Driven to Death? - Cleared
The Trial
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Caroline and Nick have all the details from court as Chris Trybus was dramatically cleared of killing his wife. The jury took over 40 hours to deliberate, but they decided he did not rape or coercively control Tarryn Baird and he was not responsible for her suicide.
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Presenter: Caroline Cheetham and Nick Fagge
Producer: Chelsey Ranore
Editor: Chelsey Ranore
Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the trial UK, driven to death. I'm Caroline Cheatham. And I'm Nick Fage. |
| 0:12.1 | So in the last few minutes, in a landmark trial in an English court, a man has been cleared of being responsible for the death of his wife from years of abuse. He was also |
| 0:22.5 | cleared of raping his wife and of coercively controlling her. So Chris Tribus had denied all of the |
| 0:29.9 | charges of manslaughter, rape and coercive control. And today, in the last few minutes, really, |
| 0:34.9 | the jury in Winchester believed what he told them. |
| 0:39.2 | They believed that Taryn Baird took her life because she was seriously unwell. |
| 0:44.0 | Suffering, we were told, during this trial from PTSD and mental illness. |
| 0:48.5 | They also believed the so-called rape tape that we heard in court several times was not an attack but consensual sex. |
| 0:58.2 | And they did not believe that Chris Tribus domestically abused Taryn Baird, physically, mentally and sexually. |
| 1:06.5 | Today the jury decided that when Taryn Baird took her own life, and she wrote this suicide |
| 1:11.1 | note, she was suffering from extreme mental illness. |
| 1:14.5 | Her note was read during the trial to the jury by the prosecutor, that's Tom Little |
| 1:17.9 | Casey. |
| 1:19.1 | To my family, I am so sorry, but I just couldn't take it anymore. |
| 1:23.3 | I know you may not understand this, but I just can't explain the dark cloud that is over me. |
| 1:28.3 | Please don't let this break you, but no, I am now free. |
| 1:31.5 | Nothing any of you could have done could have changed this. |
| 1:34.3 | Please just know that. |
| 1:35.5 | I love you and please forgive me. |
| 1:38.3 | Today, Nick and I will go through the case in detail and we'll examine what this might mean going forward. |
| 1:45.2 | We'll also discuss what happened to Taryn Baird of the last few years of her life, |
| 1:49.4 | her cries for help, the secret pictures on her phone, and her final desperate phone calls. |
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