a sentence to a minimum of 18 years in prison
but the convicted murderer maintained his innocence ultimately what you've got is you've got a guy that was charged
with murder been convicted and he's gone to prison the missing piece of that jigsaw is we've still got a missing body
somewhere we still think that that Kate is out there somewhere and we and we want to you know find her ultimately so
that will always remain open but you're gonna need some information before you can do anything else
I did not dancing I went to see him I asked him to find our daughter's life that if he has not killed Kate and he
sworn her life and said he hasn't killed her and then I got upset then because I
thought um that was bad for me to have died that he might have done something he might
have killed her so I felt really bad in myself then proud knows exactly what buttons to push
with Debbie he knows exactly the kind of things to say to make her feel bad for even raising the question so I think
that shows how manipulative he really is believing an innocent man had been jailed proud supporters were determined
to prove that Kate Prout was alive the only thing we could do was to prove he was innocent that the crime had not been
committed then obviously we started searching for Kate we put out a reward that if anyone added information on the
whereabouts of Cape price then obviously they would claim the reward and that's when it all started to begin the
campaigned to get him out of prison Debbie's campaign caught the attention of Veteran reporter Tom Hendry he was a
woman who still believed even though he was in jail that he was innocent and she
launched a huge crusade to dry and find Kate and as a result I realized there was potential for a really great story
Tom became Debbie's media advisor and assisted with the appeal for information on Kate's true whereabouts we had a
number of sightings one was in Cork in southern Ireland somebody got in touch they said it
looked like hey and she was a tutor and Kate was teacher we actually thought we'd got a
we went over to Ireland the news agencies and a photographer I didn't go personally and Debbie was joking you
know as to if if if K if Kate had turned up it would have been a film made and who would have played her
every single member of agent's family and my family came up and we waited for the telephone call to say that it was
okay but the telephone call come through to say that it obviously wasn't Kate so
we were all devastated about that and then we had a site in Scarborough and that wasn't her either
we did articles on news we did articles in the paper for any information on the website to do with the missed Co
suggested they were looking into that for us proud is going along with this but the
outcome that he wants is to get out of prison and he will be using people to his Advantage you won't be feeling bad
about it he doesn't see his family and friends in the way that most people do other people exist in terms of what they
can do for him so he was simply surrounded by useful people at this point in time
desperate to prove that there had been a miscarriage of Justice proud supporters
were running out of options until journalist Tom Henry had an unconventional idea
it had gone on for so long I thought if this guy proud took a lie detector test that would prove maybe once and for all
if he was telling the truth or not and Debbie agreed I was like couldn't wait for the
headline to be age in practice innocent he's just passed to the lie detector test
Debbie and Tom visited Prout in Bristol prison we our stage Jennifer do a lie detector test an agent agreed straight
away [Music] I didn't have any suspicions about him he was very calm very controlled and
therefore you know you know I didn't smell any kind of rat at all Don Cargill one of the UK's leading
polygraph experts arranged to conduct a test on Adrian in prison bear in mind this Adrian who was wanting the test I
thought he would have great this is my day of you know the truthful out and I'll be proven to be a non-killer and
wrongly convicted but the reality was it was a frozen reaction he didn't really want to do this which really that did
take you by surprise I left him alone for about 20 minutes went back and he said I suppose I better
do it I suppose I better do it for Debbie's sake and I said no no no no no do it for your own side
the questions put to Adrian Prout during the test were very straightforward did he kill his wife Kate Prout
did he pay someone else to do it and did he know where the body was he said no to
all three questions so when we did the test three times I looked at the results and quite clearly you had murdered his
wife and I did say to him I'm sorry but I'm looking at a murderer and he just went
well are you saying my test is wrong and he said Don cargo phone me up and she said
Debbie you're you're engaged to a murderer and that was Don's words it was just so emotional I didn't want
to believe it and of course my plans have all gone out the window now because obviously the plan was it was gonna pass
plan was we're going to go to the papers agent pranks passed but everything stopped
there was no further forward now maybe he was so arrogant uh proud that he thought he could beat this
test and clearly he couldn't my sister said to me that if he'd done it you'd have gone to
the papers you'd have believed it so really you should believe in it that he's failed it there he has done his
murderer because you can't believe one way and not the other when Debbie visited Prout he was adamant
that the polygraph had been rigged and professed his innocence here he brings back that victim Persona
poor me everybody's against me everybody's out to get me for the next couple of months it was
strained between us both the phone calls Australian I think he knew that failing that however much he
tried to deny it it changed all our minds [Music] my thoughts now have gone to Kate's
