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Steve Sanderson was behind the wheel of his taxi on the way to the center of Hartlepool. Saturday nights were always busy, party goers were already heading towards the pubs and clubs to enjoy an evening out.
As Steve drove his taxi down Grange Road, he spotted something unusual, a pair of legs sticking out from beneath a parked car.The street was empty, so he stopped his taxi in the middle of the road and rushed over to see if someone was hurt.
A young woman lay motionless on the ground curled up, her body halfway under a car.Steve asked her if she was okay, but she didn't answer.Motorists suddenly stuck behind Steve's taxi got out of their vehicles to see what was going on.
In a team effort, one person called for an ambulance while others rushed to get blankets or jumpers to help keep the injured woman warm. Welcome to season nine, episode 44 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK true crime.
Hartlepool is a port town in the northeast of England. One of the most notorious stories about the town dates back to the early 1800s, when the threat of war with Napoleon Bonaparte's French Empire loomed over the UK.
It's said that the people of Hartlepool were so afraid of French spies that they executed a monkey found in a military-style uniform aboard the wreckage of a French ship that washed ashore.
There's no way to know if the story is based on truth or fiction, but the legend persists.It was around 7.45pm on Saturday, October 18th, 1986.Dark clouds loomed over the town, and a cool wind was in the air.
It had been raining on and off for a few days, and temperatures were starting to drop. Steve Sanderson and other motorists stood helplessly beneath the streetlights while waiting for an ambulance.
The woman had clearly lost a lot of blood, and it was staining the ground, spreading out around her body.
The pensive silence was broken by the sound of approaching sirens, and a few seconds later, much to the relief of the people waiting, flashing lights lit up Grange Road.
From that point, it was mere seconds before the paramedics were kneeling by the injured woman.They quickly realized it was an urgent situation and she needed more help than they could provide at the scene.
Paramedics carefully carried her to the ambulance and rushed to Hartlepool General Hospital. The police arrived as the ambulance was pulling away.Officers started by talking to witnesses to learn more about what they had seen and heard.
During this time, a man approached them and asked what had happened.He explained that his fiancée hadn't arrived at his house as planned, and her parents said she had left home just over 300 yards away 15 minutes earlier.
31-year-old Malcolm Pearson said he had been expecting 23-year-old Janet Newton as they were due to spend the evening together.Given the short distance between the properties, he left his home hoping to meet her on the way.
Malcolm rushed as fast as he could to break the news to Janet's parents, John and Carol, and the three of them went to the hospital together. Half an hour later, their worlds collapsed when they were told that Janet hadn't survived.
She had passed away by the time she reached the hospital.Janet's loved ones initially believed that she had been struck by a car.However, they would come to learn that her injuries were not consistent with a hit and run.
Before the three of them had time to process what they were being told, police officers singled out Malcolm Pearson and he was arrested.Malcolm was taken directly to the station for questioning.Janet was the eldest daughter of John and Carol Newton.
She lived with her parents on Thornville Road in Hartlepool, and after finishing school at High Tunstall, she went on to the College of Further Education to undertake a shorthand and typing course.
Soon after, she got a steady job which she enjoyed at the Abbey National Building Society on York Road. describing her daughter Carol Newton said, she works so hard.She loved the building society and all the lasses there loved her.
She didn't have an enemy in the world.In May 1986, Janet and her friend were watching a rock band play at Hartlepool Town Hall when she met Malcolm Pearson.
Carol was in hospital at the time and remembered her daughter coming to visit her shortly after.Carol said, she told me that she and her friend had met two lovely lads and were going to see them again.
Then they started going out together and fell in love.It was fate.Malcolm was open and honest about his past relationships.He had been married before and had a young daughter.
Malcolm's past and the eight-year age gap caused Janet's parents some concern and they thought their daughter should proceed very slowly.
John and Carol advised Janet to wait until things had settled down in Malcolm's life before they took the next step in the relationship.Carol said, but she said she loved Malcolm so much and they were happy together.
