Driven to Death? - Do No Harm
The Trial
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Caroline and Nick have the medical evidence from Tarryn Baird’s GP who she saw or spoke to over 100 times in two years. The notes showed she reported repeated beatings, assaults with a rope and rape at the hands of her husband, Christopher Trybus. Time and time again she was urged to end the relationship, but she said she was terrified he would find her, and it was more dangerous to leave than to stay. He argues the allegations are lies, and during one month when he’d allegedly attacked her more than once, evidence proved he wasn’t even in the country.
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Presenter: Caroline Cheetham and Nick Fagge
Producer: Chelsey Ranore
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the trial UK, driven to death. I'm Caroline Cheatham. And I'm Nick Fage. Just a quick warning at the outset of this episode. We will be outlining evidence of suicide and allegations of domestic violence. Today on the podcast, |
| 0:23.1 | we'll hear that over a two-year period, Taryn Bairn Baird had contact with her GP over 100 times. |
| 0:30.7 | We hear the evidence from her doctor that initially Taryn complained of fainting and of unexplained |
| 0:36.1 | injuries, but after a few months, she confided |
| 0:38.8 | that her husband was beating her. She told her Christopher Tribus put his hands around her neck during |
| 0:44.1 | sex. He held her head under the water, dragged her on the floor, and he beat her with a metal pole. |
| 0:50.7 | She also said her husband told her, no one would believe her story because she was unstable. But it was also claimed that during one month when she said she'd been repeatedly beaten by him, he wasn't even in the country. He was away on a business trip. Welcome to episode three. Do No Harm. We'll be back in a second. So welcome back to the Friday episode of the podcast. |
| 1:33.6 | It's the end of the first week of this trial and actually the end of the first live witness in the case. |
| 1:39.4 | And what we're going to bring you today really is the evidence from Taryn Baird's GP, her doctor. She's called Tessa Jones, |
| 1:47.5 | and she gave her evidence from behind a screen. We're going to just sort of paint you a bit of a |
| 1:52.4 | picture of what was happening in court because obviously we can see everything that's going on |
| 1:56.9 | and you can't. And this bit's quite relevant, really. And we should say it's increasingly |
| 2:01.6 | common, really, that some witnesses just find the whole court process to be really challenging |
| 2:07.8 | and they find they can give their evidence in a better way, a more calm way, if they are behind |
| 2:14.7 | a screen. They just find it helps them. So Dr. Jones gave her evidence from |
| 2:19.5 | behind a screen. Now, we should say the judge and the jury could see Dr. Jones, but she was hidden |
| 2:26.4 | from the view of the defendant, Christopher Tribus, who of course is in the dock. And actually, |
| 2:30.4 | Nick, something we should say that we haven't made clear yet, is that Christopher |
| 2:34.4 | Tribus is not in prison, is he? |
| 2:37.6 | No, he's not. |
| 2:38.4 | He's on bail and he rise at the court promptly at about 9am every day with his wife, |
| 2:43.7 | who we know is called B, and he then sits in the dock of the court. |
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