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[tense music]

[Clerk] In court number one,

His Majesty's Advocate against Aren Pearson.

- The point of a trial

is that the Crown lay before a jury an allegation,

and that allegation in this case is murder.

[Operator] What's the emergency there?

[Aren] Hi, my name is Aren Pearson.

I just killed my girlfriend in a hot tub in the garage

[camera shutter snapping]

has stabbed her about 40 times.

In the heart and in the stomach...

...and in the face and in the neck and in the back.

[Operator] What's your girlfriend's name?

[Aren] Claire Leveque.

- In the summer of '23 Claire met Aren Pearson,

but we never met him.

- Claire didn't tell me that she was seeing this guy

until she was already in Scotland.

- It all happened so quick and I thought everything was fine.

- Did she tell you about any injuries or anything?

- Nothing at all.

Otherwise, maybe this wouldn't have happened.

- My job is to prove to the jury,

Aren Pearson killed Claire Leveque.

- Mr. Leveque, we have some records which suggest that

there was a telephone call with Aren Pearson that day.

- Don't remember it.

- There is no onus on an accused person to disprove the case.

I've got no more questions, thank you.

The Crown have to prove the case.

- This is just a horror story from the beginning.

[Claire] I came here.

I left everything behind for you.

Why would you hit me?

[Aren] You're lucky, I didn't gash your [beep] head in, okay?

- Him trying to walk out of the courtroom was just unbelievable.

[Margaret] The body map shows severe and significant injuries.

- Could any of these injuries have been self-inflicted?

- Could they, in principle, have been self-inflicted?

Yes.

- All I'm endeavouring to do ask questions

of which may raise doubt in the minds of the jury.

Mr. Pearson is to give evidence.

[Judge] As jurors,

You must not be swayed by any emotional consideration

which you might have.

Every accused is presumed innocent until proved guilty.

The Crown must establish guilt beyond reasonable doubt.

[tense music]

[gentle music]

- We had flown into the Shetland Islands.

Then we drove up to Sandness.

It was important

so that we could see the things that she loved

and, and the places that...

[indistinct chatter]

...she had sent pictures of.

So we could feel like a connection to her there.

- I think I needed to go there,

most of all to see where she lived

and what she was doing there.

[gentle music continues]

[Jenny] You know, you picture like somewhere remote,

but like, this is...

- Literally in the middle of nowhere.

- It just makes me feel

sick to my stomach.

Walking up to the house with Clint,

it felt heavy.

- I looked in there and I could see her where she sat.

It hurt.

[gentle music continues]

[sombre music]

[Clerk] Court!

- Good morning.

Good morning everyone.

You will remember that on Friday,

the Advocate Depute closed the Crown case.

Mr. Paterson, good morning.

- There was a body of evidence led by the Crown.

And thereafter Mr. Pearson has the opportunity

to either give evidence or not give evidence.

[tense music]

- We had heard that there was a chance

that the accused might take the stand.

- Of course you are innocent until you're proven guilty.

He's got every right to not take the stand.

- My Lord, thank you, good morning.

Mr. Pearson, is to give evidence, my lord.

[eerie music]

- Thank you very much.

Would you please come forward, Mr. Pearson?

- I guess he literally thinks he can win over the jury.

- He has to provide an explanation

as to how Claire Leveque came to sustain 26 stab wounds.

- There are pros and there are cons.

The pros are the accused person

may well be believed by the Jury.

the result of that would be an acquittal.

The cons are, of course,

that the accused person’s then a witness,

They'll be asked questions which could

be awkward for them,

and the case will be put to them.

I want to hear what he has to say, because

I don't think any of it's going to make sense.

- Mr. Pearson?

- Yes.

- Do you accept that you were ever abusive towards Claire?

[suspenseful music]

- Well, yes and no.

Uh,

there were times where we drank just far too much

and we were abusive to one another.

We got along great when we were sober.

Everything was really good, It was...