Janet was a serious type of girl and she thought everything through. On Janet's 23rd birthday, October 16th 1986, Malcolm proposed, and Janet happily said yes.She loved him, and they couldn't wait to spend the rest of their lives together.
However, as sometimes happens in relationships, Malcolm's past came back to haunt him. Malcolm Pearson was questioned by investigators following his fiancée's death.He told them that Janet Newton came to his home almost every evening after work.
He was concerned because his ex-wife had made threats in the past.Before he met Janet Newton, Malcolm had been in a relationship with a woman named Maria Travers.
Maria had two children before meeting Malcolm, and together they had another child, a girl, in February 1985.They named her Rachel.
Instead of experiencing the bliss that comes with welcoming a new baby into the world, the relationship between Malcolm and Maria worsened.
In August 1985, Malcolm Pearson kicked in the back door of the property where Maria was staying and punched her in the head and body.Aside from bruising, Maria also suffered a broken finger during the vicious attack.
Malcolm Pearson handed himself in to the police a few days later. He explained that Maria had left their six-month-old baby alone outside a shop in the town, and he was furious that her negligence meant that Rachel had been taken into care.
A few days later in court, Malcolm's counsel said it was difficult to know how to deal with the couple, who were warring all the time. They had subsequently rekindled their relationship before Malcolm's court date, and Maria testified on his behalf.
Malcolm told the court that he did not want to say anything that would jeopardize their relationship, because they wanted to get their daughter back.
After four months, young Rachel was returned to her parents, and in February 1986, Malcolm and Maria were married at Hartlepool Registry Office. However, just one month later they separated, and the following month Rachel was again taken into care.
Malcolm moved out of the house they shared on Carlton Street, and moved in with his mother.
Maria tried desperately to win Malcolm back, supposedly for the sake of their daughter, but Malcolm didn't want anything to do with her, because as it turns out, she was already married.
When she was 21 years old, Maria married Samuel Travers on July 3, 1976.By 1978, she had two children and was in trouble with the law due to her husband's criminal activity as well as her own.
A year earlier, she had been convicted at Teesside Crown Court of assault causing actual bodily harm for an attack on a woman named Kimberley Hynde.
Samuel had not long been released from prison for non-payment of a fine when he began stealing from local shops and reselling the goods.He got his sister, parents and wife to hold on to the items for him.
In the latter half of 1978, 26-year-old Samuel Travers and his then 23-year-old wife Maria appeared in court. Samuel was charged with seven counts of theft, and Maria was charged with assisting in the retention of stolen goods.
She claimed that her husband had told her he had obtained the items through honest means, but she eventually realised he was lying.Maria had given a friend a jacket Samuel had stolen,
When the friend was caught trying to return the item of clothing to the store for a cash refund, the police were called and Maria was brought in for questioning.
Her counsel, Tim Parkin, said his client had crossed a line by allowing stolen goods into her home, but argued that Maria had a passive role for the most part.
Samuel Travers was sentenced to two years in prison, while Maria received a suspended sentence. Her counsel said that with support she was unlikely to re-offend.I could not have been further from the truth.
In the weeks that followed her breakup with Malcolm Pearson, Maria was involved in a number of violent incidents and accused of criminal damage when she smashed the windows of the home she had shared with Malcolm.
Malcolm told her to move out of the house on Carlton Street in May 1986, and that same month she was charged with bigamy as she had married Malcolm while still married to Samuel Travers.
Maria was also charged with deception for trying to cash bad checks.At the same time, Malcolm Pearson began a new relationship with Janet Newton, much to Maria's dismay.
One day after Malcolm started seeing Janet, he reported that Maria had attempted to set fire to his home on Carlton Street.He later said the ground floor had been gutted and the smoke had damaged all the furniture.
Furthermore, Janet's parents, John and Carol, began getting visits and threatening phone calls from Maria soon after.Carol said, she came here and said she was Malcolm Pearson's wife, but she didn't have a good word for him.
She said Janet was a lovely girl and was far too good for Malcolm.
After Maria claimed that Janet was standing in the way of her and Malcolm regaining custody of their daughter and was attempting to gain custody of the child, John assured Maria that he would speak to Janet.
