10: The Letters

The Witness: In His Own Words

Jane Gogan

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Joey writes to the parole board, and receives a letter from an old friend.

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The Witness is produced by Ian Maleney and executive produced by Nicola Tallant and Jane Gogan. The sound editor is Brendan Jenkinson and the music is composed by Niamh Corcoran. Yellow Path Productions Ltd.

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0:00.0	Hello, can you hear me now?
0:03.0	Yeah, yeah. Hello, can you hear me now?
0:13.0	Yeah, yeah, okay.
0:14.0	Uh, how are you getting on?
0:17.0	How are things? Yeah, yeah, no, I'm fine, yeah, yeah, I'm good, yeah.
0:21.0	Yeah, they just torn up and gave me a piece of paper, another piece of paper to say that was it,
0:27.0	act of threatening my life like them. I just don't know what to say anymore at this stage. I'm just numb to it.
0:34.3	Yeah, I'm just numb to it. It's just kind of, it just brings down out of stress because
0:40.3	I'm trying to live my life every day and when they're torn up and give me the GIM,
0:44.8	they're just bringing nut and but anxiety on top of me.
0:48.0	It's just the little privileges that I have, I feel like every time they give me one of the
0:52.0	informed and I don't have
0:53.7	that many of them quickly I feel like they're taking away from me and it's sadly because
0:59.3	every time I feel like I'm moving on, so come up. And now, Penny is just relentlessly.
1:05.4	He's absolutely relentless.
1:08.0	He just won't stop it.
1:09.4	He's desperate to get out that prison. personally.
1:17.0	The witness, in his own words, in his own words, episode 10, the letters. So I guess the first question really would be,
1:30.0	where is Brian Kenny right now?
1:33.0	So Kenny is in a place called Locking House Prison.
1:37.0	He was moved there in March of 2020 after he had a third attempt at parole
1:42.0	which failed to get on full release, but it did get him into this low security prison.
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