I received your letter dated 12 December and I thank you for reaching out to me.

I understand that you're interested in hearing my story but with all due respect that's where you and I disagree.

I do not feel in any way that this is my story.

I don't think I'm entitled to be heard in any manner.

My actions devastated a family and shocked the community.

There is a possibility I may be called to testify and I don't want to jeopardise this case in any way.

Welcome to Extraordinary Stories podcast. Gather around KERRY Hello, I'm going? Are you well? Are you good? I am. I'm well, but I'm on day four of being snowed into my house. Cabin fever is setting in. I can assure you. It is day four and the snow here is just ridiculous. So here I am. Snowed in. Okay, so, and I know that all across the UK and other parts of Europe,

there are lots of people in the same position. Okay, shout outs. Victoria Wilson, thank you for your support. Thank you so much.

Tracy Packer in Minnesota.

Hello, Tracy. I hear you're a fan of the podcast and that you tell people about it.

Thanks for listening. I really hope that you're well.

And Ros Corrigan, hello.

How are you?

Thanks for the response to the new midweek episode, The Short Stories.

This first week, the Christian the Lion story, seemed to really touch people.

I put the video, the video on the Facebook group of the reunion between Christian the Lion

and his owners and it made quite a lot of people cry. So if you haven't seen it, you can

go and find it on YouTube, but you can go and find it on the group. Okay, I'll not ramble

on for too long. Let's get to the story, but before we do, I'm going to say this.

This story has so many twists and turns.

It's almost as if if I told you this story was fictional, you would utterly believe it.

But it's not sadly fictional. It points it's really, really dark. It's really

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