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Today in Focus

Can I tell you a secret? Episode five: a mother’s love

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Revisited: Journalist Sirin Kale meets Matthew Hardy’s mother to uncover more about his past – and what may have motivated him to cyberstalk his victims for so long. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:06.8

Just before we begin, this is a podcast series about

0:10.3

strutting and some people might find parts of it difficult to listen to.

0:18.1

In the last episode, Matthew's victims told me about the day they finally faced him in court.

0:25.2

At the moment he was handed a nine-year jail sentence, a sentence he plans to appeal.

0:32.0

But there's still someone we haven't heard from.

0:43.4

A house surrounded by electric gates and security cameras.

0:49.3

Inside, Donna's waiting for us.

0:56.0

Nervous, but friendly.

0:58.4

I was going to go to Matthew yesterday.

1:03.2

I said, maybe you were coming and normally phones make just a six-plot.

1:08.1

So I might get interrupted.

1:10.1

The first thing Matthew's mum does is make us a WT.

1:14.3

There's a small, yappy dog macing around the picture, knowing I'm chute-oy.

1:21.7

I hope that you haven't met anxious about meeting us.

1:25.0

I know it's quite stressful.

1:26.4

We're not bad people.

1:29.3

We're really not.

1:31.3

We've been through so much.

1:33.6

Life's unheld.

1:36.2

Press the pause button.

1:38.2

And that's it.

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