He was sure she wouldn't want to interfere in someone's marriage.Speaking about Maria, John said, she said she would kill for her baby.
The Newtons also received letters from Maria, including one piece of correspondence that read, Malcolm has told half the town how easy she is.It must be difficult for her to get a boyfriend without sleeping with him.
She is so unattractive and so desperate to keep Malcolm.It's pathetic.In a letter to Malcolm, Maria wrote, She's just an ugly gold digger and knows an opportunity when she sees it.She'll be sorry.
In early September 1986, a warrant was issued for Maria's arrest for the bigamy criminal damage and deception charges.
Appeals for information on her whereabouts were published in local newspapers, and a few days later Maria presented herself at Hartlepool Police Station.
On September 10th she was brought to court, where she admitted committing bigamy by marrying Malcolm Pearson while she was still married to Samuel Travis.The hearing was adjourned for a social inquiry and psychiatric reports.
Maria was bailed on the condition that she lived with her mother and did not go near the Abbey National Building or contact a woman who was unnamed in press reports.
It's safe to assume the unnamed woman was Janet Newton, a clerk at the Abbey National Building.A few weeks later, Maria contacted Margaret O'Rourke, a journalist for the Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, and pleaded with her to let her tell her story.
She said, will you please let me talk to you, hear what I have to say and try to understand.
Margaret recalled how bewildered, sad and distressed Maria seemed to be as she spoke about her daughter Rachel and how lonely she had been since Rachel had been taken into care.
According to journalist Margaret O'Rourke, Maria came across as childlike and expressed how she felt as though she had been singled out for blame when all she wanted was justice.Maria said,
I don't think anyone can call me anything once they hear my side of the story."
Maria told Margaret that she hadn't slept much in the past few weeks and just wanted the proceedings to be over with so she had a chance of getting Rachel back and finding her own home.
That said, Maria was still regularly calling Janet's parents and being abusive. John Newton recalled Maria effing and blinding and added, she was saying she was still in love with Malcolm and Janet was standing in the way of a reconciliation.
She threatened if Janet didn't leave him alone she would be cut up.She said that more than once.It was hell for a while.Every Friday night the phone would ring and she'd be on the other end with her threats.
It got to the stage where we just took the phone off the hook.
On October 11th, a week before Janet Newton was found stabbed in the street, Maria turned up outside Malcolm's home on Carlton Street and begged him to fix their relationship for Rachel's sake.
Malcolm didn't want to listen to what she had to say and told her to find someone else and leave him, Janet and Rachel alone. Coincidentally, Janet arrived at Malcolm's while Maria was screaming at her former partner.
Janet walked inside without speaking.Maria shouted in after her, she's not going to have my baby.Malcolm told Maria to leave.As she was walking away down the garden path, Maria turned and said, she'll be sorry for this.
Janet's parents would eventually ask Malcolm to stop coming to their home because they thought his ex was following him.They said, Malcolm used to meet her at the top of the road when they went out, just in case.
Even then, we were frightened for Janet's safety.The calls continued, as did false reports of a fire at their home.And then suddenly, they stopped.
The Newtons thought Maria had finally moved on, and so Malcolm felt safe letting Janet walk to his home alone.Just one week after Maria told Malcolm that Janet Newton would be sorry, Janet was dead.
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Detective Chief Inspector Doug Smith was put in charge of the murder inquiry. Janet Newton had been killed within minutes of leaving her parents' home just two days after she got engaged.
At a press conference on October 20th, DCI Smith appealed for anyone who had been in the Grange Road area between 7.25 and 7.45 p.m.on October 18th.
There were no eyewitnesses to the attack, which the officer found surprising because, quote, Grange Road is a particularly busy thoroughfare, especially on a Saturday evening when people are going down to the town for a night out.
We would like to hear from anyone who may have seen what happened or can help with our inquiries.A preliminary post-mortem examination showed that Janet had been stabbed several times.