I did love her.

I did.

Still do.

- Did you ever threaten that you would kill her?

- No.

- This is challenging case

because of the evidence, of course.

There was a 999 call that was made.

There was an admission by Mr. Pearson.

But the issue that was

pertinent in relation to the whole case is what happened

before the 999 call was made.

That is the issue in the trial.

[suspenseful music continues]

Mr. Pearson, I'm going to move on and ask you about the day

that Claire Leveque died.

We've seen some CCTV of the two of you

in your car driving to various places.

[Aren] Yes.

- Now, there was a bottle of liquor,

you bought that and you took it back to the shed.

Correct?

[Aren] Yes.

- So as the afternoon progressed,

what happened?

- She was in the shed with me,

and I could tell by the tone in her voice

that she was already really drunk.

- Did you say anything to her?

- I remember requesting that she go to bed.

Then she said the words ‘Fuck you’ to me.

[sombre music]

- What happened the next time you saw Claire?

- I was in the shed

and she had come through the door furious with me,

physically swinging at me.

I believe I had just finished speaking with her father

about sending her back.

I believe I offered him some money.

I told him that I had already booked the flights.

She was really, really, really upset with me.

She had heard me speaking to him.

- So...

when she came in, what happened next?

- She... she literally punched my top plate denture

right out of my mouth.

- What happened then?

- She went over to pee in the... in the... the garbage can

that I used earlier to bail the, uh, the water out of the tub.

Um,

she was really drunk,

and I was telling her everything she wanted to hear

because she had obviously heard me speaking with her dad,

and she was furious.

[sombre music continues]

- Aren claims that Claire overhears a conversation

between Aren and her dad,

[tense music]

and in that conversation,

it's said that Aren is going to take Claire back home to Canada.

He's going to go with her

because she can't live here anymore

because of the dreadful alcoholic

that he claims that she is.

- What happened then?

- Uh, next thing I knew, I heard her kind of cough

and kind of choke and then fall,

but with, uh, a, a grey bottle of brake fluid to her mouth.

She appeared to have drunk it.

She had also fallen over on the floor

and was rolling around in her own, in her own urine.

There was a struggle on the ground.

She kind of got me in the stomach with her elbow,

at which point she did a really, really epic, um,

faceplant on the arm of the couch.

There was an old black-handled knife

that basically had lived in the garage all the time.

Um, she grabbed the knife.

And then...

and then she kind of did, like, a 180

with the knife in her right hand and landed in the water.

[tense music continues]

Give me one second, please.

[breathing shakily]

- My opinion on his defence during this trial is,

it's a farce.

It's just absolute ridiculousness.

- She then looked at me,

looked at the knife

and stuck it in her stomach.

[suspenseful music]

She then looked at me,

looked at the knife

and stuck it in her stomach.

She started screaming and she repeated

to puncture herself here, I believe, like this.

[suspenseful music continues]

- How many times did she stab herself

when she was in the hot tub?

- I, uh, I would, uh, 4 or 5.

- Do you have any recollection of being in the hot tub

with Claire?

- No.

- Did you, um, take the phone from your mother

and speak to the police?

- No recollection of that whatsoever.

No, I don't.

- Do you have any recollection of, uh,

saying horrible things and nasty,

unpleasant things to police officers?

- No, no, I don't.

No, I don't.

I remember being restrained.

I remember bits and pieces of being in the hospital.

I do not remember speaking in the 999 call.

[suspenseful music continues]

I don’t know what happened.

- Mr. Pearson, I have no more questions.

His evidence was quite simple, actually,

and I suppose to put it to distil it down,

that was Claire Leveque drinking too much,

and then confronting him and then causing herself injuries,

and thereafter his recollection of events was very limited.

- Advocate Depute, I expect you have er,

questions for the witness.

- Thank you, My Lord.

[tense music]

Good afternoon, Mr. Pearson.

- Good afternoon.

