The Killer in My Family S5 Episode 3
The Killer in My Family S5 Episode 3
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00:00When Harry was drugging Carol, she would spend days and days in bed unable to speak.
00:12The medication he was obtaining and applying to his wife was not designed to make her feel
00:18better, but perhaps to make her feel lost.
00:22Harry wrapped her body in a duvet and put her under a gap in the floorboards.
00:29Harry Jarvis was a totally unexceptional individual to look at.
00:33He was very brazen about the whole thing, putting your lover up in a shed in the garden
00:39just outside the window where your wife is.
00:43Harry was determined to do what he did, to get what he wanted out of it, to do away with
00:49Carol and move on with Rita.
00:52That was all that Harry cared about.
00:56Just that worry in the back of your mind of, is he dead or is Harry the killer?
01:27Carol Jarvis had been reported missing two days before she was found dead.
01:34Initially, the missing persons report had come in from Carol's children to say that
01:40they hadn't seen their mum for some time, and that their father had said to them that
01:48she was away on respite care up in Dundee.
01:54When she disappeared, his reaction was, she's left the house, she's gone away.
02:00It's just utterly bizarre because she'd been bedbound for a significant amount of time.
02:06I decided to phone the police just to report a missing person.
02:12The police visited the house just to establish what had went on.
02:20A body was then discovered.
02:24I remember hearing on the news that a body had been found in a house in Bathgate, which
02:30was the area that my practice was based in, West Lothian.
02:37I was interested to know what was going to happen with the people who were being charged
02:42with murder.
02:45The police in Bathgate had discovered Carol's remains under the floorboards in Nye.
02:56There were clear signs there was a body that had become a deposition site.
03:01Thoughts very quickly from the police turned to, there's only one suspect in this case
03:05and it's her husband.
03:09It was a very tragic case, but from the perspective of those working as lawyers in the case, it
03:18was totally unique.
03:21The background to the death of Harry Jarvis's wife was bizarre.
03:30He was very brazen about the whole thing.
03:33Put your lover up in the shed in the garden just outside the window where your wife is.
03:41This looked like, on the surface, potentially quite a well-planned murder, but actually
03:48there were so many issues within Harry's plan for this.
03:54You couldn't make it up.
03:56I don't think he was particularly clever.
04:00He had some degree of intelligence, but he did a number of very foolish things.
04:08The whole set-up at the house was bizarre.
04:19Harry Jarvis and his wife Carol had four children.
04:23Graham is the youngest son.
04:27This one here's mum and dad, obviously, very young.
04:33Dad looks really, really young there.
04:36Mum's not wearing glasses or that, so that must have been when they were growing up together.
04:43But she looks happy.
04:47Graham was told his father was probably her killer and he was nowhere to be seen.
04:54If your spouse has just been found dead in the floor space in your house, your natural
05:00reaction as a grieving spouse would be to stay, to help the police with their enquiries,
05:05to support the children, to plan the funeral.
05:08So the fact that he absconded and was nowhere to be seen would have immediately raised suspicions.
05:15How can you see that somebody is going to do that?
05:18Unless they've wielded an axe or they've got a gun, then you can't suspect that somebody's
05:23going to hatch a plan to kill somebody or do it spur of the moment.
05:29You can't foresee that at all.
05:34It's going to be really tough for anyone who loses a parent to something as violent as a murder.
05:41But even more so when the person who took their life is their other parent.
05:47There's going to be a real conflict there between still loving a parent, as most people do,
05:53and hating them for what they've done.
06:00Harry Jarvis met his future wife Carol in the late 1970s when he was living in South
06:06London and working as a bus driver.
06:10I believe they met just by mum working in the shoe shop and then just dad asking her out on a date.
06:21Mum was 18, dad was 30, so a 12-year difference.
06:26People might say, oh, that's a big gap, but sometimes there's a connection or whatever
06:32it may be, it might just be it.
06:35By 1982, Carol and Harry Jarvis were married and the couple went on to have four children together.
