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I'm Bethyn and it's just me this week. It is just me this week. I don't feel like we've had this joke for a while because actually he's been quite sensible recently but

Mark's on holiday um he is on holiday this week and we haven't really done that joke for a while

we haven't taken the mick out of him for being on too many holidays so he hasn't really been on one

for a while so I feel like I should be nice to him and allow him to enjoy this one but I'm also

going to tease him a little bit about missing this

and maybe we can just continue on with the mark has a lot of holidays.

So welcome to the show.

What transforms a mother, traditionally the nurturer and the protector,

into a perpetrator of heinous acts against her own child.

When 15-year-old Timothy Ferguson died of malnourishment and hypothermia in the basement of his home,

police uncovered the torture that he had endured at the hands of his own sadistic mother

and her accomplice, his brother.

This week's case has been written for us by one of our listeners, Haley Fisher.

She explained that she was so heartbroken when she heard about this case,

and she followed the trial keenly. Working in social care made it all the more shocking and

sad for her. And Haley wanted to ensure that Timothy is never forgotten,

and so she wrote this entire episode for us to share with you.

As I said this week, it's just me, there's no Mark,

and weirdly, I do think that that will actually make it easier for me to present this case to you.

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