4.3 • 728 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | See London in a new light, with the streets glowing in neon. |
0:04.0 | A London full of people walking in the same direction, beating cancer one step at a time. |
0:09.0 | And yes, a London where people actually say hello as they walk past. |
0:13.0 | The 20th of September is Cancer Research UK's Shine Nightwalk, and it's when London really sparkles. |
0:19.0 | Step up and sign up today at shinewark.org. |
0:21.6 | Choose from the 10K, half marathon or full marathon walk |
0:24.6 | and get 30% off your entry. |
0:26.9 | Together we are beating cancer. |
0:29.0 | Teas and Cs apply. |
0:30.1 | We'd like to warn you before we begin |
0:31.8 | that this episode contains references to suicide |
0:34.3 | and a description of sexual abuse and rape. |
0:37.6 | Episode 4 of Unreliable Witness, The Witness, Who Went Home. |
0:44.4 | The trial of Eleanor Williams was drawing to a close, and the judge was keen to wrap things up. |
0:50.5 | But Christmas was coming. |
0:52.3 | Turkey lunches, gifts under the tree, and the New Year's fireworks would delay the jury's deliberations. When they did return in January, it took just over three hours to reach a guilty verdict. The jury found Eleanor Williams had perverted the course of justice by accusing innocent men of abusing her. |
1:13.6 | The lies had sparked hysteria about an alleged grooming gang. She had faked evidence to back up |
1:20.6 | her claims. But in those days just before Christmas, a young woman had appeared at the courthouse |
1:26.4 | in Preston to give evidence on behalf of the defence. |
1:30.1 | The small blonde woman in her early 20s, her face hidden under a hood, spent most of the day either in the canteen or outside in the rain vaping. |
1:40.7 | As journalists covering the case, we couldn't speak to her ahead of her taking the stand, |
1:45.5 | and in the end, after legal argument not in the presence of the jury, the young woman went home |
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