06:43I just thought mum and dad were happy as a couple.
06:46You know, they argued like any other couple would and, you know, money or life worries,
06:52but for me, yeah, they were just a general, normal, happy mum and dad couple.
06:59In the early 1990s, the Jarvis family moved over 400 miles away from London,
07:06settling in the West Lothian town of Bathgate in Scotland.
07:15We settled in this house.
07:17A lot of the childhood memories and friends and neighbours...
07:22..and even sort of family gatherings happened in that house.
07:28She would be the first one up dancing or trying to cheer you up
07:32and, yeah, generally quite a bit dozy, but really sort of lively character when she wanted to be.
07:42She was just the mum that was there for you.
07:45Her main sort of life was centred around the kids and, you know,
07:49the kids' extra activities, such as the brownies, the guides.
07:54On the off chance she did have a cup of tea with a friend,
07:57it would be from her friends across the road, the house or next door neighbour,
08:01so generally just a very, very quiet life centred around the four kids.
08:07Carol was left to deal with the day-to-day running of the house and the children
08:12and she had to see to everybody's needs,
08:15because Harry was, you know, in and out of prison all the time.
08:21Probably about 97, 98 maybe, I remember visiting him in Stockton.
08:27He was in the hospital for a while,
08:30Probably about 97, 98 maybe, I remember visiting him in Stockton.
08:36So he was in jail then for whatever reason again, I'm not sure.
08:42Obviously if he was in prison, Mum had the kids and sort of his life to bring this up.
08:50Harry was a petty criminal, regularly committing low-level crimes
08:54such as deception, minor fraud and shoplifting.
09:00After the London buses, Dad never really had a permanent sort of career,
09:06a permanent job to hold down.
09:10He did try at times to hold down lawful employment
09:14and did try and become a fairly decent person.
09:20But it wasn't long before he would be enticed back into breaking the law again.
09:25Any time he was in prison or every time he'd done a disappearing act and he came back,
09:31it was just normal, nothing changed.
09:34There was never any talk about sort of Mum and Dad splitting up
09:38or any changes at all, it just went back to everyday life.
09:47When Harry Jarvis was out of prison,
09:50When Harry Jarvis was out of prison,
09:53there were still times when he'd go missing from the family home without warning.
09:59Dad used to disappear, you know, right from when I was a young kid
10:03right up until, you know, the last sort of days of seeing him.
10:08He would go anywhere from the local pub to ending up at his brother's down south
10:14to, you know, just no explanation given at all.
10:21For the family, the difficulties occurred when Harry was out of prison
10:25but would just then disappear for periods of time,
10:28which would cause Carol real anxiety.
10:33It just became the norm whereby it was like, oh,
10:36you know, we used to come home and Dad wasn't there
10:39and then sort of Mum would be a wee bit upset.
10:43That level of anxiety, no matter how hard she tried to shield her children from it,
10:48That level of anxiety, no matter how hard she tried to shield her children from it,
10:54would have been almost impossible because they would have picked up on
10:57Mum's not OK and Dad's missing
11:00and that would have caused some level of uncertainty and instability within the family fold.
11:08It was almost like Mum was fending for herself and looking after the four of us
11:13and that's when it kind of began to spiral out of control.
11:19Seeing their mum treated in that way would have had a massive impact on their family.
11:25Seeing their mum treated in that way would have had a massive impact on their family.
11:26Children are supposed to be protected,
11:28whereas they will have felt quite protective of their mother because of Harry's behaviour.
11:35Dad could do a lot of stuff and they used to fight like a can dog,
11:40but I don't think anybody could ever turn around and go,
11:43my dad's got it in him to kill somebody.
11:53Bathgate in Scotland was the Jarvis' family home for 18 years.
11:59Bathgate used to be home where I grew up really,
12:03so I know the streets like the back of my hand.
12:11Bathgate is a very average Scottish town with a very close-knit community.
12:17Most likely the locals would say nothing exciting ever happens here.
