Last Seen Katoomba 02 | The Boyfriend
Unravel
ABC Australia
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🗓️ 12 February 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
We go inside the courtroom at Belinda Peisley's inquest to hear firsthand the arguments, phone taps and witness testimony. Jason*, Belinda's boyfriend at the time, says he met up with her on the night she disappeared. They had an argument at her house and he left. It's the last time he ever saw her. Jason is from a footy family in the Mountains and his father John* wasn't impressed his son was going out with someone from the so-called 'junkie' crowd.
Hear the inquest testimony from Jason and his father as they answer questions about Belinda's disappearance.
*We've changed their names for legal reasons.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Just a warning before we start, this podcast contains some strong language and themes. |
| 0:10.0 | Also, if you haven't heard episode one, head back and start there. |
| 0:14.3 | You want to this is an inquest into the suspected death of Belinda Peasley. |
| 0:24.0 | Blinda was last definitely seen at about 8.50 PM on 26 September 1998. |
| 0:31.0 | She was 19 years old. |
| 0:39.0 | This is a recording from the inquest into Belinda Peasley's disappearance and suspected death, held 14 years after she disappeared. |
| 0:42.0 | It's rare to get video and audio of an entire |
| 0:44.5 | inquest. The documentary filmmaker Helen Barrow who's working with us on this |
| 0:48.8 | podcast was granted access to the courtroom to record all three weeks of it. |
| 0:54.1 | There are threats, arguments, phone taps, |
| 0:57.0 | everything that played out behind the closed doors of that courtroom. |
| 1:00.5 | It's kind of like a window into Belinda's life in 1998, the world she lived in, the people |
| 1:05.9 | that surrounded her over those last few months of her life and the fears she felt. |
| 1:10.0 | Your Honor, there is some evidence that there was a code of silence in the Blue Mountains, |
| 1:18.6 | and in particular in Katoomba. |
| 1:20.3 | That silence was considered a virtue. We will at this inquest explore whether there is such a code of silence and whether the various people who have made statements to the police are in fact telling the truth or whether in fact they know something else they have not yet revealed. |
| 1:36.0 | I'm Gina McEwen and this is unravel. |
| 1:39.7 | To get an understanding of what might have happened to Belinda I'm piecing together evidence from |
| 1:44.0 | the last few months of her life with testimony from the six main persons of |
| 1:48.1 | interest named in Belinda's inquest. Episode by episode will look at each of these six people in this episode the first |
| 1:56.4 | person of interest her boyfriend what do you mean by I like it's very and hold on |
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