Trial Update: Driven To Death? - The Defence Case - “false allegations”
The Trial
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this special update episode Caroline and Nick have an insight into what Christopher Trybus will say in his defence in this trial. He claims his wife made up allegations of domestic violence and coercive control, and far from abusing Tarryn Baird he cherished her deeply. He will also say her death was not a deliberate suicide attempt, but a cry for help which went wrong.
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| 0:00.0 | The Crime Desk, Arresting Podcasts. |
| 0:05.1 | The Trial Update. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome to The Trial Update. I'm Caroline Cheatham. |
| 0:23.6 | And I'm Nick Fage. We're going to start today with a few words of what we've just been hearing at Winchester Crown Court. Christopher Tribus |
| 0:30.3 | was never abusive to his wife. He didn't beat her. He didn't rape her. He did not coercively |
| 0:37.4 | control her. And he did not cause her |
| 0:40.2 | death. On the contrary, he loved her and cherished her deeply. So those are the words of Katie |
| 0:48.5 | Thorn, Casey. She's the defence barrister for Christopher Tribus, and we've heard from her in court in the last couple of hours. |
| 0:56.6 | Now, we've used an actor as ever to voice up her words because we can't have microphones and cameras in court. |
| 1:03.4 | But everything we bring you in terms of quotes are absolutely verbating what's been said in court. |
| 1:09.6 | But just to explain a little bit of the context of |
| 1:12.0 | this and why Nick and I are back here today, of course, in yesterday's episode of the podcast, |
| 1:17.7 | we said we'd be back on Friday with a next episode on this case, which is right. We will |
| 1:23.7 | be dropping that episode in the usual way at about lunchtime on Friday. |
| 1:28.5 | But what we thought was that this was quite significant what was happening this morning in court. |
| 1:33.1 | So we wanted to bring you one of our update episodes. |
| 1:37.1 | And that's because we've just heard really what Christopher Tribus is going to say in his defence of these allegations. |
| 1:46.0 | Yesterday, of course, we heard the opening of the prosecution case, which in a nutshell is that |
| 1:51.3 | Taryn Baird killed herself in November 2017 after suffering from extensive domestic abuse and |
| 1:58.3 | sexual violence. So here's the allegation at the centre of this trial. |
| 2:02.4 | Is Christopher Tribus responsible for the death-be's wife |
| 2:05.9 | because effectively she felt she had no other way to escape the relationship? |
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