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Hello and welcome to episode 392 of

2:07

the UK True Crime Podcast. I'm

2:10

Adam, a day late after

2:12

being waylaid by a beer or two yesterday. After

2:14

the latest disappointment in a lifetime of

2:17

watching the mighty United, I think

2:19

I need a bit of understanding here.

2:21

I look forward as well in your world

2:23

and remember it still isn't too late to

2:25

get tickets for my live shows at Customs

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House in South Shields on Sunday and at

2:30

the Glee Club in Birmingham on Monday.

2:33

Check out all the details in the show

2:35

notes. Now today's story

2:37

comes from the southwest of England and

2:39

once again features that emotion we probably see

2:41

more than any other on this podcast, jealousy.

2:46

So let's set the context for today's story with

2:48

our guest of month in year game. Top

2:51

of the UK music charts was Promises from

2:53

Calvin Harris and Sam Smith. In

2:55

the US, Eminem was at number three with

2:57

kill shots and in Australia

3:00

at number three was Shotgun from

3:02

George Ezra who incidentally my mum

3:04

taught at junior school. In

3:07

the news this month, a major fire at

3:09

the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de

3:11

Janeiro destroyed most of its

3:13

20 million artifacts. This

3:16

month shockingly saw the first public caning

3:18

and conviction of a lesbian

3:21

couple attempting to have sex by

3:23

a Sharia High court in Malaysia.

3:25

Now this appalling event wasn't the 1600s and

3:28

in the UK a

3:30

huge fire destroyed part of

3:32

the Little Woods Pools building, one

3:34

of the most famous landmarks in Liverpool. The

3:37

Office for National Statistics reported

3:39

that life expectancy improvements in

3:41

the UK had stalled for

3:43

the first time since records

3:45

began and finally in UK true

3:48

crime news three men became

3:50

the first people to receive jail sentences

3:52

for an anti-fracking protest in the

3:55

UK. So

3:57

did you get the month in year? It was

3:59

September. 2018?

4:01

Ah well, next

4:03

week maybe. Today's

4:06

story comes from Bugle, a village amid

4:08

Cornwall lining 5 miles north of St.

4:10

Austal and about 215 miles south west

4:12

of London. Perhaps

4:15

you're heading that way this summer? Why

4:17

not with all the attractions we found in Cornwall

4:20

and often barmy climate, beautiful beaches

4:23

as well as the ridiculously overpriced

4:25

airbnbs and hotels? When

4:28

we pick up the story today, James Field

4:30

was 35. Originally

4:32

from Torpoint to near Plymouth, he

4:35

had moved west and was living in a bed sitting

4:37

in Truro in Cornwall. Formally

4:39

employed by a housing company, James

4:42

had had his demons and endured some

4:44

very difficult years in his personal battle

4:46

with drug addiction. Progress

4:48

though was being made. He'd

4:50

found new employment as a labourer on a

4:53

building site in Newquay and

4:55

he had begun to reconnect with his family following

4:57

a period of being estranged. Other

5:01

relationships in his life too were challenging.

5:04

His relationship with a 31-year-old Lindsay Gabriel

5:07

was renowned for its volatility and

5:10

tempestuous nature despite it

5:12

being a relatively recent relationship. They'd

5:15

been seeing each other for around 5 months

5:17

with Lindsay living in Bugle and

5:19

James staying able with Lindsay perhaps a couple of

5:21

nights a week when they were both free. It

5:25

was a fraught pairing and certainly

5:27

friends and local people were aware that

5:29

it was often a far from harmonious

5:31

ride between the pair. Lindsay

5:34

wasn't working at the time but doing a

5:36

college course in mechanics at Cornwall College, she'd

5:39

one child a 13-year-old son from a

5:41

previous relationship. It's

5:43

fair to say that Lindsay had trust issues

5:46

and she demonstrated jealous nature and

5:48

constant paranoia that James was being unfaithful

5:51

to her. She believed

5:53

in to be having affairs with various women

5:56

and an example of this was when she

5:58

secretly logged into James' Facebook account. Here's.

