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When a murder is committed,
it's always a race against time

to find the truth, to separate fact
from fiction, to catch the killer,

and to make sure
that justice is served.

But what happens when the truth
vanishes with the victim?

I'm Dr Richard Shepherd,
and I've spent

my entire career
as a forensic pathologist,

performing nearly 23,000 autopsies.

I've learned that
the dead don't hide the truth.

And they never lie.

Through me, you'll be hearing
directly from the victim.

With the aid of a
state-of-the-art laboratory

using ground-breaking technology,

I'll be investigating a series
of intriguing crimes

where, from the victims' bodies,
I'll reveal to you

the truth behind these murders.

(camera shutter snapping)

On the day before
Valentine's Day, 2011,

West Yorkshire Police searched
a house in the village of Holmfirth.

It was the home of missing
mother-of-two Marie Stewart.

And what they found
was truly shocking.

The sleepy Yorkshire town
of Holmfirth

was home to 30-year-old Marie,
who lived in a quiet cul-de-sac.

But police had been tipped off

that she hadn't been seen
for some time.

To start with,
this is a welfare check.

She's been missing
nearly two months.

No-one seems to know where she is.

Last seen early December,

and we're now in February
the 13th.

(Richard Shepherd) In December,
Marie had unexpectedly

told people she needed time alone

and was going to the Canaries
for a break.

Marie has had two babies
in a very short period of time.

One's one year old,
and one's three year old.

And she's keeping home.

She's very, very busy.

Her work-life balance
was difficult.

Marie was possibly suffering
from postnatal depression.

(David Collins) The family started
to receive text messages

on Facebook, telling the family
that she'd gone off abroad

and was very happy,
having fun in the sun.

(Richard)
But something seemed amiss.

(David) Marie's sister had
found her passport in the address.

So if she'd gone abroad, how could
she do that without her passport?

(Clive Driscoll) Some of the
messages, you know, "Go away.

I'm enjoying myself."

That was the catalyst for people

to start thinking
this is not right.

Where is this lady?

(Richard) When Marie failed
to make contact at Christmas

or on her son's
first birthday in January,

the family raised their concerns
with the police.

Marie loved her children,
so it would have been

very out of character for her

to have missed her child's
first birthday.

Such a family-loving mother.

Why would she not be around at
Christmas to be with her children?

Why had she not been
in contact with them at all?

(Clive) There's something
really not right here.

That was what prompted
the welfare check.

The police were genuinely going

because they had a real concern
about her welfare,

not just a,
"So how are you doing?"

You know, it was a real concern
about her welfare.

I think they
probably had suspicions

that maybe this wasn't your usual

kind of maybe missing person case.

(David) The neighbours
had been reporting

some smells coming
from the address.

This would probably have led them
straight to the garage area.

When the police went round there
and they went into the garage,

they found a body in a bag.

(David)
A body was found.

It was in a Virgin Atlantic
flight bag

with a carpet
tucked over the top of it.

And now we have
a murder investigation.

Police would have then withdrawn,
cordons would be put into place

front and rear of the house.

This is now a major crime scene.

(Richard) Forensic teams
rushed to the home.

(David) All we know at this point
is, we've got a body.

We don't know whose body it is.

But obviously, the family
needs to be out of the house,

and an examination can then begin.

So we do an initial crime scene
assessment of the house.

Just... but bearing in mind,

this is seven,
eight weeks down the line,

just to see
what looks out of place.

Are there any signs
of any clean-up of blood,

anything along those lines?

(Clive) It is the
painstaking examination

to say what happened here.

You would be looking at the scene.

You know, what is the evidence in
the top floor, middle floor,

bottom floor, the garage?

It's the bit which
is the hardest part,

which is the really
methodical going

through every part of that house.

What's it telling you?
What is this scene telling me?

(Richard) Both house and the garage
appeared clean, tidy, and normal.

But experts were looking
for potential clues

invisible to the naked eye.

People think that
they can cover up a crime scene,

but it's very, very difficult.

The next stage
to deal with the garage area

and removal of the body
is a record photography

of the garage area.

We don't know if this is
the attack site,

deposition site,
or what's gone on.

The carpet over the bag
would be exhibited,

and then we'd have
to deal with the bag

before moving it to the mortuary.

So probably do some contact swabs
around the handles for DNA.

We need to identify
as soon as we can

who that person is and, obviously,
what the cause of death is.