12:22Sometimes I drive by when I'm in Bathgate,
12:26I'll drive by or just sit out of the house for a couple of minutes
12:29just as a wee sort of memory to let Mum know that I'm still thinking about her
12:36and lets me get on with my day and life really.
12:44He felt quite resentful that he had a wife and children.
12:48He lived very much a playboy lifestyle, but didn't really have the cash to do so.
12:55So that's where he would fleece Carol and any other women who had the misfortune to meet him.
13:04Carol was aware that Harry had lots of other relationships outside of the marriage
13:10and I think she tolerated that.
13:15Carol Jarvis had been battling ill health and soon after moving to Bathgate
13:20was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and muscle degeneration.
13:27At that time, Graham had just turned 13.
13:33Initially, Mum used to just put me in bed,
13:36and I'd go to bed and she'd go to bed and I'd go to bed and she'd go to bed.
13:42Initially, Mum used to just be tired and fatigued
13:47and she used to sort of stay in bed a little bit
13:50and she used to sort of complain about having sore muscles.
13:55So that's my first memory of her being ill I feel like
13:59in terms of not being able to get out of bed as much.
14:04As Carol's health deteriorated further, Harry Jarvis became his wife's carer.
14:11I don't think Harry was a particularly caring individual.
14:14Would have relished the idea of having to care for Carol
14:19but actually he probably saw that as a bit of an excuse not to have a job,
14:24not to have to go to work every day
14:26and he saw it as an opportunity for financial gain as well
14:30because he used her money that she got to support him with having a disability
14:35for his own gain, going out to the pub, betting.
14:40He didn't think anything of just leaving Carol and the kids
14:43for weeks and weeks and weeks at a time.
14:47He was somebody who liked things to go his way.
14:52Anybody who came into his sphere was used and manipulated by him.
15:03Carol would take to bed, particularly if she was having a depressive episode.
15:09He would maybe play the attentive husband for a while
15:12but quickly got very bored of that.
15:15He would do his usual disappearing acts for quite a long time,
15:19come backwards and forwards.
15:28Carol absolutely adored Harry.
15:31He was able to read all his way back in and charm her.
15:35Looking back at it now, I think to myself,
15:38how did she manage to do that all?
15:40You know, I've sort of got the kids now and life's a struggle,
15:45so, yeah, fair play to Mum.
15:49She was one of a kind.
15:55As they became adults,
15:57Graham and his siblings each moved away from the family home.
16:01I left when I was 16.
16:05I went to stay with my friend through college and then uni.
16:11Obviously, in term time or at the weekends, I used to go back.
16:16So I was, like, sort of back and forth.
16:20Harry Jarvis was now living alone in the house with his wife, Carol.
16:25Harry Jarvis was involved in procuring the kids.
16:29Jarvis was involved in procuring the medication for Carol Jarvis.
16:34There were circumstances attached to that
16:37which would have indicated that he wasn't, perhaps,
16:40acting in her best interests.
16:43There was an indication that the medication he was obtaining
16:47and applying to his wife
16:50was not designed to make her feel better,
16:54but perhaps to make her feel worse.
16:56Every time I went round, everything was normal
16:59in terms of Dad was there and Mum was there.
17:03There was nothing sort of untoward.
17:07When Harry was drugging Carol,
17:09she would spend days and days in bed, unable to speak.
17:14She was very drowsy.
17:16She would sleep most of the time.
17:18The children would pop in and out.
17:20She was incapable of holding conversation,
17:22and purely because Harry was drugging her.
17:27When he used to disappear,
17:29and then we used to try and sort of take over
17:33or help out the caring between the siblings,
17:36Mum used to periscope,
17:38and we noticed a sort of difference
17:40when he wasn't there to when he was there.
17:45The fact that she was up and down
17:48could have been put down to something like fibromyalgia,
17:51rather than the direct correlation of her improving
17:54when Harry was away versus worsening when he was around.
18:00Conversations between me and the sister brothers...