6:01

You saw it as a that number of women as

6:04

friends. As innocent a thing

6:06

as this may well have been it.

6:08

Embrace to Lindsay, you said very clearly

6:10

with James how this made her feel.

6:13

At first it was text messages. Furious.

6:16

Ones warning: James A. did not know what

6:18

she was capable of. Perhaps.

6:21

At this stage. Even Lindsay herself

6:23

the not, fully comprehend what she was

6:25

capable of. An answer just idle

6:27

threats. But. She

6:29

wasn't messing about. James

6:31

A Bull a Vauxhall Astra was you

6:33

plan to do a Pan Salaam for

6:35

profit. This. Car be left

6:38

or Lindsey's driveway. That. Following her

6:40

Facebook findings, she made sure that James

6:42

his plans for the call would never

6:44

materialized. I'm. Just his

6:46

the pain she said about the face

6:49

in the car painting the was cheap,

6:51

wastes a lion player on the paint

6:53

what and smashing windows before wrapping it

6:55

completely and paper. Said.

6:58

Arranged have it's heard away and

7:00

scraps all of course. Unbeknown to

7:02

James. In the next display

7:04

for fury towards him, she called his boss

7:06

it weren't. To say that saves the

7:08

billiard back into the world or drugs? He.

7:10

Was no longer clean. And

7:12

will be unsafe. Employees have had

7:15

a potentially dangerous building sites as

7:17

he was constantly under the influence

7:20

of hard drugs. This.

7:22

Was of course an act of sabotage

7:24

which she thought would see James losing

7:26

his employments. It was cool and

7:28

it was damaging. But. There's more to

7:30

follow. Next.

7:33

There were more phone calls and text

7:35

messages. Throughout. The day

7:37

of Friday The Twenty Eight for

7:39

September Suddenly sorry for peace towards

7:41

him. Get. This. Even

7:43

threatening to kill his grandma. Have a nice.

7:47

Having begun to understand this

7:49

viciousness from Lindsay, i'm

7:52

realizing she could potentially carry out

7:54

how threats same to me to took

7:56

a cab from his home it's

7:58

was grandma's to ensure she was safe.

8:02

Having found her to be safe from well I

8:04

relieved James and went on to Lindsay's house in

8:06

Bugle so talks to clear the

8:08

air between them. But even

8:10

as he travelled towards her house he

8:12

was still receiving the most appalling messages

8:15

from Lindsay, this time warning that

8:17

she was going to shoot his grandma. James

8:20

arrived at her house not knowing

8:22

what to expect. When

8:24

his taxi pulled up Lindsay immediately called

8:26

999 but

8:28

rather than speak to the police she simply left the

8:30

phone line open so the call

8:32

handler heard exactly what happened next. James

8:36

was heard demanding to know where his car was

8:38

before Lindsay began repeatedly shouting at him

8:40

to get out of my house over

8:42

and over again. Next

8:45

came a scream from Lindsay before

8:48

she could be heard shouting that James had stabbed

8:50

himself. During

8:52

the commission Lindsay's 13 year old son

8:54

picked up the receiver and told the

8:56

police, my old stepdad has

8:58

rammed the door and now he's stabbed himself.

9:02

James staggered outside and onto the street

9:04

clutching a bloodied wound to his chest.