(Richard) Though the body
was badly decomposed,

dental records confirmed
it was that

of missing mum of two
Marie Stewart.

One of the main tasks
of the pathologist

is to determine the time of death.

And that gets
increasingly difficult

the longer a body
lies undiscovered.

Marie's body showed
advanced decomposition.

And the rate a body decomposes
is influenced by many factors,

including temperature,
humidity, insects.

When someone dies,
each of our cells

goes into self-destruct mode.

They're full of enzymes
that destroy proteins

and break down the structures
of the body

from the inside out.

Determining the exact time
of death is almost impossible,

but it is always possible
to give a window

for the likely time of death.

And in Marie's case,
it was possible to say

that she had been dead
for about two months.

Crucially for the investigation,

this matched the timeframe
for Marie going missing

and her body being found
in the garage.

The race was now on
to work out Marie's movements

leading up to her death,

so her life
was put under the microscope.

(David) Marie was
an incredibly kind woman,

loved her children.

Lots of friends.
Very popular, very friendly lady.

Great mother.

Just generally a very nice person.

She'd worked with children
with special needs,

worked in a care home
with children,

and then became
a teaching assistant

where she was very valued,
very good,

and the children really loved her.

(Clive) And her life seemed
to be a giving...

her giving back.

She was a lovely girl.

She had all her future
ahead of her,

and things were looking very good.

(Richard) Marie lived
with her 28-year-old fiance,

Andrew Lindo, and their two kids.

Andrew Lindo was
born in Newcastle.

He had a musical background,
came from a good background.

Father was a property developer.

He was a music teacher.

He appeared to be a family man.

He was in a band.

He was a very bright fella,
very popular with friends.

(Richard) Andrew and Marie
met at Huddersfield University,

where they became friends.

He was studying music.

She was doing health care,
childcare.

But it appears that
she already was in a...

a fairly steady relationship and
went on to marry the gentleman.

(Richard) Marie's husband
and Andrew Lindo

were close friends.

Despite this, Lindo pursued Marie
romantically after graduating.

She turned him down,
but Lindo remained close mates

with the married couple.

They referred to him
as a womaniser in university.

Lindo was very friendly
with Marie's husband.

There was jealousy involved there.

He would perhaps have been
jealous of the husband

and wanted what he had.

And he set out to get it.

(Richard)
As their friendship deepened,

Marie opened up to Andrew
about her marriage frustrations

and unspoken desires.

He offered a shoulder to cry on.

She said, "Oh, he made me
feel wonderful,

and he made me feel like I was
the only person in the world."

(Richard) It led to a passionate
moment between them,

which left her marriage
hanging by a thread.

And Andrew's pursuit
of Marie intensified.

(Jane Carter Woodrow) Very soon,
the two became involved.

He'd kind of worked
his charm on Marie,

and she was very taken with him,

completely falling in love
with him.

And when he suggested
them moving in together,

she left her husband, to the shock
of all family and friends

because she was a very reliable,
very honest,

very kind, young person.

She set up home with Lindo
and moved away.

(Richard) In 2007,
after moving in with Lindo,

Marie divorced her husband.

It seemed to be very quick and
very intense and very passionate.

And she appeared to make
almost an instant decision

to end the one relationship
and move everything in with Lindo.

Together, they began a family.

And within a few years,
they had two babies.

(David) In 2010,
they moved into an address

in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.

They seemed to live
a perfect life.

Marie and Lindo seemed
totally happy and in love.

She wore his engagement ring.

And Lindo even went as far
as asking her father

for permission to marry her.

And why wouldn't he give it?

(Richard)
But by the time they moved house,

another side to the seemingly
happy couple was emerging.

Marie started becoming suspicious

of some of the things
that Lindo was saying.

He'd been caught out cheating.

Quite correctly, Marie was actually
asking difficult questions.

(Richard) In Holmfirth,
West Yorkshire,

police had uncovered
the badly decomposed body

of missing 30-year-old
Marie Stewart

at the home she shared
with her fiance,

Andrew Lindo,
and their two children.

Police forensics confirmed Marie's
body had been kept in a flight bag

under a carpet in her garage
before she was found.

(David) This will now lead
to house-to-house inquiries

being made with the neighbours,

see when they last saw Marie,

had they seen anything else
going on.

CCTV inquiries, Ring doorbells.

They'd be looking at just to see

comings and goings
there might have been.