A team of 50 officers searched for the murder weapon as they began conducting house-to-house inquiries.DCI Smith said that the police were looking for Maria and added, Mrs. Pearson has come into our inquiries as have a number of other people.
We would like to speak to her.We have tried to find Mrs. Pearson but we haven't been able to trace her as yet.At this moment we have no immediate suspect. Malcolm Pearson's mother Hilda described how devastated her son was by his fiance's murder.
Hilda said, he started to make a statement to the police yesterday, but he couldn't finish it.He was so upset.He had to go back again today.After Malcolm met Janet, he told me that he had never been happier.
Malcolm later spoke to reporters himself and added, Janet's feelings were always for somebody else and not for herself.She would always put everybody else first, and she would never hurt anybody's feelings.
We were thinking about getting married before Christmas this year, but we hadn't made definite plans.Janet and I enjoyed being together.We never had a single wrong word from the moment I met her.
When asked about the woman the police were searching for, Halcombe said, her name is Maria Travers, not Maria Pearson.I am not married.I am a single man.
One day after the press conference, a student in college in Edinburgh walked into a police station and said that he had information relating to Janet Newton's murder.
Simon Fawcett said he had returned to visit his family in Hartlepool a few days earlier, and he bumped into an old girlfriend, Maria Travers, or Maria Pearson, as she was being referred to.
He picked her up in his car at around 7pm on October 18th, and she told him she wanted to speak to Malcolm Pearson and Janet Newton.
Simon drove to Janet's home, but Maria told him to move to a side street because she didn't want to be seen under the streetlights.Simon said, she pointed out the house 15 or 20 yards in front of us.
She said she expected the girl to come out at about 7.30.That's what she was waiting for.A young woman walked towards them and turned onto Milton Road. Maria told Simon it was Malcolm's girlfriend.
She then got out of the car and started following her out of sight.Five minutes later, Maria jogged back to the car, got in and instructed Simon to drive away.
As he pulled out of the side street, he noticed a taxi double parked on Grange Road and people standing around looking at something on the ground.
He glanced over at Maria in the back seat and saw that she was shaking and her clothes were bloodstained.She changed her shoes and pulled on her cardigan.
When Simon asked what had happened, Maria told him that she had confronted Janet and Janet had pulled out her penknife.According to Maria, they fought and she managed to get the blade from Janet and stabbed her in the face before running off.
She didn't wait around to see how Janet was, but later that evening, as Simon drove Maria to Sunderland, Maria called Hartlepool General Hospital and inquired about Janet.She hung up before learning more because it took them too long to find out.
Once Maria became a suspect, officers placed her home and the homes of known relatives and associates under surveillance.
It was reported that she had been at Cameron Maternity Hospital a week earlier for an ultrasound because she believed she was pregnant, but hospital representatives could not comment.
Investigators spoke with her aunt Sheila, who lived in Sunderland, and were told that Maria had only stayed for one night before leaving. Investigators also learned that Maria had a friend living in Oxford.
When they contacted them, they found out that Maria hadn't been there.However, just one hour later, Maria turned up unannounced.She didn't stay for long, and when she left, the friend called the police.
It was discovered that Maria had checked into a hotel and told staff that she was going out for something to eat. Thames Valley police officers were assigned to search the area.
They began checking all public transport routes out of Oxford, particularly those heading to London where Maria's brother Colin lived.On the last bus out of Oxford that night, Maria was finally located.
She was transported back to Hartlepool for questioning. The interview was conducted over an eight-hour period by Detective Sergeant Malcolm Grieve.
Maria claimed that she had no animosity towards Janet Newton and denied making threats to her over the phone, in letters or in person.She also said that she had never threatened to cut Janet up.
According to Maria, she felt sorry for Janet because she was being used by Malcolm. She even suggested that Malcolm had been the one who killed Janet.
Maria claimed that she had gone to the corner of Osborne Road at around 7.30pm on the night of the murder to meet Malcolm, because he allegedly told her that he was going to end things with Janet so they could get back together.
She told Detective Sergeant Greaves, Malcolm came running up, he was flustered, his nose was running, he had a sinus condition and when he was flustered his nose ran.