18:05..were almost like, oh, like, you know,
18:08why is it that, you know, when Dad's away,
18:12then, like, she's up and about,
18:14and not even questioning it, just sort of like,
18:17oh, well, Mum's actually up, she's doing stuff.
18:20People who use poison or drugs
18:23to subdue a person for their own gain
18:27or to ultimately murder somebody, as Harry did,
18:31they're very weak individuals.
18:33It's something that can be done quietly,
18:36almost with minimal fuss and effort.
18:39Drugging somebody makes them easier to look after.
18:44I feel like you never thought,
18:46I feel like you never thought, oh, wait a minute here,
18:49like, eventually that's going to kill her,
18:53and that's a tough one.
18:58On September 11th, 2009,
19:01Graham unexpectedly bumped into his dad, Harry,
19:04in Bathgate town centre.
19:07The Friday I seen him at the market,
19:09he looked a bit dazed and confused,
19:11asked for a cup of pound.
19:14Never thought anything of it.
19:16I'd actually asked him, like, where's Mum?
19:18And he said, she's in the house sleeping.
19:21Graham noticed a woman trailing behind Harry.
19:24Unbeknownst to him, this was his father's latest lover.
19:29I didn't link the two of them together,
19:32but for whatever reason, that memory still comes back to me.
19:36Like, how did I remember, like, a total stranger sort of behind Dad?
19:41Like, was she that close to him?
19:46Graham told his eldest brother, Kevin,
19:49about their dad's strange behaviour at the market,
19:52so Kevin headed to the family home to check on his parents.
19:57His mum was nowhere to be seen,
19:59and Harry was being evasive about her whereabouts.
20:04This was so out of the ordinary that Carol would disappear
20:07without telling her children where she was going.
20:11I just wanted to find out where Mum was, you know,
20:16in terms of making sure she was all right,
20:20and, yeah, just something didn't add up.
20:25The children of Harry and Carol Jarvis came to the house,
20:30and Harry Jarvis seemed to do all he could
20:36to prevent them entering the house.
20:40It was complete manipulation by Harry Jarvis
20:46just to keep them out of his way.
20:50He gave us some story about he was moving to Dundee with Mum
20:55and she was up in Dundee.
20:59Graham decided to call the police.
21:03The police turned up to the house,
21:06to see if they could establish Carol's whereabouts.
21:10When police entered the property,
21:12they found a woman in Carol's bed who was not Carol,
21:15despite what she was claiming.
21:18Now, fortunately, one of the officers had previously met Carol,
21:21so realised that this was not Carol Jarvis.
21:26It would have been at that point
21:28where there's a strange woman in the bed,
21:31Carol is missing, this is really going to be bad,
21:34Carol is missing, this is really going to raise alarm bells for police.
21:38The mystery person under the bed
21:41was a woman called Rita Haster.
21:45It had become apparent that there was this person called Rita.
21:50We had never really experienced Rita before.
21:55And there was still no sign of Carol Jarvis.
21:59The police, you know, said to us that, you know,
22:02that mum was an adult and there's nothing they could do for 24 hours.
22:07I had no idea what was coming.
22:12The police in Bathgate had discovered
22:15Carol's remains under the floorboard.
22:19Carol Jarvis had been reported missing.
22:24Outside the Jarvis family home,
22:26Rita Haster had been revealed as the mystery woman found in the house.
22:33There was another person in the house that had been found missing.
22:38It was a woman called Rita Haster.
22:41She had been reported missing.
22:44There was another person in the house that Dad had claimed to be his mum.
22:51On the night, we had no idea as to who she would be.
22:55When Graham saw the woman, he immediately recognised her.
22:59She was the woman he'd seen with his dad just before Carol's disappearance.
23:08He was in the market.
23:10And I remember her trailing behind him
23:14for some bizarre reason.
23:16She had a suitcase and, again, I didn't link the two of them together,
23:20but for whatever reason, that memory still comes back to me.
23:26Harry met Rita Haster in 2008 on the internet
23:32and immediately hit it off.