9:07

Lindsay then emerged from the house and approached

9:09

a crowd of people who were gathered nearby

9:11

having heard the noise. She was shouting don't

9:14

go anywhere near him he's got a knife

9:16

and he's stabbed himself. James

9:19

fell onto the pavement very

9:21

quickly appeared to stop moving. Members

9:24

of the public rushed to his aid and

9:26

did their best to help him before the

9:28

emergency services arrived at about 10 to 8

9:31

and they also did their best to keep James

9:33

alive. He was

9:35

rushed through to the nearby hospital but

9:38

was sadly pronounced dead soon after. James

9:41

was just 35 years old when

9:43

he died from his wounds. As

9:46

James lost his fight for life local

9:48

residents were stunned into that disbelief we

9:50

hear about so often on this podcast

9:53

when shocking violence encroaches on our

9:55

lives our neighborhoods. One

9:58

resident at the time summed this up. You

10:00

just don't know who lives around here now. Normally

10:03

this village is quiet, it's frightening for

10:05

something like this to happen, so near

10:08

to home. I

10:10

thought it was a car accident when I saw the

10:12

blue flashing lights. I've lived here all

10:14

my life, I don't know quite what's going

10:16

on. Lindsay was arrested

10:18

at the scene on suspicion of murder, which

10:21

quickly progressed to her being charged with

10:23

murder and someone to

10:25

appear at Truro Magistrate's court three days

10:28

after James' death. In

10:30

the meantime, his necks of care were informed

10:33

and summoned to the awful prospect of

10:35

having to formally identify his body. We

10:38

say this line most weeks as if

10:41

it's nothing, but of course

10:43

anyone who has had to perform this task will

10:45

understand the enormity of just what is

10:47

involved. In

10:50

terms of suspects, this wasn't a difficult trawl for

10:52

the police. With Lindsay

10:54

in police custody they were not seeking anyone

10:57

else in connection with the incident. What they

11:00

did have to find out though was whether

11:02

Lindsay had murdered James or whether,

11:04

as she would claim, he had turned the

11:06

knife upon himself. When

11:09

appearing via video link at Plymouth Crown

11:11

Court she entered a not guilty plea

11:13

which ensured she would have the opportunity

11:16

to express her side of the story at a

11:18

forward trial. Dressed

11:20

in a drab grey tracksuit, she

11:23

set in passively during the proceedings where

11:25

a trial date was set for the 25th of

11:27

March 2019,

11:30

some six months after James Field had died.

11:34

The trial was delayed several times before

11:36

finally beginning in March 2019 at Truro Crown

11:40

Court. It opened

11:42

with elements of farce as

11:44

the court was told that Lindsay would not be physically

11:47

present for the first day in court as

11:49

the prison van had forgotten to pick her up that

11:51

morning. You couldn't make it

11:53

upright. The prosecution

11:55

opened their case. They

11:58

Said that what happened on the evening of the 20th of August 2019 was not a case. September

12:00

was really very straightforward. Say.

12:03

Thirty that Lindsay had forced to be

12:06

stabbed James River chest. With. A

12:08

kitchen knife as he arrived at home. The.

12:11

Single sapper to penetrated his ribs and

12:13

his heart. Leave. Him with

12:15

no chance of surviving his injuries.

12:18

The impact of a knife cause eleven the

12:20

house and smith a laceration through his body.

12:24

Processes. Embarrassing J Mouth and

12:26

Qc. Said that she must

12:28

have stabbed him the clay intention to kill.

12:31

Or. The very least effect serious

12:33

harm upon him. She.

12:35

Described the couple's relationship with tempestuous

12:37

and said that Lindsay was fixated

12:40

on have believed that James of

12:42

having affairs or with contacting other

12:44

women. This agitated James

12:46

he believes he was may be paranoid and

12:48

I came from found that. He's.

12:51

The martin was able to divulge the

12:53

court information about the lead up to

12:56

James is murder. On

12:58

the twenty seventh September they were angry.

13:00

tax I'm Lindsay to James. He's

13:03

stayed the night for her home. And

13:05

see believed he took her phone

13:07

charging cable. Semesters,

13:09

Became more angry and james apologize. I

13:12

can occur as mistake. I'm sorry. The.

13:15

Evening he said that Texas Aggie loved her.

13:18

And. At the end of the Twenty Seven, September.

13:20

Everything. Seems to be okay. The.

13:23

Following morning Dame sent her a what's

13:25

that message asking how she was. But

13:28

this message with never delivered. Having

13:31

that received, this message is that this

13:33

stays at Lindsay. Began checking

13:35

james his face but. And

13:37

so a number of new women haven't

13:39

accepted friend requests from him. As

13:42

we've already had. This may Lindsay extremely.

13:44

I rates and that was sending a series

13:47

of fear Is messages throughout the day. For.