(Jane Monckton Smith) The first
suspect when a woman is killed,

especially in her own home,
is going to be

the partner or the ex-partner
because, statistically,

they are more likely to have
done it than anybody else,

probably in 80% of cases.

This will now lead
to Lindo being arrested

and questioned as to his possible
involvement in this murder.

(Jane Smith)
But police in that kind of inquiry

will look at all
reasonable lines of inquiry.

They will look at other
potential suspects as well.

So it's not just about,
was it him,

but he would have been
the number one suspect

until they could eliminate him.

(Richard) The race was on
to find Marie's killer.

So police first needed to establish
what exactly had happened to her.

And in the pathology lab, her body
started to provide answers.

There was extensive bruising
around Marie's head,

evidence of some
blunt force trauma.

But had she fallen
and hit her head,

or was she hit with something?

Now, the bruising extended
to the deep tissues

and revealed a number
of separate, heavy blows.

You wouldn't get injuries
like this from a simple fall.

And this proves she was attacked.

The pattern of injuries
on Marie's body

revealed that she'd been struck
repeatedly by a complex object.

Injuries caused by a stick will
produce parallel, linear bruises.

Objects like the head of a hammer
produce a circular bruise.

But patterned bruises shaped
like a T or a right angle

indicate a more complex object
that has different parts

that have been joined together.

A fingertip and forensic search
of the family home

was already underway.

(David) At the back of the premises,
there was a chair,

a child's chair,
Winnie the Pooh chair found.

They'd all be submitted -
fingerprints,

DNA, blood, hairs, fibres.

(Richard) The chair looked clean
to the naked eye,

but forensic analysis
found otherwise.

On the leg of the chair,
there had been blood.

The pattern of bruising
on Marie's body

showed that she had been
repeatedly hit by a small chair,

one that had belonged
to her daughter.

But the attack with the chair
hadn't killed her.

It was one part
of a sustained attack.

She'd had her throat cut,

she had blunt force trauma
injuries,

and she'd been stabbed.

She must have been so frightened.
It's unbelievable.

(Richard) One by one,
suspects were eliminated.

Marie's ex-husband had an alibi.

Inquiries with friends,
family, and neighbours,

along with CCTV analysis,
ruled out an intruder or stalker.

The only consistent person going
in and out of the family home

around the time of the murder

was Andrew Lindo
and an unknown woman.

(David) Obviously,
Lindo is a person of interest,

lives at the address.

Their phones would have been seized

and downloaded and searched,
along with laptops

and any other electronic devices
they owned.

(Richard) And police
made a shocking discovery

on Lindo's devices.

It was found out Lindo was
having a number of affairs

with a number of women.

He had two going on
at the same time

at the school
that he was teaching at.

(Jane Smith) Multiple
relationships, multiple women,

and he managed to keep,
for the best part,

these women from knowing
about each other.

(Richard)
These affairs had started

when Marie was pregnant
with her second child in 2009.

And at the time,
she was blissfully unaware.

Lindo is very much
a high-risk taker.

And he's gambling
with these women.

He's still able to continue
living this lie

and doing exactly
what he wants to do,

which is to have all these women
pandering to this massive ego.

While Marie was away going to
visit her parents and her friends,

he would bring some
of these women back

that he was
having relationships with.

But he would obliterate
every sight or sound

of Marie from that house

so that when they came around,

they would think it was
the bachelor pad.

He was clearing out the premises
as though no-one else lived there,

and he was on his own,
giving a sob story

about being a single parent.

His wife had gone off
with somebody else.

So having picked up
different lovers,

he didn't ever give them
his address,

but he would take them
to the house

and simply drive around
very long routes

to completely disorientate them

so that they wouldn't know
where he lived.

They would arrive there
presumably not knowing

where they were
and not find their way back,

which gave him sort of
carte blanche to do what he wanted

while Marie was away,
knowing that they wouldn't

come round when she was back.

He was a fantasist and a liar.

He was actually...

he was living,
I say, a double life.

He was probably leading a treble
and a, you know, quattro life.

(Richard)
Months before Marie's murder,

Lindo, the seemingly
respectable schoolteacher,

even had an illegal relationship
with a 15-year-old pupil.

That's reckless. That is reckless.

And it's ego-driven.

He was, you know,
probably trying to make her think

that he was some kind
of rock star musician.

And she was just a young girl.

This is very much indicative
of a narcissist.

Everything is about him.

Me, me, me.
See me. Attention.

