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-On December the 1st, 1996,

Tracie Andrews and her fiancé, Lee Harvey,

were driving home after a night out,

when suddenly, they began to be pursued by another car.

It was a chase that would end in Lee's murder.

-He was stabbed in the throat, back, front

repeatedly, viciously, and continuously.

-Just two days later, 27-year-old Tracie

gave a heart-wrenching press conference,

appealing for the public's help to find her partner's killer.

But all was not what it seemed.

-When you get behind the wheel of a car,

sometimes you change personality.

-And we all kind of looked at each other and thought,

"You know, this enormous story just got 10 times bigger again

if she is the killer."

-There had been no car chase.

There had been no random attack.

Tracie Andrews had stabbed her own fiancé to death

and was trying to get away with murder.

-This is a woman of cunning,

of deceit,

and with a vicious temper.

-Tracie Andrews had deceived a nation

and become one of the world's most evil killers.

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It was a press conference that shocked Britain,

when 27-year-old Tracie Andrews

defiantly appeared in front of the world's media

on December the 3rd, 1996.

She wept over the murder of her fiancé, Lee Harvey.

She claimed a stranger had stopped the couple in their car

before stabbing her 25-year-old partner to death

in a savage attack.

-I just tried to stop the bleeding, really,

and comfort him as much as I could.

-But it was all a lie.

In reality, Andrews had killed Lee

in the most brutal of manners.

At her trial, Andrews continued

to try and sell her fabricated story.

The media were fascinated by her.

Daily Mirrorjournalist Rod Chaytor

managed to interview the wannabe model

at Birmingham Crown Court on the day of her conviction.

-I'm sat next to Tracie.

I didn't feel threatened, obviously.

She's a killer, but we're not in any kind of environment

in which she's likely to suddenly launch an attack on me.

So I said, "Well, you know, do you stick to your story?"

"Yes, I stick to my story."

"Did you kill him?" "No. I didn't."

-Just minutes later,

Tracie Andrews was given a life sentence

for the murder of her own fiancé.

-I worked as a national newspaper journalist

for many years.

I covered thousands of stories, dozens of murders.

Some stories just stay with you,

and this is one of the ones that stays with me.

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-It's a story that begins over 45 years ago.

Tracie Andrews was born on the 9th of April, 1969,

in the West Midlands.

-Well, Tracie was brought up just outside Birmingham

in Redditch and Alvechurch,

and she was the middle child.

She had an older sibling and a younger sibling

and several half siblings.

And her parents broke up when she was around about 6 years old

because they'd had quite a volatile relationship.

-The separation of her parents in 1975

had a lasting effect on young Tracie.

-Well, Tracie's parents split up,

and her mother got married to another man.

And when we look at our parents' relationships,

they are quite important, because they inform

our expectations of other people,

our expectations of the relationships

that we go on to have.

-Kids need attention, you know?

They need to be loved and cuddled and everything,

and a lot of kids that come from those kinds of broken homes,

and the case of Tracie,

they want to be loved by mother, father, or somebody.

So that is definitely, in my opinion,

one of the things that pushed her

into always wanting the attention of other men.

-Tracie left school in 1986,

and age 21, she had a baby daughter.

But the relationship with her partner lasted barely a year,

and they soon went their separate ways.

-What we've got here is a woman who doesn't like

her partners having a life that doesn't involve her.

She doesn't like her partners going out without her.

She gets very jealous. She's very possessive.

-She certainly had a temper.

Everybody who knew her said she had a temper,

and when she lost her temper, everybody knew about it.

She would shout at the top of her voice.

The whole street would hear.

-By 1994, 25-year-old Tracie

was living in a council flat in Alvechurch

and working as a barmaid.

But her aspirations went far beyond pouring pints.

-She had visions.

She had dreams of becoming a model,

and, you know, she was very photogenic.

She looked good on camera, and she knew it.

And she had some pictures taken

and a photo album put together,

but that never really took off, either.

-Well, she became a barmaid working in a pub,

but she still dress provocatively,

and she still loved talking to men and chatting to men,

again, seeking the attention

that she wanted to get as a model,

'cause, obviously, when you're that pretty and you're a model,

you do get a lot of attention.

-Living nearby to Tracie was 23-year-old Lee Harvey.

He also had a daughter from a previous relationship.

