Gareth | Lucky Boy Ep1

Elon's Spies | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Gareth spent years believing he was a lucky boy. He was the 14-year-old who got the attention of the attractive young science teacher. Now, decades later, he wants the truth to come out about the damage it’s caused him. But his story is not straight forward.

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0:00.0	Tautus
0:05.0	Just a heads up before we start, this episode contains strong language and references to sexual abuse.
0:18.8	Can you just talk for a set?
0:20.4	Hello, how are you? My name is Monty and I like golf.
0:26.9	I don't know why he said he's Monty. This is actually Mark. He's one of my oldest mates and he doesn't like golf.
0:34.4	Again?
0:34.7	One two, one two, one two. Testing, one two.
0:39.4	He's always been the funny one in our group of friends.
0:42.9	It was the same when we were kids growing up in the 80s.
0:45.9	It's a bit embarrassing now, but back then, me and Mark were goths.
0:50.7	No, I mean, it wasn't, you know, like we were, you know, it was the mid-80s, late 80s.
0:54.6	We ever had spots, greasy hair, you know, dodgy school shoes, you know, we just...
1:01.3	You had a crimped fringe.
1:02.8	I had a crimped fringe, yeah, but I was quite cool.
1:05.2	You were quite cool. Do you know what I mean?
1:06.3	Like, our lot were sort of quite cool, but then...
1:10.0	At least we thought we were.
1:12.7	For our lot, it was all about going to gigs.
1:15.5	Susie and the Banshees, The Cure, and some pretty dire stuff too, like Fields of the Nephlin.
1:21.5	That still makes me cringe.
1:23.8	It was easy for teenagers back then, because tickets were affordable, only around a tenor,
1:28.7	and in venues that seemed so edgy and happening, like the town and country club and the Camden
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