Episode 78: The Crimes of Simon Mellors

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Naomi Channell

Society & Culture, News, Documentary, True Crime

4.8 • 725 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Janet Scott had separated from her husband and was looking for love. She met Simon Mellors in a pub in Nottingham and became smitten. But Simon had a dark past that he kept secret in the beginning of their relationship. When Janet found out, she decided to stick by him, because his probation officer said he didn't think she was at risk.

But he was wrong. So very wrong.

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0:00.0	Warning, this is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences.
0:05.5	Please use discretion.
0:08.1	I have several friends who are currently dating, both men and women.
0:13.0	And when we chat over drinks or when we're catching up, I've noticed a common theme.
0:18.9	Their willingness, yet fear, to trust the person that they're dating.
0:24.6	It's hard to trust someone we don't know. Trust is built and earns over time. Recently, a friend
0:31.6	of mine found out that the person she was dating had a violent past. And it reminded me of today's case. Except the person she was dating had a violent past. And it reminded me of today's case.
0:41.0	Except the person at the centre of today's case, she was dating a convicted murderer. She just
0:48.2	didn't know it when she met him. I'm Naomi Channel and this is real.
1:48.6	Music I'm Naomi Channel be able to be. In April 2017, Janet Scott went to her local pub. It was the Coaching Horses in Nottingham, England. On that day, she got talking to a man called Simon Miller's. Both of them were single,
1:54.8	both of them were in their 50s, and Janet was also a loving mother to six children.
2:04.0	Janet and Simon hit it off, and a month later, they made their relationship official. Janet has been described as a determined and strong woman who had a big heart and put others before herself.
2:12.9	She worked at a local supermarket and all who loved her just wanted her to be happy. She was a striking
2:20.7	woman with lovely eyes and a kind smile. Simon told Janet that he was a successful businessman.
2:30.1	He told her he had two villas in Spain and Janet's family were happy that she would have someone to help provide stability for her and her family.
2:40.4	Simon was a timid and quiet man, and soon Janet allowed him to move into her family home.
2:47.3	But after he moved in, he started to become controlling.
2:52.2	He would do things, little things, like move things in the kitchen around.
2:59.0	He changed the cupboard where the plates were.
3:02.3	He hung the teetails in a different place and changed where the crisps were kept.
3:08.5	Janet's son Josh said he thought that the money he had made
3:12.3	had made him become a bit eccentric,
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