23:35And, of course, when Rita told him
23:38who her family was,
23:41a very well-known, very famous, very wealthy baker,
23:47he immediately decided that she was going to be his next partner,
23:52purely for financial gain.
23:56We're talking millions of pounds.
23:58That's the big attraction for Harry,
24:01Rita's money.
24:04He's a very manipulative individual.
24:07He was a liar.
24:09And he, I think, showed narcissistic tendencies.
24:15He cared about nobody else, really, other than Harry Jarvis.
24:21Rita was an heiress and a lot is made about the fact
24:24that she was in this position.
24:28But financially, she was actually in quite a dire situation.
24:32She'd lost her house.
24:34She'd squandered her fortune.
24:36So it's almost like he's the protector in this role
24:39and Carol's the enemy that needs to be removed,
24:42so him and Rita can be together and he can save her.
24:47You've got Harry at the centre of this family picture,
24:53with everyone else orbiting around him,
24:57almost like objects in his game,
24:59and he's moving the pieces.
25:01Absolutely horrendous.
25:04Initially, the missing persons report had come in
25:08from Carol's children
25:10to say that they hadn't seen their mum for some time.
25:16You're probably just thinking, where's mum?
25:18Has he left her somewhere?
25:21In a hotel?
25:23Or has he said goodbye to her?
25:27I don't know.
25:30Police said that they would conduct a further search
25:33to try and ascertain where Carol Jarvis was.
25:37After 24 hours, Carol was still missing.
25:41Police returned to the Jarvis house.
25:46Harry's mum, Rita, was found dead in the house.
25:50She was found dead in the house.
25:52She was found dead in the house.
25:54She was found dead in the house.
25:57Harry and Rita Hayster were no longer there.
26:02They had to walk around the house
26:04to see if she's got her bus pass, her purse, her bag,
26:08if there's any recent photos of her, so they can log it.
26:17The police did discover something unusual in the garden shed.
26:22Rita Hayster had been living in the shed.
26:26So you've got a missing woman who was very unwell,
26:30you've got a missing husband who has just disappeared,
26:35and then they found someone's actually been living in the shed.
26:39This is a very, very absurd situation.
26:45The conditions there, dirty, grubby, basic.
26:49For anyone to live in those squalid conditions
26:52was a great surprise to me.
26:56The shed in the garden was a very basic six-by-six garden shed.
27:02There was a tiny window in it.
27:04And Rita lived in the garden in the shed,
27:07which basically just had a single mattress and a blanket.
27:13No toilet facilities.
27:16No toilet facilities existed.
27:19They were improvised facilities in the form of a bucket.
27:25And that was about it.
27:30The shed was right outside the windows of the house.
27:33It wasn't far away, only a matter of feet.
27:36And, really, the shed was so close to the house
27:42that it surprised me that that's exactly where it was.
27:48Harry may have been incredibly good
27:51at finding victims who were susceptible to his charms.
27:58You can see that with the relationship with Rita,
28:01persuading her to live in the shed.
28:05If you find the right target,
28:08a person can be very charmed and hopeful.
28:13We didn't really know anything about her until the Monday night.
28:17It was almost like this Rita woman,
28:21the lover that was hiding in the shed.
28:26Bizarre.
28:30I have no reason to believe that she was there under any duress.
28:38I do think she was there from the evidence,
28:42under the manipulative aspects of Harry Jarvis's character,
28:48and he persuaded her to go there.
28:51I'm not saying that was against her will,
28:53but I'm sure that this was his initiative
28:57and that this is what he wanted.
29:07Rita's residence in the shed was, unfortunately,
29:10not the only discovery the police made at the Jarvis house.
29:17When the police came round, they said,
29:20like, listen, you know, we've found a body in the house,
29:25and, yeah, we knew that it would be Mum.
29:31If you're looking for a person and they find a body,
29:34there's a good chance there's not going to be some deuce, is there?
29:41What had been a missing person case was now a murder investigation.
29:47Harry was determined to do what he did to get what he wanted out of it,
29:52which was to do away with Carol and move on with Rita.