13:50

His part James it just tried to pacify

13:52

her. By. Telling head of the

13:54

people eat at his friends on facebook. With.

13:57

Mean he is workmates, girlfriends, Lindsay

14:00

clearly thought less of this explanation, dismissing

14:03

James' story when telling a friend

14:05

about it, saying, Who does

14:07

he think I am? Snow White

14:09

or Batman? I'm Lindsay

14:11

fucking Gabriel. It

14:14

was at this stage that she'd seemingly become

14:16

intent on making James' life very difficult and

14:19

looking for revenge. Having

14:22

called his employer and told him that James had

14:24

gone back to using drugs and was working under

14:26

the influence, the court heard that

14:28

Lindsay left James a voice message saying, You

14:31

scummy smack head, you won't

14:33

have a job Monday. You think

14:35

you're using me, but you're only making me stronger.

14:38

Good luck with your Facebook slags. I

14:41

wasn't enough for you. You haven't

14:43

seen anything yet, James. James

14:46

arrived at Lindsay's address at 7.50pm

14:49

and the prosecution barrister described what happened

14:51

upon his arrival. At

14:55

7.51pm Lindsay died 9.99 and

14:57

the call picks up a man's voice saying,

14:59

Where's my car? The

15:01

Crown says there can be no doubt that it's James'

15:03

field. Eight seconds

15:05

or so into the call, Lindsay can be heard

15:07

to shout, Get out of my house, get out

15:09

of my house. Eight

15:12

seconds or so into the call, Lindsay Gabriel can

15:14

be heard to shout, Get out of my

15:16

house, get out of my house. She shouts

15:18

this six or seven times. One

15:22

minute 21 seconds into the call she

15:24

screams he stabbed himself. At

15:27

7.52pm James Field staggered 15 metres from

15:29

the front door to the roadside where

15:32

he collapsed. Her

15:34

family, travelling in the car, driven past and

15:36

saw a man lying on the pavement with his head on the

15:39

main road clearly not moving. Lindsay

15:42

Gabriel remained on the phone swearing about there

15:45

being blood all over the floor. She

15:48

said to the operator, I rang him

15:50

and put the phone down because he was kicking the door

15:53

and Lindsay's son who had been upstairs playing

15:55

on his Xbox then took over the

15:57

call to the operator and gave the address to the

15:59

house. When the

16:02

operator pressed the young man for more

16:04

details, it was at this time

16:06

that the teenager reported that James was

16:08

kicking the door in and had stabbed himself. Lindsay

16:12

had then gone outside shouting at people to be

16:14

wary as James had a knife while

16:16

she kicked away his rucksack as he lay motionless

16:19

on the floor. But

16:21

the barrister added that when onlookers attempted CPR

16:23

and flipped him over, they could

16:25

see he didn't have a weapon in his possession. Lindsay

16:29

then went back into the house and made a quick

16:31

call to her dad asking him to

16:33

pick up her son before the police made

16:35

the inevitable call back to the house. When

16:38

the police did call back, Lindsay told them

16:40

she was upstairs while James had began kicking

16:42

the door in. She

16:45

told them he was armed with a knife with blood all over

16:47

the house. She said that James

16:49

had stabbed her and kicked him the door holding

16:51

a knife in his hand. Lindsay

16:54

left the phone and didn't return for three and a

16:56

half minutes during which time someone

16:58

had heard going downstairs and the door opening.

17:02

An arriving police officer went into the

17:04

property and noticed a broken

17:06

door panel with bits of wood lying strewn

17:08

all over the floor and

17:10

the hallway of the house was soaked in blood which

17:13

was littered with toilet paper from

17:15

a half-hearted attempt at mopping the blood up.

