Driven to Death? - The Best Friend

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🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Caroline and Nick have the words of Tarryn’s best friend. Carina Silva told the jury in Winchester Tarryn became a “hollow shell” after suffering abuse at the hands of her husband. She said Tarryn started drinking herself to sleep after she claimed Chris Trybus raped her. But Carina Silva was accused of lying - of making up some of her evidence. And she was challenged on why, if she was so concerned about Tarryn, she hadn’t gone to the police sooner.

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Presenter: Caroline Cheetham and Nick Fagge

Actors: Katy, Tippi Willard and Lucy Ryan

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.
0:09.0	I'm Caroline Cheatham and I'm Nick Fage.
0:12.0	A warning at the outset this episode will outline evidence about suicide and allegations of domestic violence.
0:19.0	Today on the podcast we've got the evidence from Taryn
0:22.4	Baird's best friend who said she knew Taryn was being beaten by her husband.
0:28.4	Karina Silver said Taryn had become a hollow shell after being abused and raped by Chris Tribers.
0:34.9	She said she begged Taryn to leave, but every time she backtracked.
0:39.7	And she denied lying of using what she'd read in some news reports about the case to make up our evidence.
0:46.6	Welcome to episode nine, The Best Friend.
0:49.9	We'll be back in a second.
1:16.9	Thank you. We'll be back in a second. Okay, so welcome back to the end of week four of this trial at Winchester Crown Court.
1:21.5	We're coming really towards the end of the prosecution case now against Christopher Tribus.
1:27.2	The usual reminder here, he is charged with manslaughter, rape and coercive control.
1:32.7	The allegation that he denies is it was his abusive treatment of his wife over an extended period of time that caused her to take her life.
1:37.7	Now, as we said at the top of the podcast, the last couple of days really has been about one
1:43.7	witness. And this is an important
1:45.5	witness. She is called Karina Silver. Nick, tell us about Karina Silver. Karina Silver was Tarin's
1:52.3	best friend and like Tarin, Karina is from South Africa. They met when they were teenagers.
1:57.2	They went to the same school in Johannesburg. They played sport together. They both loved hockey.
2:02.0	Her nickname for Taryn was Tarr.
2:04.0	And a couple of years after Taryn moved permanently to the UK in 2007, Karina followed her and settled in London.
2:10.7	That meant, as well as speaking for hours on the phone and texting each other, they met up a lot too, basically because they lived a train ride from each other.
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