- In cross-examining Aren Pearson,

I want to show the inconsistencies in his evidence.

From the first statement that he made to his mother

that he'd hurt Claire,

to the position he adopted at police interview,

that he couldn't remember because he was in shock.

Now, we've heard evidence during this trial

that on the 11th of February,

Claire Leveque died and her cause of death

was stab wounds of the neck and chest, wasn't it?

- Uh, yes, ma'am.

- And you inflicted those stab wounds, didn't you, Mr. Pearson?

- Not that I recall, ma'am.

- And she tried to defend herself

when you were assaulting her,

didn't she?

- Once again, I do not remember.

- Do you remember the photographs, Mr. Pearson?

- Ma'am, I... I do remember the photographs,

but I don't remember doing anything like that.

- And that wasn't the first time you had hurt Claire, was it?

The Crown case is not that Aren Pearson,

suddenly out of the blue,

decided to assault Claire Leveque

on the 11th of February of 2024,

the Crown case is that what happened is, in effect,

the culmination of a number of months

of domestically abusive behaviour.

[tense music continues]

We heard the recording

that was recorded on the 12th of December of 2023.

Claire Leveque says to you,

"You beat the shit out of me on my 24th birthday."

- I see that, yes.

- And you tell her that was the second time.

- That was the second time we had a significant argument.

- No, so you don’t deny beating her up,

you accept that you beat her up on the 24th of November,

is that right?

- Reciprocated yes.

- So by reciprocated, do you mean you hit her?

- After being punched in the head several times, yes, ma’am.

- Mr. Pearson... - Ma'am, this is...

- Mr. Pearson...

- Okay. My apologies, my apologies.

- The question was, did you hit her?

- Yes, yes I did.

- She's just ear to ear, grinning.

I love this one at the beach,

she was eating like a pile of sand, and...

then later she's spitting it out.

[laughing]

Claire was a very prominent part of my life growing up

and through later years of her life.

We spent our whole childhood together.

[melancholic music]

In late November, I received some messages from Claire

[message chimes]

that kind of changed the story

about the safety of where she was.

[message chimes]

She said that she had been abused by Aren Pearson.

[message chimes]

Upon hearing that, I grew very worried and very concerned

about her well-being.

I was telling her, like, if it happens once,

it's going to happen again.

You got to get out of this situation.

You got to get out of here.

I started implementing a plan to come pick her up,

to get Claire home and get her out of this relationship safely.

But the next day, she said that everything was fine,

that everything was okay,

and that everything was worked out.

[message chimes]

But in my gut though, I just knew something wasn't right.

[message chimes]

I was gonna come pick her up.

If I would've just came a little bit sooner.

I miss her a lot.

[melancholic music fades]

[tense music]

- You told your mum on the 11th of February of 2024

that you had hurt Claire, didn't you?

- According to my mum, yes.

- That was after you had returned to the house

after driving your car into the sea, wasn't it?

- According to my mum, yes.

[tense music continues]

- The Crown case is that after Aren Pearson

had either killed Claire Leveque

or injured her so badly that he thought that he had killed her,

he drove his car into the sea

at a point very close-by to the house in Sandess.

[camera shutter snapping]

- Aren had already got quite a reputation

for his fast driving across the island.

[engine roaring]

[orchestral music]

He had a very fancy silver Porsche.

He drove it everywhere.

He set up a YouTube channel.

[engine roaring]

And Claire,

you would buy into that, wouldn't you?

This is a wealthy man, he's got a Porsche.

And I also heard that the reason he had the Porsche

was that he was buying and selling drugs on that island.

But nothing was ever proven.

[orchestral music continues]

- How long would it take you to drive

from the house to the point

where we saw the tyre tracks going off

onto the grass, and then into the sea?

- In a hypothetical scenario,

because once again, I can't remember doing it,

but in a hypothetical scenario,

it could be seconds to a minute, maybe.