29:57That was all that Harry cared about.
30:01For Graham, what he's caring about is a lot bigger.
30:06It's like just gut-wrenching.
30:11You've almost prepared for yourself for two days
30:14that, you know, something bad's happened,
30:17and you're kind of stopping yourself from thinking the worst.
30:31Nobody knows exactly when Carol Jarvis died,
30:35but sometime between September 11th and September 15th, 2009,
30:40the police in Bathgate had discovered
30:44Carol's remains under the floorboards in the house.
30:49Apparently, the children used to play in that exact spot.
30:56There was two basements.
30:58The wee one in the living room is where they found her.
31:02We used to go down there as kids and play hide-and-seek.
31:06I used to have a mini kid snooker table down there and stuff.
31:13Hearing that from the police at Guinness just makes you sick.
31:19It was just horrific.
31:22It was just horrendous. Like, I was sick.
31:28Harry was so blinded by his obsession with Rita,
31:31he just wasn't thinking about consequences or next steps.
31:35He wanted to be with Rita.
31:37He saw that Carol was in the way of that.
31:41Therefore, remove Carol, and he's free to be with Rita.
31:46That's probably about as sophisticated as it got.
31:51Carol's husband, Harry Jarvis,
31:53had last been seen in the house the day before
31:56with Rita Hayster.
32:00Police needed to find the couple urgently.
32:08I'd got a text message from a police contact
32:11who said that there had been a body found in a house in Bathgate.
32:18It became very apparent very quickly
32:22that they had a suspect close to home for the...
32:27The police basically said to us,
32:29listen, we're trying to find the dad, we don't know where he is.
32:34Just that sort of worry in the back of your mind of the,
32:38wait a minute here, like, is he dad or is he Harry the killer?
32:47I can't believe that he could have been a killer
32:51or was a killer.
32:53I still sit here in disbelief that that's happened.
33:07Harry and Rita were on the run.
33:11With Carol found dead in the basement
33:14and evidence that Rita had been living in the shed for some time,
33:19they were both now prime suspects for Carol's murder.
33:27Harry and Rita spent the night in a B&B
33:30and the next morning they disappeared without paying.
33:34The owners of the B&B phoned the police
33:37and gave a description of the people that had just left without paying.
33:42Police tracked down the couple the day after Carol's body was discovered,
33:47arresting them as they got off a bus in Edinburgh.
33:51Both were charged with murder.
33:54They released him on bail
33:56and they were still with a court process to go through.
34:00It was almost like he was still dad
34:03and I think the four of us spoke and was like,
34:06well, we're just going to need to try and help him somehow.
34:11Giving him, like, sort of a jacket or money to go and stay somewhere.
34:16You didn't think it was possible.
34:21It was almost that moral compass of, like, mum would want us to help him out.
34:30I can sense that kind of tension,
34:32that struggle between my dad and this murderer
34:37and I think that tension is always present for Graham.
34:41He works really hard to find a way to deal with that internal conflict,
34:46which at times can be very difficult for him.
34:55As the details of the case started to emerge
34:58and the horror in which Carol had died
35:01and the circumstances under which she had died,
35:05people couldn't believe it.
35:07You know, how could this happen right under their noses?
35:10After police had found Carol's body,
35:12love letters that Harry Jarvis had sent to Rita were discovered in the house.
35:19Harry shows that he had every intention of killing Carol
35:23because of the content of the letters that he sent Rita.
35:26That in and of itself is very juvenile.
35:32One said,
35:33The drugs are doing the job.
35:35Just took longer than I thought.
35:37But going fast now.
35:41Another claimed,
35:42Carol is dying as I write.
35:44Then we have the house to ourselves and sell all in it to move on.
35:49Dangerous times, but we'll get there.
35:53We can see Harry's intention with the letters that he was writing to Rita.
35:58There is definitely premeditated behaviour at play here.
36:03So this wasn't a crime of passion.
36:05This was a crime of planning.
36:13Harry's trial began on January 31, 2011.