17:19

The prosecution then described how the

17:21

investigation had progressed from the apparent

17:23

suicide to a murder investigation. After

17:26

all, had it been a suicide

17:28

by James stabbing himself, it

17:30

stood to reason that the knife must have been

17:33

in very close proximity to him but it

17:35

wasn't. Police searched

17:37

inside of the house in an attempt to find

17:39

the weapon but it couldn't be found. A PC

17:43

Hawkins with his police dog Roscoe

17:45

then attempted to search around the vicinity of

17:48

the property. Roscoe

17:50

was specially trained to pick up human

17:52

sense and when searching down an

17:54

alleyway that ran down the side of the house Roscoe

17:57

stopped and indicated a drain which

17:59

was heavily littered, but

18:02

beneath this was a blood-stained kitchen knife.

18:05

There were no signs of blood spots to the

18:07

drain from the front or back door, so

18:10

the knife could clearly not have been put there

18:12

by James. Furthermore,

18:14

evidence from a pathologist confirmed

18:17

the fact that James couldn't have stamped

18:19

himself, they couldn't have been self-inflicted. Zabarasa

18:23

continued, there can be no

18:25

doubt that the knife that killed James Field

18:27

came from Lindsay Gabriel's kitchen, and

18:30

it could only have got to the drain by

18:32

Lindsay Gabriel or her son putting it there. James

18:35

Field could not have done it because he was

18:37

lying out front. Lindsay

18:40

had the time to get rid of the knife in

18:42

the two and a half minutes when she left the

18:44

phone upstairs and you can hear things

18:46

going on downstairs. Neither

18:48

Lindsay nor her son would have any

18:50

reason to get rid of the knife if

18:53

James Field had stabbed himself. Also

18:56

citing the fact that Lindsay means

18:58

her obviously furious with James throughout

19:00

the day, Zabarasa told jurors that she'd

19:02

even deleted one of her text messages to

19:04

James, where she proclaimed herself

19:06

to be hell-bent on revenge.

19:10

After the prosecution had outlined the basis

19:12

of events and how they believed

19:14

things to have unfolded, it

19:16

was a turn of the accused Lindsay Gabriel

19:19

to take to the witness stand. Lindsay

19:22

did her best to portray James as

19:24

negatively as possible, describing

19:26

how his behaviour had changed and he was

19:28

becoming down and snappy. She

19:31

said she was constantly worried about his mental

19:33

health and how he was drinking to excess.

19:37

She claimed he would regularly make threats

19:39

against her and could also be very

19:41

unpleasant to her son. Regarding

19:44

the knife in question though she was a

19:46

lot more vague and she

19:48

said she simply couldn't remember much of the detail.

19:52

She told the court that all she'd recalled the

19:54

incident was James coming through the door and

19:56

there being blood across the floor from a wound which she

19:58

said was a bad thing. self-inflicted.

20:02

She said she couldn't recall making the 909 call

20:05

but she had a slight memory of mopping up

20:07

blood. I still have

20:09

an image of unwinding the tissue paper and

20:12

putting it over the blood she said. The

20:15

first thing I heard was a really loud bang and

20:17

I saw him coming through the bottom of the door. He

20:21

was climbing through the panel and then I saw

20:23

blood. The next thing I remember

20:26

is being arrested for murder. Explaining

20:29

to the court how the knife had ended up in a

20:31

drain, she claimed she had not hidden it

20:33

there but get this, she

20:35

suggested that her son had perhaps done so.

20:39

In my heart I think he did hide it there but

20:41

I didn't want to get him into trouble, I

20:43

didn't see him do it. Again

20:45

something we see a lot on this

20:47

podcast, trying to implicate family

20:50

members to save your own skin, in

20:52

this case her 13 year old son,

20:55

Classy. She

20:57

then said, I don't think my

20:59

mind is letting me process what happened because it's

21:01

too traumatic. I

21:03

have different scenarios in my head and

21:06

don't know what's real and what's not anymore. When

21:09

quizzed over why she damaged James' car she

21:11

said, I was pissed off with James

21:13

and didn't want it in my driveway. I

21:16

know I shouldn't have done it but I did. I figured

21:19

if I wasn't nice he wouldn't come over again.