[engine roaring]

[tense, orchestral music]

[water splashes]

- I don't know why

Aren Pearson drove his car into the sea.

That's for him to explain.

But it adds to our timeline,

because having visited the island,

I know that that beach is only a very short drive from the house.

[gentle music]

So if you drove into the sea,

swam to the shore, and then walked back,

you could probably do all of that in about 15 minutes,

maybe ten minutes.

Would that be fair to say?

- It would be fair to say that.

- He is seen walking back from the beach area

at about quarter-to-5 in the evening.

[camera shutter snapping]

I just thought that it was weird that...

that he was just walking back to the house.

That, to me, was extremely weird.

- And again, that's a key marker in the timeline

because it's shortly after that

that we had the 999 call made by Janet Pearson.

[Janet] She's bleeding -

[Operator] Where is she?

[Janet]...and dying in a hot tub.

[eerie music]

- Why did you drive your car into the sea?

- Again, I can't remember doing that.

- So did you do that after you had stabbed

Claire Leveque multiple times, Mr. Pearson?

- I did not stab Claire multiple times, to my knowledge.

- And you inflicted superficial wounds to your neck.

- According to the photograph and my mum.

- You told the 999 operator

that you killed her because she drank too much

and acted like an idiot,

and she’d pissed you off.

- Yeah, that’s... that was me.

But once again, I can't remember saying it.

- Well, the question isn't about what you remember, Mr...

- I'm just making myself clear.

I didn't want you to twist my words.

- You assaulted her by stabbing her 26 times, Mr. Pearson.

- How many times do I need to repeat myself, ma'am?

[sombre music]

- It was such a violent assault

that it left a piece of the knife embedded in her skull.

And you did that, didn't you?

- That's what the evidence is saying, I suppose.

- It was just the constant, ‘I don’t know.

I don’t know. Ma’am, I don’t know’.

It... it was like ‘why did you even take the stand?’

[clock ticking]

- So Crown production 87 is the transcript of the interview

that was conducted on the 13th of February of 2024

at Lerwick Police Office.

And the top of page three, the police officer says,

‘Okay, you know she's obviously passed away,'

and you say, ‘Yeah, I've been hearing it in here.’

- Yeah. One of the officers told me in there, yeah.

- So are you saying that it wasn't until

you were interviewed by police on the 13th of February

that you knew that Clare had died?

- That's correct.

- You took a video of yourself sitting in the hot tub

with Clare in the hot tub, didn't you?

- I highly doubt that.

[sombre music continues]

[tense music]

- Aren Pearson says he can't remember what happened

after he said Claire had stabbed herself,

But there was a video that he had recorded himself

and I want to use that to again

point out an inconsistency in his account.

- He was in the hot tub with Claire still

when the police showed up.

- My Lord, I wish to play that particular piece of video,

just 15 seconds.

And if you can listen carefully to it as well, Mr Pearson.

- Sure. Okay.

Come on in.

Fucking goo.

Fuck you, you fucking pig!

- [Margaret] Now that's your voice, isn't it, Mr. Pearson?

[Aren] It is, ma'am. Yeah.

- We see a hand there, Mr. Pearson.

And that's Claire Leveque in the hot tub with you.

- I'm... I... I'm not sure.

I don’t... I don’t... I don’t see...

- So you're in the hot tub...

- I can't confirm because, like I said, I don't...

- Mr Pearson, I can show the footage that shows her face,

now I'm loathe to do that, My Lord.

- No, please don’t. Please don’t.

That... that... I can't...

[sombre music continues]]

[Judge] If you require to do it, Advocate Depute,

then you proceed as you see fit.

- Thank you, My Lord. If we can...

again, I warn those who are in the court...

- Oh God, no, please don’t show that.

- ... that this will show the face of the deceased,

very briefly.

I'm conscious that these kinds of images are very distressing.

And while it's something that I don't choose to do lightly,

if it's an important piece of evidence,

I will have to show that piece of evidence.