36:21He pleaded not guilty
36:23and the true horrors of the crime played out.
36:28In court.
36:31There was no established cause of death,
36:33but the circumstances pointed to Harry
36:37having a major involvement in the deterioration of her health.
36:42Creating a set of circumstances
36:45with the administration of medication or maladministration of medication
36:50which contributed to that.
36:54Harry was already drugging Carol.
36:57He anticipated that he would be able to get rid of her fairly quickly.
37:04After Carol passed away,
37:07Harry wrapped her body in a duvet
37:10and put her under a gap in the floorboard.
37:17And he told the police that he'd put Carol there to keep her close to him.
37:22I mean, he tried to claim that Carol had died from natural causes.
37:27Hiding her in the way that he did
37:29and saying she died of natural causes
37:32just shows a real lack of remorse.
37:37Carol was identified through DNA from her fingertips
37:41because there had been such a decomposition of the body.
37:46The post-mortem could not show any cause of death
37:49and how Harry did it.
37:55Harry Jarvis wrote notes which were produced in evidence
37:59and the prosecution relied on those notes.
38:02They were crucial to the prosecution case
38:05to show some degree of evil intent on his part
38:09and some intention to act to the detriment of his wife's health.
38:14And, as the prosecution argued, his intention was to kill her.
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38:26The jury concluded that all the evidence was such
38:30that a clear inference could be drawn beyond reasonable doubt
38:34that Harry was responsible for her death.
38:42Harry Jarvis was eventually convicted of murder
38:45and sentenced to life imprisonment.
38:50Even after the verdict, Harry remained silent about the murder.
38:56We'll never know as to what happened, what made him do it
39:02or how he'd done it.
39:04If he'd stabbed her or shot her, then that's, like, clean cut,
39:08but it was never a case of it was clean cut as to what had happened.
39:17Graham, as an adult, has to come to terms with
39:22his father murdered his mother and buried her body in the house.
39:28That his father had a mistress living in the shed
39:33and had planned to get rid of Carol and run off with Rita.
39:40That his father was basically a criminal hidden in plain sight
39:45and this is the person you call Dad.
39:49This would be mind-blowing for Graham to wrap his head around
39:54all these multiple narratives about this one man.
39:59This is my dad, I loved him as a child
40:02and these are the things that he did as a result of his behaviour.
40:07Rita Haster instructed a member of my firm
40:11who instructed me as solicitor advocate
40:14to defend her for the charge of murder.
40:17Five months later, on June 15th,
40:20Rita Haster stood trial at Edinburgh High Court,
40:24charged with murder and attempting to defeat the ends of justice.
40:30DNA identified as being that of Rita Haster
40:34was found at the edge of the trap door
40:38leading down to the cellar area below the living room
40:42where the body of Carol Jarvis was found.
40:45That doesn't necessarily mean that Rita Haster was there
40:48but it did link her physically to the premises
40:52and to the vicinity where the body was found.
40:57But the finding of her DNA in the house
41:00together with all the other circumstances
41:02led the jury to convict her of the charge
41:05of attempting to defeat the ends of justice.
41:09And she was sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment for that.
41:13But, of course, the murder charge did not apply to her.
41:20In 2017, six years into his life sentence,
41:2467-year-old Harry Jarvis died in prison of heart failure.
41:34Graham and his siblings would have felt this huge loss
41:37with their mother but also with their father.
41:40So there will be lots of complex feelings here
41:43and trying to figure out that relationship
41:46and where it stands after that point.
41:49Harry dying in prison might not have brought closure to his family
41:52because he didn't serve much of his sentence.
42:05Because you've lost both of them,
42:07because you've lost both of them,
42:09you're not really angry, you're more sad at the overall situation.
42:16It all did get on top of me
42:18and then I've done some mental health therapy stuff,
42:22CBT and that, which helped.
42:31I still have, you know, I still have the odd nightmare
42:35about the basement and the floor
42:39and I don't know if I'll be able to get rid of it at all.
42:48Life goes on, eh?