Welcome to the trial UK, driven to death. I'm Caroline Cheatham. And I'm Nick Fage.

A warning from the outset this episode will outline evidence about suicide and allegations of domestic violence.

Today on the podcast, we have the clashes in court between Tarran Baird's mum and the

defence barrister for Chris Tribus.

Michelle Baird was challenged at a threat she claimed Chris Tribus made to his wife about

dissolving her body in an acid bath was nothing more than a joke.

Today, we also hear that Tin told a psychiatric nurse that her husband would never go to prison

for domestic abuse, but she felt like she was trapped in a prison.

We also now know that Taran was discharged from a mental health emergency service

eight days before she died by suicide. Plus today we've got some of the devastating

words Tarin was writing down. Welcome to episode eight, The Diary. We'll be back in a

second. The So welcome back to the podcast. We're at the start of week four of this trial now, and we're

pretty much in the middle, really, of the prosecution case. Quick reminder as ever, Chris Tribus is on trial for manslaughter, rape and coercive control.

And the central and very rare allegation is that he was responsible for his wife's death,

her suicide, because of the abuse he subjected her to in the years before she died.

Now, he denies all of those allegations. And in the episode that

Nick and I brought you on Friday, we brought you the start of the evidence from Taryn's mum.

Now, she's called Michelle Baird. She was emotional at times. She had to have a number of breaks.

She sobbed quite a lot in the witness box, as she told the jury about Taryn's childhood and also about her mental health struggles over many years. And of course, we know they originated, I suppose, because of those incidents that Taryn witnessed when she was living in South Africa.

Yes, what she witnessed were two violent carjackings, one where a woman was shot in the

stomach and one where her dad was threatened at gunpoint on the family driveway, and the

violent she witnessed in South Africa really led her to move to the UK with Chris Drivers

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