-Lee Harvey was a young man from a very close family,

and he worked as a bus driver for the West Midlands Travel.

So this was a job that involved, you know,

meeting many people on a daily basis.

He was very outgoing.

He was interested in cars and was always very well turned out,

so he was your typical young Birmingham lad, essentially.

Very close to his mum, very close to his sister.

-The paths of the two young, single parents would soon cross.

-Well, Lee and Tracie met in October 1994,

in Ritzy's nightclub in Birmingham,

and this relationship really did develop at a lightning pace.

They had moved in with one another

only around three months into the relationship.

So this was going very, very fast,

and their relationship was quite a volatile one.

They were both quite possessive, quite jealous

when it came to the other's relationships

with the opposite sex. You often find this

in relationships that develop very quickly.

You haven't got that foundation of trust that's been built.

You're always a little bit kind of suspicious

as to what the other person's up to

'cause you don't really know them.

-And they would row,

and they would fight like cat and dog,

and neighbors would report how voices would be raised

at all hours of the day and night

and would go on and on for hours

and then stop and then start again.

-The couple got engaged after just six months.

But their volatile relationship would often see them break up,

only to get back together again soon after.

-It was maybe almost a carbon copy

of what Tracie grew up with in her house.

She had a very explosive temper,

and Lee Harvey also, in a way,

wouldn't, like, just bow down to her screaming,

so he would scream back.

-She was forever throwing him out into the street,

and she would throw his clothes out of the window

or in a black bin bag and chuck him out the front door,

change the locks.

And then they would have reconciliations.

Lee would go back.

More violence, Lee would leave.

Lee would go back, more violence.

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This went on for a period of about two years.

-Their explosive relationship finally came to a head

on December the 1st, 1996.

-So, they'd been rowing all day.

Lee tended to be the peacemaker,

and it was probably Lee's suggestion --

"Why don't we go for a drink? Why don't we just get

a change of scene, a breath of fresh air?

Let's get out of here. Let's just go and, you know, relax

and have a drink," and that's what they did.

-But Lee Harvey would never make it home again.

By 11:00 p.m., he would be dead.

The only witness to the fatal altercation was his fiancée,

Tracie Andrews, and her version of events would soon make it

one of the most talked-about murders of the decade.

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On December the 1st, 1996, 27-year-old Tracie Andrews

and her 25-year-old fiancé, Lee Harvey,

were at a pub in Bromsgrove in the West Midlands.

After arguing all day,

the couple were trying to patch things up.

But their night was about to turn deadly.

-Tracie claimed that, after they'd left the pub

and that Lee was driving, that they'd become involved

in a road-rage incident essentially,

that a man in a dark Ford Sierra --

There'd been some kind of altercation,

and he'd started following them.

-And she's suddenly aware that this car is behind,

lights flashing, right on their tail.

Lee starts to accelerate.

They're snaking together through the lanes.

The other car then effectively draws Lee to a halt.

-Tracie later told detectives

that the man following the couple along rural Coopers Hill

got out of his car, and Lee did the same.

A confrontation was inevitable.

-The driver then has said what he wants to say, apparently.

He gets back in the car.

Lee is still outside of his car.

And then the passenger gets out,

a fat man with staring eyes,

and he goes up to Lee and attacks Lee

in a way that Tracie doesn't quite see.

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Then she piles in, she says, to go to Lee's defense,

because she says she's not the kind of girl

to just sit there and see her man being attacked,

at which point she gets smacked by the fat man in the eyes

and repeatedly gets up and is knocked down.

And then she says, "It all gets a bit hazy from that point,"

and then she kind of comes to almost,

and Lee is there,

and he's covered in blood, and she's cradling him,

and it all goes very vague.

-Lee's car had ended up

right outside a house called Keepers Cottage.

The commotion in the road

had alerted one of the residents.

-The guy made his way down the little path to the road

and there sees,

in poor light, just shown by the security light,

but there's a woman standing there with her back to the car.

There's a body, prone body on the floor.

He instantly runs back into the house saying,

"Call the police. Call the police. Call the ambulance."

-The case was immediately given

to Detective Superintendent Ian Johnston.

-I received a call from West Mercia Constabulary

Operations Room,

which directed me to the scene at Coopers Hill

where I met with divisional representatives.

Present at that time was Lee's car, Lee's body,

and Tracie Andrews was inside Keepers Cottage,

having been found in the road outside.