Maria said that Malcolm told her that he had ended his relationship with Janet, but he had to go because he was in a hurry.He allegedly added, just trust me, I'll see you later.
Maria claimed she was worried because Malcolm seemed off and she wasn't sure if she could trust him.
Following Maria's arrest, Detective Chief Inspector Doug Smith explained to the press that inquiries were still ongoing and the incident room remained open.
The search of the area has been completed, but we are continuing with house-to-house inquiries.
As a result of Simon Fawcett's information, the police began searching the area between the scene of Janet Newton's murder and the side street where Simon's car had been parked.
In a drain, they located a four-inch Bowie knife that was consistent with the injuries Janet sustained. On October 23rd, 30-year-old Maria was charged with murdering Janet Newton.
She refused to answer to the name Travis and would only respond when addressed as Maria Pearson.She was remanded into custody to appear again the following day.
The charges she faced were bigamy for marrying Malcolm Pearson on February 2nd 1986, criminal damage for smashing windows on June 22nd, absconding while on bail on August 6th, and obtaining goods by deception.
Maria's brother, a singer based in London, spoke to Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail reporter Margaret O'Rourke after his sister was charged with murder.
Colin Haywood couldn't believe what had happened and he had travelled back to Hartlepool as soon as he heard. Colin believed Maria had been victimized more times than anyone else.And if she'd had her family close by, she would have been safer.
He added, with our living away from the town, it has not been possible to know exactly what has been going on and the rough time Maria has been having with Pearson.
According to Colin, he believed Maria was innocent and that she was under the impression that Malcolm would try and get their daughter Rachel back once he got married.
Janet Newton's funeral was held on November 10th 1986 at St Paul's Church in Hartlepool.Her parents and three younger siblings held each other for support as they followed the casket into the church.
The prayers were led by Canon John Bullock who told mourners that Janet's life had been taken suddenly and tragically.He hoped her family would find the strength and courage they needed in the months to come.
The casket, decorated with pink and white floral wreaths, was then taken to Stranton Cemetery, where Janet was laid to rest.
In the following months, Maria Travers, or Maria Pearson as she preferred to be called, pleaded guilty to bigamy, deception and absconding.
She was committed to trial for the charge of murder, and the first day of testimony opened at Teesside Crown Court on July 13th, 1987.
Opening for the Crown Co-Counsel for the Prosecution, James Spencer QC told the court that the defendant had a troublesome relationship with Malcolm Pearson, and their daughter had been taken into care shortly before Malcolm began seeing Janet Newton.
After Maria moved out of the house she had shared with Malcolm on Carlton Street, he began taking Janet there in the evenings.James Spencer QC said,
Maria Travers, a woman whom Malcolm Pearson had left behind, was becoming increasingly jealous and bitter for possibly three reasons.She had to leave the Carlton Street house which she regarded as her home.
She had seen her daughter Rachel taken into care for a second time, and as the relationship between Malcolm Pearson and Miss Newton continued, she must have felt she had lost him.
lost the house, and perhaps most importantly stood the chance of losing her daughter for good.The court heard that Rachel had been with her foster parents since Easter 1986.
The prosecutor referred to the time when Maria turned up on Malcolm's doorstep one week before the murder and said that she went from conciliatory to angry and hateful.
James Spencer QC believed that it was at this point that Maria developed a hateful and aggressive obsession.The defendant had been seen with a Bowie knife in the days and weeks before the murder.The same type of knife found close to the scene.
A man named Roger Dennis told the court that he had met Maria on October 16th 1986 and she told him that her husband had stolen her furniture, clothes and TV set and she wanted to get it back.
He drove her to the house on Carlton Street and she attempted to break in.She told Roger that she had a knife with her.He said, She opened her coat and I saw the handle of a knife.
It was wooden with steel running through it sandwiched by the wood and rivets.Later that evening at a friend's house he saw the knife again.Roger Dennis told the court, It had a fixed blade. It was a bowie knife shape, about a foot long in a sheath.