- I'm not looking at it.

[tense music]

- I didn't even recognise her.

She was so pale.

I knew...

I didn't recognise her face.

It was just...

It was awful.

I wasn't expecting that at all.

- There is an audible intake of breath

when we're shown Claire in the hot tub.

The jury have their head in their hands.

They're... some of them are crying.

[Margaret] Can we just stop that there?

Thank you.

- I can only imagine how tough it is for the officers.

Somebody is so, so severely injured,

and somebody just confessed to actually killing them

on the phone, while they're actively driving to this call.

[camera shutter snapping]

- We obviously saw it just there when we were at the house

and – but you just don’t think about it at the time.

The only time I really thought about things

was when I saw a picture of Claire in the local press,

and it was just a shock

because you were just seeing a young lass

like a pretty young lass,

and that's not the person that I saw in the garage.

- Now, we saw the face of Claire Leveque

in that video, Mr. Pearson.

- Okay.

- You took that video, didn't you?

- Ppff. I'm assuming so.

- And yet you wish to maintain

that you did not know that Claire was dead

when the police interviewed you two days later.

- I maintain that, ma'am.

- You were angry.

You were shouting and swearing at the police

when Claire was lying dead in that hot tub,

weren't you, Mr. Pearson?

- Yes, in that video, yeah.

- You murdered Claire Leveque, didn't you?

- As far as I remember, no, ma'am.

- No further questions, thank you, my lord.

[sombre music]

- He couldn't explain what he had done that day,

so he was now making up a story,

and in doing so, he was further abusing Claire.

[sombre music continues]

[Judge] Members of the Jury, we're now ready to proceed

to the next phase of the trial,

in which Counsel will be addressing you

directly from the lectern,

Please feel free to continue to take whatever notes

you think will assist you

in your deliberations.

- The jury has a lot to consider.

I have to be able to establish beyond a reasonable doubt

that Aren Pearson not only killed Claire Leveque,

but that he murdered her.

And that's a slightly different test.

- I now invite the Advocate Depute

to address you for the Crown.

Advocate Depute.

[Clerk speaks indistinctly]

[tense music]

Thank you, my Lord.

Good morning, members of the jury.

'You’re gonna kill me.’

That is what Claire Leveque said to the accused,

Aren Pearson on the 12th of December of 2023.

Just two short months later,

Aren Pearson said to a 999 call operator,

‘My name is Aren Pearson,

I've just killed my girlfriend

in the hot tub in the garage at Ringville,

The Annexe, Sandness.’

He went on to describe how he had definitely killed her,

‘To make sure,

I drowned her after I stabbed her several times,

and beat her the fuck up really badly.’

[sombre music]

- Obviously what was said in that 999 call

was a very significant piece of evidence in the trial.

There's no getting away from that.

Now, of course, Mr. Pearson explained

that he couldn't recollect that 999 call

and that was his position he adopted.

This is a very tragic set of events.

But what you can't do, members of the jury,

is to bring emotions into your decision-making.

In Scotland, the level or standard of proof

is proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

And what I say to almost every jury that I speak to is this,

if you were to pause or hesitate

in relation to an allegation,

that pause, that hesitation,

our law says as a reasonable doubt.

Your duty is then to acquit.

- When Claire says to Aren Pearson,

‘You beat the shit out of me on my 24th birthday,’

his response was not a denial.

No, what he said was that was the second time.

He also appears to blame Claire for him hitting her.

Does that sound familiar?

Because on the evidence we heard yesterday and today,

Aren Pearson appears to blame Claire Leveque

for inflicting the stab wounds on herself.

- The suggestion made by the Crown to Mr. Pearson was

that his testimony was fabricated and not true.

But I suppose my function is to look at the evidence

and try and say, ‘Well,

this... these are the aspects which support it’.

[gentle music]

I'm asking you to bring a common sense to this.

If he's just going to come up with a fabricated,

total nonsense of a story.