I could see Lee's vehicle.

It was pulled in on the near side of the road,

traveling towards Alvechurch,

and it didn't appear to have been stopped in any great hurry.

It looked as though it had been fairly neatly parked

to the side.

-Detectives at the scene spoke to Tracie

to find out exactly what had happened.

-The incident appeared to have started

from the Marlbrook Public House.

There'd been a road situation down the A38

towards the N42 motorway.

Lee's car had been stopped,

and then an altercation had taken place

between a member of that chasing vehicle and Lee.

Lee collapsed,

and then the other vehicle made its escape.

-Lee Harvey died at the scene.

It was clear that he'd been the victim

of a savage and frenzied attack.

-This is a severe, sustained,

brutal attack with a penknife.

Now, the estimates of how many wounds Lee suffered vary.

Some local reports said 42.

What is clear -- He was stabbed in the throat,

back, front,

repeatedly, viciously, and continuously.

-To produce 42 stab wounds, it's a sustained assault.

It's 42 movements of your hand.

This is not something that you can do in a second

or two seconds in a moment of madness.

You have to keep going, and it is not easy.

In Lee Harvey's case, the fatal stab wound

was a stab wound to the carotid artery.

That is a large artery in the neck.

And a stab wound to an artery of that size

is going to cause very rapid, very heavy bleeding.

Without prompt medical attention,

it's most likely to be a fatal injury.

-With an initial statement taken,

a bruised and bloodied Tracie Andrews

was whisked away in an ambulance.

-And she's treated for those injuries

and for shock in hospital

and cared for and tended for

while police launch a massive murder hunt

for whoever has done this terrible thing to Lee.

-Tracie had told us that the following vehicle,

which had followed them from the Marlbrook,

was a dark-colored Ford Sierra, F-registered.

And obviously, we started a vehicle inquiry with the DVLA

for the owner details

of any vehicle that might fit that description.

-As reports of the apparent road-rage murder

reached news desks across the country,

journalists immediately headed to the West Midlands.

-From the very first moment, it was clear

that this was going to be a huge story, an absolutely huge story.

Just the idea of a road-rage murder

made it already a big story.

And as the first morning progressed,

everything we discovered made it a bigger story.

Photographs began to emerge of Tracie.

She looked an attractive young woman.

Photographs began to emerge of Lee, the victim --

handsome young man.

And so more and more

of the elements that make a big story --

young, attractive,

bizarre, unimaginable circumstances --

all started slotting into place.

-Detectives knew that the best way to try

and find the killer was to make an appeal through the media.

A press conference was arranged for Tuesday, December the 3rd,

two days after the fatal attack.

-I met Tracie somewhere 'round about 10:00 a.m., I believe,

just before we were going to do the press conference.

I asked her if she was content to do the press conference,

if it was something that she wanted to do.

She said that she was.

She said she really wanted to do it.

-This hugely hiked up the media interest,

because we were going to have put in front of us,

it was said, thekey witness

and someone -- We'd all seen the pictures by this time,

an attractive blond, and she was going to sit there

in front of us and answer our questions.

There was massive media interest in this.

-As the press conference began, all the focus

was on 27-year-old Tracie.

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-The noise of the cameras,

the motor drives going off as Tracie walked in the room,

was absolutely deafening.

And appearing in front of us --

I don't think we'd all thought what would appear, really,

but we'd all seen these glamorous shots.

Here was a woman, red-eyed,

haggard, completely unmade up,

two black eyes, cut on her nose.

-And Tracie did look like a victim.

She had the injuries to her face.

She looked incredibly distressed and incredibly upset.

-But Tracie seemed very comfortable

when faced with all the camera flashes

and questions from the journalists.

-The press really wanted to hear from Tracie,

and so, you know,

I became a bit of a sideline really, which was fine.

You know, it was about the story.

It was about the situation.

And the press were interested in Tracie,

and she was quite happy to deal with the press.

-Both Lee and the other person were...

like, playing cat and mouse with each other for a while.

When they overtook us,

I was shouting at Lee to, you know, "Slow down.

Just ignore them. Stop the car," but he --

I don't know. I don't know if a lot of men are like it,

and a lot of women like it,

but when you get behind the wheel of a car,

You know, sometimes, you change personality.

