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The Storyteller: Naked Villainy

The Storyteller: Murder Most Foul Bonus 7 - Part 2

The Storyteller: Naked Villainy

Isla Traquair

True Crime

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Pamela Gourlay gave evidence over two days. In the second part of this week's bonus content, find out exactly what the young chef said in court as The Storyteller Isla Traquair goes through and reads excerpts of the transcript. An actor is used for reading the parts of Edward Targowski QC and former Advocate Depute Neil Brailsford who is now a judge, Lord Brailsford.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back superfans if you're tuning into this bonus

0:08.7

episode following on from episode 7 the trial and as promised I have a lot more from

0:18.4

Pamela Gurley giving evidence there are 150 pages as I mentioned before I'm not going to read it all

0:26.3

out but I think there are some things in there that are important to cover.

0:29.9

You might be interested to know for example that she'd only moved into that apartment in August.

0:36.0

The merger of course took place at the beginning of October and she'd only been in her new job for a few months so we think she actually moved there so that

0:43.6

she could walk to work. She got paid £4.25 per hour as a chef. She got paid

0:50.4

weekly and she normally got paid on a Friday and she had in fact taken out a

0:56.1

chunk of her pay at 2 in the morning on the Friday so basically two hours after the pay went

1:01.6

into her account she'd withdrawn some.

1:04.4

And she says to police that she probably had about £150 left the following day,

1:10.5

but she couldn't find it in her handbag so if that's to be believed she had that money

1:15.4

when she couldn't pay for the taxi and she had that money when they were begging for

1:19.7

money for Chris's bus fare and she had that money when she killed Melanie

1:27.8

We also discovered that she was in

1:35.0

over drawn on her bank account by a thousand pounds and she was also in rent of years of a thousand pounds and apparently she was planning and moving out and we know that also from Claire who had offered her her spare room.

1:44.0

She did supplement her income by selling cannabis so she would buy a certain amount, smoke

1:50.3

so much for herself and then she would sell the rest of it and she said she could make about

1:54.3

300 pounds profit from doing that. So the night before she was round it clear she went there

1:59.7

about six o'clock apparently there was about five people there including her partner or

2:03.9

casual boyfriend Chris Taylor she says that she smoked some cannabis and took to

2:08.6

mazepan around about 10 o'clock that evening she went out to the Fish and Chip shop and got some

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