Welcome to the trial UK, driven to death. I'm Caroline Cheatham and I'm Caroline Cheatham.

And I'm Nick Fage. A warning, this episode will outline evidence about suicide from the outset and allegations of domestic violence.

So today on the podcast, we've got the dramatic closing speeches

from the two barristers in the case as this trial comes to an end. The prosecution said

Chris Tribus was a wife-beater who has assassinated the character of Taryn Baird during the trial.

He asked why, oh why would she lie so often about what was happening to her?

And he questioned how Chris Tribus could say he wasn't aware his wife was covered in bruises

unless he was blind and clueless.

But the defence said Taran Baird's allegations were nothing but fairy dust.

She was accused of being a fantasist, an attention seeker,

an angry, troubled woman who hated her husband working away, a woman who self-harmed and then blamed

him. And the defence also claimed the entire trial was Kafkaesque and a gender-driven with a dogma that women who accuse men of violence do not lie.

Welcome to episode 15, Who to Believe.

We'll be back in a second. So welcome back to the podcast on Friday, April, the 10th that we are now approaching the very

end of this trial. All the evidence has been heard and for the last few days in court, the jury

have been listening to the two barristers in the case make their final arguments to the jury.

Now, Nick, we've said this before and I suppose you and I are a bit kind of

caught geeky when it comes to this, if that's a thing. But Tom Little, Casey, and Katie Thorne, Casey,

they are two of the country's most experienced barristers. So these closing speeches,

I suppose they were always going to be really dramatic moment in the court and they were

mind-blowing, weren't they? They really were. It's taken most of the week, really, for these

speeches to be delivered to the jury and it's the last opportunity for the barristers to make

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