-During the press conference

when talking about the alleged killer,

there was a moment when, suddenly,

her eyes came up.

And she was mostly downcast throughout the press conference,

but her eyes came up, and they flashed fiercely.

And her mouth dropped open a bit

with that famous slightly jutting jaw,

and she looked really angry.

And at that point, again, all the motor drives went off.

Every press photographer reacted to that.

It was a crash of noise as every camera was hit.

-It was just the way he looked, his eyes.

He had staring eyes.

He just didn't seem normal.

I saw the man hit Lee.

I don't know what with.

I didn't see anything.

-And suddenly she starts appealing

to the driver of the car,

saying, "You're not in any trouble.

You know, come forward and tell the police what it's all about."

-And whoever this person is that was with you,

you obviously know him,

but he's ruined my life.

Please just tell us who he is.

You won't get in any trouble at all.

It was not your fault.

-And I'm thinking, "Well, that's not strictly true, is it?

You've driven your friend to a murder scene.

He's killed someone, and you've driven him away,

so you arein trouble," but...okay.

-And as the questioning progressed,

Tracie seemed to contradict her original statement.

-I said, "Tracie, sorry,

but I clearly understood the police to say

that it was about 10 past10:00 when you left the pub."

And she kind of looked at me,

sort of head down under her lashes,

and said, "No. It was 10 to10."

And sat on her left

was Superintendent Johnston.

And I just saw him react

to that answer from Tracie.

And very slowly, his head turned to the right,

and he just looked at her in a kind of assessing way,

a kind of appraising way.

And at that moment, I thought,

"Wow. There's something going on here."

-I just tried to stop the bleeding, really,

and comfort him as much as I could.

-The inconsistency in Tracie's story

surprised a majority of reporters in the room.

-The press conference finished,

and the national newspaper journalists scattered outside

in a bit of a pack, as we would tend to do,

or friends or know each other, work against each other.

And somebody said, "What do you think?"

And I said, "I think she did it."

And we all kind of looked at each other and thought,

"You know, this enormous story just got 10 times bigger again

if she is the killer."

-Was it really conceivable

that Tracie Andrews had been lying all along?

As the investigation continued, new evidence suggested

that maybe there was no road-rage incident at all.

Andrews would go from the only witness

to the number-one suspect in the murder of Lee Harvey.

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On December the 3rd, 1996, 27-year-old Tracie Andrews

appeared at an emotionally charged press conference

in an appeal to find the passenger of a Ford Sierra

who she claimed had stabbed her fiancé,

Lee Harvey, to death.

But unbeknownst to Andrews,

the police were beginning to work out the truth --

that shehad been the one responsible

for the murder of 25-year-old Lee.

-It's self-preservation.

That's what's driving her behavior at this point in time.

She's got absolutely no empathy whatsoever for Lee

or for Lee's family or indeed for her own family,

who were also going to be really badly affected by this.

So she's thinking, "How do I best preserve myself?

I'm going to take that role of the victim,

and I'm going to put myself in it."

-Andrews claim that she and Lee had been the victim

of a road-rage incident didn't seem to add up.

A witness statement from a child

staying in a house on Coopers Hill

put her version of events in doubt.

-It was December.

The windows were closed,

but she could clearly hear a row going on.

What she remembered was that

one was a distinctly male, baritone voice.

The other voice was much softer,

and she said it was

much more like a woman's voice.

-Forensic searches of the road had discovered more clues

into what really happened.

-We couldn't get anywhere near the scene

on the first morning or indeed for a few days afterwards.

The police completely sealed it off.

They drafted in officers

to carry out a fingertip search of the area.

What they found, we later discovered,

were a couple of bits and pieces,

including a tiny spring and another element

from a multifunction penknife.

What police didn't find was any trace

of a car overtaking another car

on the soft December winter verges

of this pretty narrow road.

-Police had also found a black beanie hat in the hedgerow

next to where Lee's car had been parked.

-So our assumption was,

"Well, this has maybe fallen out of the assailant's pocket,

and he's not realized it."

So, of course, that went to the laboratory

fairly quickly with a view towards DNA

and from hair samples, that sort of thing.

And we had the report back by the Wednesday

that this was animal hair,

and it was cat hair, black-and-white cat hair.

Well, there's a black-and-white cat at Tracie's.

And so we went down and took a sample of hair from the cat,

and it was the cat hair.