Wanting to be
the centre of attention.

(Richard) But it was
one other illicit romance

in particular that caught
the police's attention.

Lindo had met his next lover
in a shop

when he'd gone to cash
a work's check.

And soon they were chatting.

He said he was a single father.

He was giving her such a story
about the children

and how awful
his previous girlfriend had been.

(Clive) He was a bachelor
doing his best with two children.

And it's a hook line,
almost, innit,

to get people to feel sorry
for you.

(Richard)
Under police questioning,

the woman revealed
she was suspicious

that Lindo hadn't
actually left Marie

and wouldn't be convinced until
she spent a night in the house.

Lindo took the children
and went to pick up a woman

that he was having an affair,
a relationship with,

and brought her back to the house.

(Clive)
He was reinventing life.

And he was starting up
with this new female.

He was almost grooming
his children to have

this new female in their life.

(Jane Woodrow)
When his new girlfriend was there

at Christmas Day,
firstly, he said,

"This is the best Christmas ever."

And then when she commented
on the nice Christmas tree

with the decorations
and the little girl said,

"Oh, Mummy helped me with that,"

Lindo jumped in and said,
"Don't be silly.

I helped you do that."

I... what must have that
felt like for that little girl?

But clearly, he has no care
for anybody else's feelings,

even his own children.

It shows the kind of mindset
of this man,

that he's prepared to lie
in front of his children

and play with their mind, really.

Lindo carried on inviting
Marie's father and sister over

for Christmas dinner, acting as if
nothing untoward had occurred.

(Richard) Lindo had told the family
Marie had left him for another man.

But when they phoned her
over Christmas, she never answered.

She only ever sent texts
and did so for the next two months.

(David) Why has she not
been in contact with them at all?

The family were
becoming more and more suspicious

about what had gone on.

Also, Lindo claims to be the only
person still speaking to her.

And if she'd gone off, why would
she not speak to her family?

Why speak to him?

So things weren't
adding up whatsoever.

(Richard)
Police analysed local phone masts

and mobile phone activity around
the time of Marie's disappearance.

(David) We learnt through
phone work that both phones

had actually been more or less
at the same address

at the same time, rather than
her phone being abroad.

It was determined, obviously, that
Lindo was sending these messages

on Marie's phone
from the home address,

not coming from abroad whatsoever.

(Clive) He was
making a trail of deceit

with text messages
and Facebook page.

He fundamentally
made some errors there

because people know people,
don't they?

Parents know their daughters.
Friends know their friends.

(David) He was posting messages
on Facebook,

acting as Marie
and sending texts to the family,

saying that she was having fun.

But he was using a language
that Marie wouldn't use.

He's supremely confident that
he's not going to get caught.

(Richard) The only people
at the house

on the suspected night
of the murder

were Lindo and his new girlfriend.

But forensic evidence eliminated
her from the investigation.

And during questioning,
she revealed

why she hadn't suspected
anything sinister

in the weeks that followed.

(Jane Woodrow)
And he'd actually placed candles,

aromatic kind of candles,

to kill the smell
in strategic places,

and one over the garage,

which, presumably, he would have
been lighting quite often

when he had women round
because the body remained

in the flight bag, zipped up
for the next seven weeks.

(Richard) Under arrest
and confronted with the evidence,

Lindo confessed to killing Marie.

When the police
found Marie's body,

there is no way that Lindo would
have been able to explain that.

(David)
He came clean to the police

in admitting what had gone on
to a point,

admitted to manslaughter
and not murder.

(Richard) But would Marie's body
reveal a different story?

(Richard)
The sleepy village of Holmfirth,

scene of a brutal crime
in December 2011.

Police in Yorkshire
suspected Andrew Lindo

of murdering his fiancee,
Marie Stewart.

He had already confessed
to hitting her over the head

with a child's chair.

But Lindo claimed
it was spur of the moment...

manslaughter, not murder.

They'd had an argument one night,
and he just lost control,

were his words.

Basically, it just went
from there.

It was a sustained attack
over three floors of a house,

which certainly started
on the top floor

of the bedroom area.

All this is going on while
their own children are asleep.

(Richard) The postmortem
revealed Marie had been

repeatedly beaten
with a child's chair.

And despite efforts
to clean the scene,

forensics proved
this happened upstairs.

Lindo's girlfriend
corroborated this.

She noticed, like, stains and,
like, Vanish or some product

had been used to sort
of clear these stains.

