Driven to Death? - “Reliving a Nightmare”

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🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Caroline and Nick have the emotional evidence from Tarryn Baird’s mum who said she’d been living a nightmare ever since her daughter died. Michelle Baird said Tarryn had started to withdraw from her family in the months before she took her life and she blamed her frequent bruises on falling over. Michelle Baird also said Chris Trybus told her Tarryn “couldn’t stop” drinking and taking prescription medication and she also told of what she witnessed whenever Chris worked from home.

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Presenter: Caroline Cheetham and Nick Fagge

Actors: Rhys Hanson and Hannah Whitehead

Producer: Chelsey Ranore

Editor: Chelsey Ranore

Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

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0:00.0	Welcome to the trial UK, driven to death.
0:09.6	I'm Caroline Cheaton.
0:10.8	And I'm Nick Fage.
0:12.2	A warning at the outset, this episode will outline evidence about suicide and allegations of domestic violence.
0:19.8	Today on the podcast, we're going to hear from the mother of Taryn Bird podcast we're going to hear from the mother of
0:23.8	Taryn Baird, who says she's been living a nightmare for eight years.
0:28.7	Michelle Baird also alleged that Chris Tribers told her his wife drank too much, took too many
0:34.2	prescription drugs and she couldn't stop. She also told the court she'd seen her
0:39.2	daughter with bruises on her face and her arms, but Taryn always claimed she'd either fallen over
0:45.3	or fainted. And she revealed what she witnessed whenever Chris Tribus worked from home. Today we've also
0:52.0	got the evidence from one of Taryn's best friends who said that it was
0:55.4	in 2017 when she started to open up about the abuse. She said she was suffering. This friend said
1:03.2	Taryn was drinking because it numbed the pain when Chris hurt her. Welcome to episode seven,
1:09.5	reliving a nightmare.
1:12.3	We'll be back in a podcast. We're now at the end of week three of this trial. About halfway through, we think the prosecution case and then, of course, the defense case will start. We have no idea at this point whether Christopher Tribus will give evidence himself.
1:47.5	That is entirely up to him. And we may not find out until literally the day he decides whether he wants to or not.
1:56.8	So, of course, we'll be here for the duration. Just a reminder, as ever, that Chris Tribus is on trial for manslaughter, rape and coercive control. And the allegation is that he abused his wife to such an extent that she felt her only way out was to take her own life. Now, he denies all of those charges. He says his wife was mentally unwell,
2:20.4	and far from abusing her, he cherished her. And so, as we said in our intro there, the last couple
2:27.9	of days has been emotional in court because we've heard not just from one of Taryn's best friends,
2:32.9	but also from Taryn's mum.
2:35.3	Now, we're going to bring you all of their evidence shortly, but we're just going to start,
2:39.1	actually, with some evidence from a doctor. This is Dr. Nicholas Kennedy. He is a forensic
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