And then, as I understand it later on,

it was accepted that this was Lee's hat

that had been in Tracie's pocket

prior to the events taken place.

-Andrews' lie about the hat

was just one of many inconsistencies in her story.

-In Lee's hand, they found

between 80 and 100 strands of Tracie's hair

that have been pulled from Tracie's head

as Lee has tried to defend himself.

Now, if Lee had been murdered by this fat man with staring eyes,

why would he have Tracie's hair in his hand?

-Well, the pathologist's evidence was that

this was more than just a death-grasp stroking,

that it was a reasonable clump that did have a good pull.

But, of course, Tracie's view was,

"Well, this must have been when he was going,

and he got his hand in my hair, you know?"

So it came as a sort of -- As Lee was passing away,

he pulled some hair from her head.

-It was beginning to look more and more likely

that Andrews had killed Lee in a fit of rage.

-I mean, if you attack somebody

that you're supposed to be in love with

and stab them 42 times,

then that's pretty out of control.

-She wasn't thinking to herself

as she set off from the pub that evening,

"Oh, tonight's the night I think I'm going to kill Lee."

She just exploded like a volcano.

Over a matter of minutes, literally,

she went from mildly angry to obsessively angry,

and that, therefore, he had to die.

-When we talk about premeditated murder,

we tend to assume that it's something that's days,

weeks, or months in the planning,

but actually, premeditation only takes seconds.

You only need to have a few seconds to decide

that you are going to end somebody's life,

and she made that decision on this evening.

-And it seemed that Andrews' guilty conscience

was beginning to get the better of her.

On Wednesday, December the 4th,

the day after the telltale press conference,

she tried to kill herself.

-Tracie takes an overdose.

And I think this is a very deliberate,

a very determined act on her part.

I think she was absolutely set on ending her own life,

because, over the past few days,

the situation has spiraled completely out of her control.

She's trying to keep the story together.

She's trying to present this face as the victim,

and it's all getting a bit too much,

'cause it's starting to unravel.

So I think this is an attempt to take back control, to say,

"Actually, I'm going to decide to do something now

that I'm fully in control of," and that's what this was.

-On the same evening,

detectives were given their biggest steer yet.

Two people had seen Lee's distinctive white Ford Escort

on the night of his murder.

-Two witnesses who said,

"We've seen it in the local paper.

I know I've seen this white car.

We were driving from Alvechurch in the opposite direction.

We came through Coopers Hill past Keepers Cottage.

We came down the hill,

and as we came to the junction at the bottom,

I saw this car go past."

And he said, "It's a white Escort, G-reg,

spoked wheels," everything that it was,

and he said that, you know,

there is no doubt that was the car.

He said, "And from that point to when we got into Bromsgrove,

we saw no car that fits any description

of what you've been told,

and there certainly wasn't any car chasing that car

in the vicinity of Coopers Hill."

So we'd got the confirmation that we were looking for,

that the road-rage incident had not occurred,

and so that changed the way that we looked at the investigation.

-Her story really was starting to crumble

at that point in time,

and combined with her suicide attempt,

I think the police decided, "That's enough evidence.

We can now move in and arrest her."

-On Saturday, December the 7th, 1996,

six days after Lee's murder,

Tracie Andrews was arrested in hospital

and taken into custody.

-The 27-year-old woman was arrested at 11:00 today,

but so far, detectives have released no further details.

Until this development,

the police had been looking for two men

who they believed may have escaped from the scene

in a dark Ford Sierra.

-The evidence from the two witnesses

who'd seen Lee Harvey's vehicle

through the junction that night was extremely impactive.

And realistically,

without a following vehicle,

without a dark-colored Ford Sierra chasing that car,

then the whole being of that explanation from Tracie

just didn't stand up.

-Further evidence pointed towards Andrews being the killer

after the clothes she was wearing

on the night of the murder were forensically tested.

-The forensic scientist

who had examined one of Tracie's zip-up boots --

She had a pair of ankle boots on.

And within that, he'd found a mark in the leather

which had a rounded top on it

and seemed to bear all the impression

of the outside shape of the knife.

And that's the hypothesis --

that she carried the knife away from the scene in her boot

and that, as soon as she got to the hospital,

she was able to dispose of it.

-She could've easily just, like,

thrown the knife into the grass or into the forest,

whatever it was, and hoped the police wouldn't find it.