(Richard)
But this violent beating

didn't account for all the
injuries on Marie's broken body.

The postmortem revealed more
of the horror of that night.

As well as the blunt force
injuries to her head,

there was also evidence that
Marie had been strangled.

Evidence of strangulation is
found in the larynx in the neck.

The larynx is a group
of three cartilages

that form the Adam's apple.

And they provide
the structure for the muscles

of speech and swallowing.

When force is applied to the neck,
the delicate spikes get broken,

and evidence of strangulation
can be identified.

Below the larynx is the windpipe,
and this is kept open

by hoops of cartilage,
so it's very strong

and very difficult to compress
to stop air passing through it.

More usually, strangling compresses
the vagus nerve in the neck.

And the vagus nerve passes
from the brain to the heart

and helps control the heartbeat.

So compression of the neck
compromises that nerve,

making the heart slow down
and beat irregularly

and can cause people
to lose consciousness.

So he may have thought
he'd killed her, but he hadn't.

Under police interview,
Lindo gave his version of events.

He was sitting on top of her.

She spat in his face.

He got incredibly angry and just
started to manually strangle her.

(Jane Smith)
Strangulation is very, very common

in controlling people.

It's very personal.

It's very "stare into your eyes."

I'm doing this to you, and I want
you to know I'm doing this to you.

It's an incredibly
personal violence.

But it does take
a little bit of time.

It's not quick.

And Marie would have fought.

He rendered her unconscious,
wrapped her into a rug,

put her into a suitcase,
started to take her downstairs,

but she started
making a noise in the suitcase.

Got her out again, attacked her
with a Winnie the Pooh chair,

causing injuries to the head,

and used his belt to try
and strangle her again.

Again, rendered her unconscious.

(Richard) Police recovered
the suitcase and rug,

and Forensics found
Marie's blood and DNA on them.

But it took further analysis
of Marie's body

to lead them to the belt.

At the postmortem,
Marie's neck was clearly

had bruising on it from fingers.

And then we know
that a belt was used.

The markings may not have been
totally clear at the time,

but you can use something
called light source,

which is a spectrum of light

which enhances
what the naked eye can't see.

This can then be
photographed, measured,

and then you've got an idea
of the width of the belt

that you'd be looking for
in the address.

They found his DNA,
her blood on it.

(Richard)
The evidence against Lindo

was strong and building.

(David) The attack came
as a total shock to Marie.

She was not expecting
this level of violence.

I cannot imagine what
she must have been feeling like

at this time,
to be attacked in the bedroom.

She's put up an incredible fight.

To be attacked twice there,
she must have been so frightened.

But she was still alive
at this point.

Took her down
three flights of stairs.

Next thing, she finds herself
in the garage,

fighting for her life,
fighting for her children.

It's unbelievable.

In the garage, he wrapped
her head in bubble wrap,

slit her throat,
and stabbed her 12 times.

The most ferocious attack,
you could argue,

with the bubble wrap and then
the knife, was downstairs.

So, you know, this was like
the end of a sustained attack.

(Richard)
After the attack,

evidence from Lindo's phone
and new girlfriend

revealed his next
calculating steps.

(David) After the attack, Lindo's
texted his current girlfriend

that he may be a little bit late
picking her up,

which is absolutely
so cold and calm

in his manner about this.

He then wakes up his two children,
who are fast asleep,

puts them in the car
to go and get his girlfriend,

who stays the night,
three floors up from where...

where the body is.

(Jane Woodrow) This is some person
that could actually

kill the mother of his children
while the children

are asleep in bed,
go and pick up his latest lover,

take her to his house
and have sex with her.

(Jane Smith) His behaviour
tells us quite a lot about him.

He's somebody who doesn't suffer
with shame or remorse or guilt.

He doesn't question
his own behaviours.

(Clive) It's macabre.

(Richard) The two-month gap
between the murder

and the discovery of the body
gave Lindo plenty of time

to try and cover his tracks.

(David) He's had seven weeks now
to clean up.

Nothing obvious in blood, maybe,
but it's so hard

to clean every piece of blood.

With the action of a knife
constantly stabbing,

you're going to have blood
flicking off the knife,

landing on items,
whether it be the wall,

the ceiling of the garage,
other items that are in there.

There may have been
quite a bit on the floor

that he has tried to clean.

(Richard) What's known
as a Luminol examination

took place in the garage.

(David) Luminol is a chemical
that reacts with blood.