Why not just say she did everything to herself?

Because he's not said that.

He said he's got no memory.

He said he saw inflicting wounds to herself,

there being blood and then no memory.

Maybe members of the jury come to the view that perhaps

she had had too much to drink.

Perhaps she was drunk.

- The pathologist told you it's entirely unrealistic to suggest

Claire Leveque inflicted those stab wounds on herself.

- He didn't seem to suggest that it couldn't have happened.

That maybe members of the jury, that you're left thinking,

well, really?

Where we are, where are we with that evidence?

- This is what his whole life is riding on.

Suicide.

Claire killing herself and doing this to herself.

I thought it was a joke.

- The evidence tells you, members of the jury,

Aren Pearson, murdered Claire Leveque.

- If he's going to lie,

you know, you might think it'd be a big lie.

But if he's telling the truth, members of jury,

you ought to acquit him.

[tense music]

- So, members of the jury,

you've now heard all the evidence in this case.

For the Crown to prove the crime of murder

you would have to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt

that the accused, Aren Pearson,

killed Claire Leveque on 11th February 2024.

The starting point of the Crown case

is what the Advocate Depute characterised

as the admission evidence featuring in the 999 call,

which the Advocate Depute described,

is a remarkably accurate account of events.

The Advocate Depute also referred you

to the hot tub video

and to further comments made by the accused

to police witnesses.

The Advocate Depute submitted that

corroboration for this evidence

could be and was located in the evidence Doctor Ainsworth

the on the sites, and number of injuries,

the force required to inflict them,

and the issue of self-infliction.

Mr. Patterson advanced the following submissions.

Doctor Ainsworth's testimony did not go to that point

of suggesting that self-infliction

was utterly impossible or could not have happened,

and you may be left wondering, Mr. Patterson observed,

where Doctor Ainsworth's opinion takes you as a jury.

When you look at the evidence

and the support for Mr. Pearson's account,

in particular in the messages,

you may come to the view

that the Crown has failed to prove

that Mr. Pearson is guilty of murder.

You are the judges of the facts

and you decide what's been proved and what hasn't.

It's all a matter for you.

[music intensifies]

- Whenever a jury goes out to consider their verdict,

I can't second guess what that verdict will be.

And it's very nerve wracking.

- I'm wondering,

have the Crown done enough here?

- Some juries can be quick, some can be slow.

Some can take five minutes,

some can take five hours or five days.

- You don't know what's going on in the jury deliberation room.

What are the arguments other people are making?

Did something stick out to them that didn't stick out to me?

[tense music]

- Mr. Pearson has explained his position,

so it's over to the jury to decide

whether or not the Crown has proved the case

beyond a reasonable doubt, which is a very high standard.

A very high standard.

[Clerk] In the High Court of Justiciary,

in Court number 1, this is a verdict.

- Of the seven original charges, only two remain.

Charge two is a charge of domestic abuse

over a prolonged period of time.

And charge number four, of course.

Murder.

suspenseful music]

- I hope that having done my job properly,

I've given them sufficient evidence that they can rely on.

But the jury verdict is a jury verdict.

[suspenseful music continues]

- Court!

- Good afternoon. Thank you.

- Members of the jury, will your spokesperson please stand up?

Thank you.

Have you reached your verdict?

- Yes.

- What is your verdict in respect of Aren Bylot Pearson

on charge two on the indictment?

[Juror] Guilty.

- Is that a unanimous or a majority decision?

[Juror] Unanimous.

- What is your verdict in respect of Aren Bylot Pearson

on charge four on the indictment?

[Juror] Guilty.

- Is that a unanimous or a majority decision?

- Unanimous.

- Members of the jury, thank you for your attention.

[sombre music]

- I had no doubt in my mind

there was going to be anybody on his side.

And of course he did it.

There is no defence.

- Aren Bylot Pearson,

you have today on the unanimous verdict of the jury,

been convicted of a crime of exceptional depravity,

namely the murder of Miss Claire Leveque.