But she even thought, "No. These guys are going to bring dogs.

They're going to search the whole area.

They will probably find something."

-Tracie Andrews was officially charged

with the murder of Lee Harvey

on December the 19th, 1996.

Her trial was set for July,

and she was going to plead not guilty.

Andrews was sticking to her story.

The prosecution would have to prove that she was a liar,

or she could walk away free.

♪♪

On July the 1st, 1997, the trial of Tracie Andrews

began at Birmingham Crown Court.

The 28-year-old was pleading not guilty

to the murder of her fiancé, Lee Harvey,

exactly seven months earlier.

The media attention surrounding Andrews

and the trial was huge.

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-I was at the trial every day at Birmingham Crown Court.

It was compelling, unmissable,

and was being widely reported in all the media every day

and every evening on the TV news bulletins.

-The prosecution team, led by David Crigman,

were confident that they had a strong case against Andrews.

As well as the two witness statements

that contradicted her road-rage story,

the blood-pattern analysis of her orange jumper was key.

-She was covered in blood,

which she claimed had come onto her clothing

when she was comforting him as he died,

as she held him in the road.

But a lot of this blood was sprayed blood.

It was arterial blood

that had come out of the carotid in a fountain

and sprayed like a waterfall

down the front of her clothing.

-In a lot of cases of stabbing,

particularly to the chest or the abdomen,

a lot of the bleeding is internal,

because the large organs and blood vessels

are deep within the body.

The carotid artery is very close to the surface,

so if it's breached,

it will spray blood under pressure from the heart

out of that wound, out into the air,

and it will land on things next to it --

in particular, in this case, Tracie Andrews, the assailant.

-The evidence may have appeared to be compelling,

but Andrews herself had already proved

to be extremely convincing

when under intense scrutiny.

-I thought she'd done it. I thought she was the killer.

But bearing in mind how she'd handled the press conference

a couple of days after the murder,

I thought that she stood a good chance of getting away with it.

But as ever, as is always the case,

everything would hinge on the cross-examination

of Tracie in the witness box

should she choose to give evidence

once the defense began.

-On Monday, July the 14th,

Tracie Andrews took the stand to give her testimony.

-There was genuine apprehension in the prosecution camp

that a jury may be persuaded by not only the story

but the skill, I would say, the skill with which

she was able to advance what she had to say.

-Tracie stood in the witness box now,

having moved from the dock, and gave her account,

which largely followed the account

that she'd been giving to the police all along

through her statements --

the road-rage story, the chase through the lanes,

and the stabbing and the road-rage attack.

And she gave it calmly

and, in some senses, convincingly.

-Prosecutors knew that the cross-examination of Andrews

would be their best chance

at cracking her veneer of lies.

-And it went on and on and on.

It went on for hours.

It not only took the whole of that afternoon,

it took the whole of the next day and into a third day.

And in that time,

the highly intellectual David Crigman

just took her story apart.

He just deconstructed it around her.

She was left there effectively naked

in the middle of her story in shreds on the floor.

-I came to the view

that the only way you could dissect her story

was piece by little piece

by little piece, detail by detail.

It was the accumulation of a large number of details

where she could shown not to be telling the truth

that could break her down.

It was only within the finest of detail,

as one mounted on top of the next,

that you began to see the story as a pack of lies.

-And she was reduced to standing there saying,

"I don't know. I can't remember.

I don't know. I can't remember."

And at every point,

her credibility diminished.

And at that point, I thought,

"Okay. I think she's going to get found guilty."

-On July the 29th in an unprecedented move,

Andrews agreed to be interviewed by a newspaper journalist

as the jury retired to make a decision on her fate.

She met with Rod Chaytor in a private room at the court.

-And there was Tracie, sat there, made up,

composed, sat at a table, her lawyers.

And I sat down, and I interviewed her.

It was absolutely bizarre.

Never in 35 years on Fleet Street,

never did it before, never did it again,

interview the accused while the jury's out.

Extraordinary.

So, I started to ask her questions.

-Rod had to work fast to get all the information he could.

-The basic message that she was giving was,

"I didn't do it, I'm innocent,

and I'll love him till the day I die."

And that was the message

from the exclusive Mirrorinterview that I did.

And I'd been there about 20 minutes

and was just beginning to come to the end of the story,

just beginning to kind of think, "Okay.