Sprayed on all items, on walls.

And in a dark area,
it fluoresces blue.

This can then be photographed
and tested to see if it is blood.

(Richard)
This confirmed the garage

as the final murder
and deposition scene.

But despite having
admitted to manslaughter,

Lindo kept lying to the police,

trying to justify
the murder of Marie.

(Jane Smith) He's got
to do anything, say anything

that's going to mitigate him being
found with the body in the house.

He's really in a difficult place.

So he starts to denigrate Marie.

All he can say, really, is,
"I was annoyed with her

about the way
she treated the children."

Let's try and blacken her
character in any way that we can.

(Jane Woodrow) The fact
that he could kill her,

deprive the children
of their mother,

shows the kind of person
we're dealing with,

as well as the method
that he used.

And then the victim blaming
and shaming,

which he did all the way along -
oh, she belittled me, you know.

And that, in itself, you know,
picking on flaws in her

is kind of, like, dehumanising her
before he actually murders her.

So he doesn't see her
as this person any more.

(Jane Smith) It could be
he enjoyed violence.

He actually enjoyed
meting out the violence.

You know, a lot
of these type of people

will strangle and then
let you breathe again

so they can do it all again.

So this was like the work
of a psychopath, basically.

How could he do this?

Well, that's exactly
what I've said.

He could only do that
because he was able to do that.

And that says a lot
about his psychopathology.

Clearly, he has no care
for anybody else's feelings,

even his own children.

(Richard) Andrew Lindo was charged
with killing his fiancee, Marie.

But was this really manslaughter,
or could Marie's body prove

it was cold-blooded,
calculated murder?

He was absolutely determined
that Marie was going to die.

(Richard)
In 2011, Yorkshire Police

had arrested and charged
28-year-old Andrew Lindo

with the brutal murder
of his fiancee

and mother of their two young
children, Marie Stewart.

Her body revealed she'd been beaten,
then strangled, and more.

Her body showed
multiple stab wounds,

suggesting a sustained attack.

He wanted her dead, and he was
going to achieve that.

(Richard)
Marie's decomposing body

was found in a flight bag
in the garage

seven weeks after the murder.

Evidence proved that Lindo had
created a false digital trail

to throw people off the scent.

I can't imagine how cruel
and how awful this must have been

for the family, sending text
messages and Facebook messages

to try and back up
his tissue of lies.

(Richard) The truth was that Lindo
was a serial cheat

who'd had
a string of illicit affairs.

He's somebody who doesn't suffer
with shame or remorse or guilt.

He doesn't question
his own behaviours.

(Richard) Police believed
he'd killed Marie

to carry on a new life
with a new partner.

(Jane Smith) He probably would have
presented to other people

during that time
as perfectly normal.

(Richard) But Marie's postmortem
showed his actions

had been anything but normal.

In the garage,
Lindo stabbed Marie 12 times.

But the blow that killed her
was this stab wound to the neck.

The neck is a very
complex area of the body,

full of major blood vessels
and nerves and other structures.

The carotid arteries pass up,
carrying blood to the brain,

and the jugular veins
pass back down,

returning that blood to the heart.

Severing any one
of these major blood vessels

causes immediate severe blood loss.

And within minutes, the heart will
be unable to pump enough blood

around the body to sustain life.

After everything her body
had been put through and survived,

it was this stab wound to the neck
that finally sealed Marie's fate.

Lindo had confessed to the killing,

but claimed it was
spur-of-the-moment manslaughter,

not murder, which carried
a much higher sentence.

(Jane Smith) If you look
at the way that she died,

it seems completely disorganised.

That doesn't mean
it wasn't planned in some way.

(Richard) It would now be
for a court to decide.

Seven months after his arrest,

Lindo finally faced justice
in Bradford Crown Court.

He pleaded not guilty
to Marie's murder.

(Jane Woodrow)
He showed absolutely

no remorse at all in court.

And the family had
to sit and listen

to everything that had
gone on in that case

because he didn't plead guilty.

So they were forced
to sit through it.

And then he would come on
with these mock crocodile tears,

uh, as if he was really upset.

Sympathy, sympathy, look at me,
while all the time,

putting her family
through the awful detail

of what had happened, of her
murder, was utterly sickening.

(Richard) The prosecution team
put forward their theory

that Lindo had killed Marie
after she uncovered his infidelity.

She was thinking
about leaving him,

and she probably told him that.