family so we're protesting his innocence and these poor people now have lost Kate
and for the last year I've never thought about their feelings and so my I wanted
to find out the chief for their sake and for Kate's sake that was my plan now the plan had
changed I just I just knew we would get to the bottom of it but I didn't know when
in November 2011 three months after the failed polygraph test Debbie visited Adrian Prout determined to get an answer
once and for all I went there with my sister and I did say that I'd stick by him but then I didn't always think I'd
get the answer that I did I said um if you have killed Kate and I will stand by you but you need to tell me the
truth so we can give Kate a proper funeral and he just said she's had one well I knew then he'd killed her
I just I don't think me and my sister knew what to say we just sat there because I think we to be perfectly
honest I just thought I was gonna be sick now the floodgates had finally been opened Prout did not hold back he said
that they argued and she uh the money that she wanted and they started arguing and he
strangled her he went to the pub and then got back in buried her in the woods he said he Dig a Hole by hand and
he had to shoot the next day and carried on as normal and the police never found one bit of
evidence of that one of the detectives came in and said we've just had Adrian's girlfriend come
to the police station and say that Adrian has confessed that he's killed Kate Prout
there's the potential that we've got that final piece of the jigsaw So within 24 hours we've got police officers at
the prison talking to him and he may well have said no I didn't say that made it all up but he didn't
this morning I'm going to read you a prepared statement in relation to why we are here
the statement goes yesterday morning we received some new and significant information in relation to the murder of
Kate Prout agreed to show police where he'd buried his wife from his prison cell handcuffed
to a policeman the convicted killer and now confessed murderer Adrian Prout returns to the farm where he committed
his crime he took us to a location on a hill which was a quite an extensive piece of
Woodland probably a bit bigger than a football pitch there was no x marks to spot for sure
so where he'd initially pointed out we dug and unsuccessfully so we couldn't find Kate and what we brought in then
were Godiva dogs so sniffing dogs to see if we could find a body and they did the
usual dog thing of sniffing places and that was unsuccessful and then we used ground penetrating Raider as well and
that didn't help either and day one day two after that could only be described the initial excitement really that
actually we might solve this and we could do this really quickly now and move it on that wasn't happening
the media had taken over the chocolate box Village of red Mali and expectations were high precious massive the pressure
was huge waiting for for something to happen finally on day four the search team made
the Grim discovery at one o'clock this afternoon we have found human remains close to the
location Adrian Prout identified as the place he buried his wife I just cried for her family
and it must have been horrendous for them I thought they were hiding us so I thought they knew where she was but for
them they knew that she was dead because she would have been in contact with them
they had to live all that time knowing that she's just been buried somewhere and concealed and would they ever get
her back one of those days I don't think they thought they would [Music] Cade's family were finally able to lay
her to rest in January 2012. more than four years after she'd been killed that information came from
Debbie at that moment in time if it hadn't then service sentence life moves on it may never have come out
Adrian Prout will be eligible to apply for parole in 2028. as an individual I struggle with the concept of being
able to harm someone in the way that he has but not just to do that but to harm so many other people around him as a
consequence that's not normal for human behavior everybody was fooled by him lie detector
test proved that I was among them but he was a very convincing liar [Music] scars remain for those who were burned
by proud lies he took away the family that we all were going to have together you don't expect things like that to
happen to your family my daughter I think that's the hardest part because she's we always have to be
growing up knowing that her dad's in prison and he's a murderer [Music] Prout was a master manipulator whose
selfishness knew no limits he killed his wife just to avoid having to give her what was rightfully hers
then he played the jilted husband and crawly pulled others into his Web of Lies he never had a thought for anyone but
himself making Adrian Prout one of Britain's most evil killers [Music] foreign [Music]

Season 7, Episode 8

Adrian Prout, a master manipulator accused of the murder of his wife was eventually caught by a polygraph test - and his own fiancée.

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Brief Summary

Adrian Prout murdered his wife Kate, manipulating the community before confessing years later.

Key points

The Disappearance of Kate Prout. On November 5, 2007, Kate Prout vanished, leading to a shocking murder case.
Adrian Prout's Confession. After years of denying involvement, Prout confessed to killing his wife.
The Web of Lies. Adrian Prout spun a convincing narrative about his wife's disappearance.
The Arrest of Adrian Prout. On November 27, 2007, suspicion turned into action as Prout was arrested.
The Diary's Revelation. Kate's diary revealed her fears and the truth about her marriage.
The Shocking Arrest. Debbie's world turns upside down when Adrian is charged with murder in front of her.

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This is a calculating murderer.

Describing the duality of Adrian Prout's character.

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