21:22

When the car was taken I felt a relief because

21:25

it was the last thing of his and

21:27

he wouldn't come round any longer. Lindsay

21:30

continued to paint a really poor picture of

21:32

James, further claiming he was

21:34

nasty to her when drunk and

21:37

that it was almost as if there were lots of

21:39

people in his body, different personalities

21:41

trying to get out. He

21:44

appeared, Lindsay said, to the tear

21:46

rate noticeably in the final two

21:48

weeks of his life and though

21:50

she admitted she was never aware of any

21:52

suicidal thoughts having crossed his mind. When

21:55

pushed on her own character, Lindsay

21:57

Conceded she could be snappy and temporarily.

22:00

Or mental. I've met you that

22:02

she wasn't proud of. The farage of anger,

22:04

few messages. She. Sends him on the day

22:06

that he died. Explaining why

22:08

she doesn't this see once again said she

22:10

was fitting a hat. Fish. He thought

22:12

he was looking for other women. At.

22:15

The end if I cross examination Lindsay

22:17

said. I do not believe I

22:19

stopped. James failed. I. Believe

22:21

he stabbed himself. The

22:24

jury retards consider their verdicts. And.

22:27

Following just shy of four hours of

22:29

deliberations, They found Lindsay Gabriel

22:31

guilty of the made of James

22:34

failed. In.

22:36

Sense the same the judge said what

22:38

many in court happily throughout. Describing

22:41

her events is plainly untrue.

22:44

Sooth. A set that Lindsay had by

22:46

some martin be the most aggressive the path.

22:49

And demonstrated especially. When.

22:51

Picking up and plunge in knife into James

22:53

is to. The

22:55

Johnson as it's further information which.

22:59

Could have confirmed to the jury they'd made the right

23:01

decision. By. Telling the court the

23:03

lindsay was on by alpha to assault

23:05

charges as it's hundred metre. The.

23:08

Judge else in the to stand before handing

23:10

her a life sentence. Which. He

23:12

must serve or at least fourteen years

23:15

before being eligible for parole. Doesn't.

23:17

Sound very long to meet as a year. And

23:20

even if ever least she was told

23:22

she remain on licence for the remainder

23:24

of her life. The

23:27

just said acknowledge that James Field have had

23:29

a demon spend the last two years he

23:31

tried. I wasn't Seats exceeding unsettling

23:33

them. Having reconnect through

23:35

his family he the hope of the price

23:38

of future. Something. That was

23:40

taken away. By the actions of

23:42

Lindsay Gabriel. Following.

23:44

The Trial: The lead detective welcome the

23:46

Fedex and praised by families we face

23:48

haven't been present in coal throughout the

23:51

trial. He. Acknowledged how

23:53

difficult it must have been for both. That

23:55

commended them. Have conducted themselves

23:57

with dignity, For. the duration of the

23:59

trial James's

24:01

family also commented following the verdict,

24:03

issuing the following very short statement.

24:07

We would like to thank the police for their continued

24:09

help and support throughout this investigation.

24:12

We would also like to thank the members of the public who

24:14

came to the aid of James and attempted to help him

24:16

at the scene. Although we

24:18

can't bring James back, we will

24:20

continually miss him every day. So

24:24

would you make of this story this week? Ok,

24:27

on the surface it's one of the more

24:29

straightforward cases I've covered on this podcast. But

24:33

of course that makes it no less important. What

24:36

would no doubt have struck you as it did me is

24:39

the most tragic aspect of this story, that

24:42

a man doing his best through recovery from

24:44

drug addiction and succeeding wasn't

24:47

able to realise the new beginnings which may

24:49

have come his way. Indeed

24:51

this very vulnerability which plagued

24:53

his life led him

24:56

being a victim and even in

24:58

his death the perpetrator appeared at

25:00

ease in using his struggles as

25:02

a form of alibi for her. We

25:05

are all fighting our own battles every day and

25:08

to see someone who is making such

25:10

an effort being killed in such a

25:13

brutal way outside on the road is

25:15

terrible to see. Thankfully

25:18

however the jury did not yield

25:20

to Lindsay Gabriel's fanciful suicide story

25:24

and the family of James Field were given some

25:26

sort of justice and

25:28

hopefully now he too finally has

25:30

peace. Thank

25:33

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