Well, what's the next question?"

and the Tannoy went.

And the Tannoy went, "All parties to Court Nine.

All parties to Court Nine."

You just felt, "Wow.

The jury are back. There's a verdict."

-Rod headed back to his seat in the press box.

-We kind of went our separate ways

and ended up a few feet from each other in court.

And the judge came in. Everyone stood up.

The foreman of the jury, "Will you please stand?

Do you have a verdict on which you are all agreed?"

"Yes, we do." "What is that verdict?"

"Guilty."

-Despite the strain that Tracie Andrews must have felt

during four weeks in the dock, she didn't even flinch

as the jury foreman told her that she was guilty.

Even though she kept her head bowed,

her face remained impassive even as the judge said to her,

"Only you know precisely what happened that night,

but we all saw the awful consequences."

He said he had no option but to send her to prison for life.

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-She showed almost no emotion.

She shook her head once,

like that, just as in, "No,"

or, "I don't agree," whatever, but that was the only reaction.

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And she was then led down the steps from the dock

into the cell area below.

She saw her family briefly before she was taken away.

They were allowed brief access to her.

At that point, she did break down in tears.

At that time, she was completely tearful

and terrified about what was going to happen to her

and what awaited her in prison from other inmates.

In public, she had maintained

her composure to the last, really.

In private, she was terrified.

-On the 29th of July, 1997,

Judge Mr. Justice Broccoli sentenced Tracie Andrews

to life in prison for the murder of Lee Harvey.

She was ordered to serve a minimum of 14 years.

-Well, when we ask the question,

"Why do we think Tracie Andrews stabbed Lee Harvey?"

it was because she felt that Lee was hers.

He was her possession.

This wasn't a relationship that was about love.

It was a relationship that was about control and ownership.

And in ending somebody's life,

you are completely possessing them,

and that was what was going on on that evening

when she chose to take Lee's life.

-In April 1999, Andrews finally admitted

that her story about a mysterious road-rage killer

had been completely made up.

-21 months after her conviction

in a letter to her solicitor,

Tracie Andrews confessed for the first time

that she had indeed killed Lee Harvey

but that it was entirely in self-defense.

Now, how she could maintain that

given that he had stab wounds in his back

and he was bigger than she was,

I find that very difficult to believe.

But nevertheless, that's what she insisted.

-Tracie Andrews had gone from a wannabe model

to a model prisoner.

In July 2011, after serving her 14 years,

she was released back into society

and ordered not to go within 25 miles

of Lee Harvey's family.

-I think it is absolutely possible

for Tracie Andrews to live a normal life.

I think if she's come to terms with her offense,

if she's addressed those underlying behavioral traits

and characteristics,

if she's prepared to just keep her head down

and get on with her life, then, yes, very much, she can do that.

And I think she should appreciate the fact

that she's able to do that,

because murder casts a long shadow,

and there are many people

who have been affected by this crime,

who continue to be affected by it.

But she has the opportunity now

to ensure that she doesn't cause any more harm to people

and that she can make a contribution to society.

-It's been over 20 years

since Tracie Andrews took away the life of her fiancé

in a brutal and vicious attack.

It remains one of the most infamous murders

of the 1990s.

-Violence on this occasion was not the first occasion

she had used violence.

This is a woman of cunning,

of deceit,

and with a vicious temper.

-It's often described as a crime of passion,

and I tend not to use that term,

because I think what we're implying there

is that she wasn't in control of her actions.

She didn't know what she was doing.

This rage came over her, and she couldn't help herself.

I think she knew exactly what she was doing.

When you stab somebody 42 times,

you are deciding to continue doing this.

Your arm is going to be tired.

There are going to be opportunities for you to stop,

and you decide to keep going.

-That is prolonged ferocity.

That's going on and on and on and on.

That's not a momentary flash of anger.

That's uncontrollable rage

lasting a significant period of time.

It's a shocking, shocking thought,

and the fact that a woman has done it

makes it twice as shocking.

-Tracie Andrews' case

will always remain in the public psyche

due to her persistent lying, first to the police,

then the world's media, and finally in a court of law.

But although she'll forever be remembered

for her crocodile tears,

it should never be forgotten that she killed Lee Harvey

in a horrific and frenzied attack

without a shred of remorse,

which undoubtedly makes her

one of the world's most evil killers.

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