Disaster Trolls: 6. The Visitor
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2.8 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The visitor to Lisa’s boatyard appeared to be an ordinary customer. But, she was horrified to later discover the real reason he had turned up at her workplace.
The man who had pretended to be interested in buying a speedboat or a jet ski, was actually the conspiracy show host Richard D Hall.
Lisa was seriously injured in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing - a terror attack which Hall falsely claims was faked by sinister forces in the secret services. Some time after Hall’s visit, Lisa was distressed to learn that Hall had visited her workplace, posing as a customer, with the aim of secretly recording her to discover whether she’s lying about her injuries - and that he had talked about it online.
As Lisa ponders how Hall can be held to account, another Manchester survivor reveals his plans to take legal action against him. Martin Hibbert - who we heard from in an earlier episode - is spurred on by the US court victory of the relatives of the Sandy Hook shooting victims who have successfully sued Infowars host Alex Jones in Texas.
Across this series - and in this episode - there are graphic descriptions of violence. This episode contains audio from Richard D Hall’s website.
Presenter: Marianna Spring Producer: Ant Adeane Editor: Ed Main
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | A group of men ran in with machetes. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Livy Haydock, and from BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Live, |
| 0:08.6 | this is gangster, the story of Georgie Pye. |
| 0:13.2 | The scene of the killing near a Chinese bookshop is being flooded with detectives. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the world of the triads. |
| 0:19.6 | If the triads are coming out of you, you're done. |
| 0:21.5 | Where loyalty is sworn in blood. |
| 0:24.8 | Gangster, the story of Georgie Pye. |
| 0:27.6 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.5 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:34.6 | Music, radio podcasts. Oh, wow. Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:42.7 | Whoa, it's windy. |
| 0:49.2 | I'm in a boatyard, racing myself against the elements, |
| 0:51.2 | with a woman named Lisa Bridget. |
| 0:54.0 | So we're based on the Clean Peninsula, right down the far coast of North Wales. |
| 0:58.0 | The yard is part of a powerboat centre that Lisa works at. |
| 1:02.0 | There's chaparrales, there's bay liners, fishing boats, day boats. |
| 1:07.0 | Lisa is a survivor of the Manchester Arena terror attack. |
| 1:11.3 | She sustained serious injuries. |
| 1:14.8 | I'm speaking to her because two years after the attack, in September 2019, |
| 1:19.7 | a man paid a visit to Lisa's place of work. |
| 1:22.6 | The gentleman that came to visit parked approximately here |
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