And we know that in most
intimate partner homicides,

that is the trigger.

In over 90% of cases,
that is the trigger.

Unlike the other women
in Lindo's life,

Marie was living with him.

She was the mother
of his children.

And that puts her in a much more
dangerous position than them

because he thinks
he actually owns her.

At the point that Marie says,
"You don't own me, I'm leaving,"

that's when
she is in the most danger

she's ever been in her life,
but she probably didn't know that.

And when he realised
she was not budging,

that's when
he would have killed her.

(Richard) In court,
Lindo didn't take the stand,

but his defence argued
he'd lost control

after being provoked by Marie.

This chap's saying that this
was just a one-off, really.

I kind of lost my temper
for about ten seconds.

And well, no, hold up.

That evidence shows a sustained,
a very planned,

a very cold,
a very methodical attack.

(Jane Smith) At the trial,
Lindo's fighting for his life.

He's trying, at the very least,
to get a manslaughter charge,

rather than a murder charge.

So he's just throwing everything
at this now, everything.

It's really, really common.

How do I get out of this?
This is survival now.

(Richard) Lindo claimed he was
acting to protect his daughter.

Lindo basically tried
to put up a defence

that he was worried about Marie
attacking his daughter.

(Jane Smith) So he starts
denigrating Marie

and saying she's a bad mother
and that, you know,

she's this flaky person
and she couldn't be trusted.

(Jane Woodrow)
Lindo's basically blamed Marie

for her own death
because he said she was

being very cruel
to their daughter,

which is completely untrue.

She was a very, very good mother.

(Richard)
There was no physical evidence

of child cruelty,
no reports to Social Services.

And everyone who knew Marie
could testify

that this was a wicked lie.

(Jane Smith)
Everyone who knew her

knew that she would never do that.

If he was cleverer,
if he was more intuitive,

he would have chosen
an explanation

that actually fitted
with Marie's personality.

But he couldn't do that.

And he dug his own grave,
as it were.

(Richard) Marie's battered body
proved this was no flash of anger.

He'd planned to kill her,
strangling,

beating, suffocating, stabbing.

At each stage,
he could have stopped

and saved her life, but he didn't.

That's where the pathology report
basically becomes very important.

It's powerful evidence that this
wasn't just a one-off attack.

(Richard)
After a two-week trial,

the jury took just 55 minutes
to return their verdict.

Lindo was found guilty
of Marie Stewart's murder.

Lindo was sentenced
to 22 years in prison

before parole could be considered.

It was a sustained,
brutal, terrible attack

on a kind, loving woman.

(Clive) I really hope that
Marie will be remembered

for what she was, which was
a very kind, loving person,

who was a credit to our society.

And I hope that Lindo
will be condemned forever

as the wicked manipulator
that he is.

There are eight stages
in this journey

towards an intimate
partner homicide.

So the first stage is about
the controlling person

because this is all about control.

Second stage is when this person
meets somebody

they want to be
in a relationship with.

Generally, that relationship
will start very, very quickly,

and it will be very, very intense.

Third stage is when
these two people are

in a committed relationship,
and that will be

dominated by controlling patterns.

Now, the next stage is where

things start to get
more dangerous.

We call the fourth stage
the trigger stage.

Something happens to make
the risk suddenly shoot up.

Well, this person imagines
this person might leave them.

Stage five is when they escalate
all of their behaviours

to try and claw the control back
so that this person

doesn't leave or cannot leave.

Stage six, this is where
they start to think,

right, I can't get
the control back,

so I'm going to punish this person
for daring to leave me.

Stage seven is the planning stage.

How am I going to do this?

And stage eight is the homicide.

When I think about Marie
and what happened to her,

I can see those stages
playing out in her life

and her relationship in...

well, in almost the classic way.

(Jane Woodrow) This is clearly
a very dangerous man.

If he hadn't been caught
at this point,

I have absolutely no doubt
that he'd have been able

to continue murdering.

Lindo killed his fiancee, Marie,
in a series of brutal assaults

that began in their bedroom
not far from where

their young children slept
and continued down to the garage.

Not only had he tried
to strangle Marie

and hit her over the head
with a blunt object,

he'd also stabbed her
multiple times,

with a wound to the neck
finally proving fatal.

While Andrew Lindo tried
to cover up this terrible crime

by hiding Marie's body
in the garage, in the end,

he couldn't escape justice
because her body

revealed the truth
about her murder.

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