Your own evidence was, in my view,

an exercise from start to finish in victim blaming.

This malicious, vindictive and wholly fabricated account

suggests, certainly to me,

that you have sought to continue to humiliate your victim

after her death, even in this courtroom,

in the presence of her grieving family.

[eerie music]

[Jenny] ‘You stole my little girl.

My best friend. My life.’

[Woman] Is Claire going home?

[Jenny] ‘I will not get to hug my daughter again,

to see her smile or hear her laugh.’

[Woman] Here’s Claire and her daddy.

[Jenny] ‘You stole the children she would’ve had.

I will never get to be a grandpa to her babies.

You stole my life.

I am not happy like I once was.

In fact, I feel guilty when I feel any happiness.

Her light is gone.

You stole Claire's light.

I am not a hateful man.

However, I hate you.’

[Clint] Absolutely.

[Jenny] ‘I hate that you get to wake up each day

and she will not.

I hate that you live.

And she does not.

You stole my little girl.

And yet you get to live.

How is that fair?’

- That's correct.

- Miss Leveque died a squalid death of quite unimaginable,

multifaceted violence.

This was a sustained episode of feral butchery.

Aren Pearson, stand up.

On charge two you will serve a sentence of imprisonment

of two years,

on charge four I now pass upon you, on a concurrent basis,

a sentence of imprisonment for life.

I fix the punishment part of this disposal

at a period of 25 years.

That is all.

[gentle music]

- As he said 25 years,

I watched him tense like a ball,

and I just thought, 'Good. Good.’

He deserves it. He had no mercy.

He deserves none.

And that's how I feel.

[gentle music continues]

- I express my thanks to counsel.

[Margaret] Thank you, My Lord.

[Iain] Thank you, My Lord.

- Court!

- I've known a few people who are murderers.

Aren Pearson is the most cold-blooded murderer

I have ever come across.

- There is no chance of forgiveness.

There's... these people don't belong in society.

There's no fixing this type.

- It was important for me to find Clint and Jenny

to see how they were.

It's clearly an emotional time for them.

And it was also a very emotional meeting.

- I give her a hug because she did such a good job.

She was good.

- She was our voice.

She was our fight.

- I can't imagine what it was like for Clint and Jenny

and Claire's family to sit through the evidence.

It was harrowing at times.

It was graphic at times.

but they showed remarkable strength and dignity

in sitting through that evidence.

[gentle music continues]

- Today we were able to get justice for Claire,

and hopefully start a new path

in helping other victims suffering from domestic violence

and being able to move forward and come forward.

Claire was so isolated in Shetland,

but she was such a phenomenal person

and I miss her terribly.

[gentle music continues]

- Ah, there's... there’s a, I don’t know, woodpecker, look.

Claire and I like, uh, we'd meet up after work.

She was always up for a good walk.

All these trails have memories of our conversations.

- Claire was out in Shetland, all alone.

And so far away from everybody who loved and cared about her.

But I didn't think I was going to get a call

saying she was killed.

- Although I don't see her on those trails anymore,

I feel her presence.

It's a tough couple of weeks.

I miss her so much.

I miss her so much.

[gentle music continues]

[waves lapping]

[ethereal music]

[Jenny] We were able to go and

spend some time on the beach that she loved.

Where she was walking the dogs.

- It's nice to actually see it, like be here, I feel closer.

[Jenny] And we were lucky enough

to be able to bring back some stones.

It's not much, but just to have something

from a place that she loved.

- I remember my sister Claire as a bright and bold,

really a one-of-a-kind soul.

I want her to be remembered

for the beautiful girl that she was.

She'll forever be in my heart.

- May, Hope, William.

[Jenny chuckles]

Rocks for them.

- My daughter was...

being abused.

And now I see it.

Every day I miss her.

Every day.

[ethereal music continues]

[music continues]