That night they arranged to meet for a drink, and Roger collected Maria on his motorbike.As she sat behind him and leaned forward to hold onto him as he drove, Roger could feel something hard against his back and suspected it was the knife.
Maria told him she wanted to see her husband's new girlfriend and warn her off because she didn't want her living in their new house.Roger told the court, I said to her, you're not going to do anything stupid, are you?What if she won't warn off?
Maria replied, I'm going to kill her.But I didn't think she really meant it, but she did say it coldly.
A schoolgirl named Joanne Stone testified that her mother Sandra was friends with Maria, and shortly before the murder she had seen Maria with a knife in her living room.Maria told Joanne she had borrowed the blade from a friend.
Joanne said, I'm absolutely sure I saw a knife.It looked just like the one the police showed me, but I'm not absolutely sure it was the same one.The handle might have been black, not brown.
The shop manager of Scorers in Hartlepool said he recognised Maria as a regular customer and recalled that she had come into the shop on October 15th or 16th to buy a knife.
She claimed to need a cheap knife for her son who was going fishing for the first time.The shop manager sold Maria a bowie knife with a 4-5 inch blade and imitation wood handle for $2.99.
The prosecution argued that on October 18th 1986, Maria dressed in dark masculine clothing, convinced her former boyfriend Simon Fawcett to drive her to the area where Janet Newton lived with her parents.
A woman named Joyce Thompson who lived on Byron Street a short distance away, had been journeying to meet a friend at the Grange Hotel when she heard screams coming from the other side of the street.
She recalled seeing two people fighting and one of them, a small woman who she thought looked like a teenager, was letting out what she described as continuous screams one after the other.
Joyce said the smaller woman fell to the ground and curled up into a ball as the other person jogged away.It was the prosecution's case that Maria had followed Jani till she left her parents to go to Malcolm's home.
Maria stabbed Janet at least 17 times in the head and body, before dumping the knife in a drain and fleeing to Sunderland.
James Spencer QC revealed that two of the knife wounds were four inches deep and pierced Janet's heart, causing her to die within minutes.
He added, such was the force of one thrust to the chest which pierced the heart that it actually damaged the rib.
It is quite clear in the prosecution submission that when the accused stabbed Janet Newton so many times and with such force, her intention was clearly to kill or at the very least, cause serious bodily harm.
There can be no other consequence from stabbing so hard and in such places and with such a knife as this. Janet Newton's parents left the court as Home Office pathologist Dr. Harvey McTaggart stepped into the witness box.
He noted 19 injuries during Janet's post-mortem, including grazes, stab wounds, and slash marks.One of the attacker's thrusts hit the fifth rib, which cracked as the knife was levered up and down.
Janet also had head injuries and had been stabbed in the scalp, temple, and cheek. There were also defensive wounds to her left arm and right hand sustained as she desperately tried to protect herself.
The injuries were consistent with a four-inch blade with a single sharp edge, much like the bowie knife produced in court.Dr. McTaggart said, Stabbing with a weapon of this sort does not require a great deal of force to penetrate human tissue.
I am certain all of these injuries could have been caused by either a man or a woman.
The pathologist added that the attack likely lasted less than a minute, and Janet would have succumbed to her injuries within 15 minutes due to the severe internal bleeding she sustained.
He also concluded that while he wouldn't necessarily expect the attacker to be heavily bloodstained, he would be of the opinion that blood would get on their shoes and sleeves.Another medical expert, Dr John Dossett, testified too.
However, he disagreed with Dr. McTaggart and said that the pathologist's opinions were ridiculous and argued that at least one of the injuries would have required severe force.
Dr. Dossett arrived at that conclusion due to the nature of the wounds, in particular the way Janet's rib had been broken and the area around the stab wound was bruised.
Dr. Dossett believed it was possible that a woman could possess the strength necessary to inflict such a wound, and made reference to the strength of some female tennis players' serves.
He added, I cannot sort out by looking at them which women could do this or which could not.I cannot say it is impossible for Maria Travers to have caused the injury.I can only say the wound required severe force and strength.
Dr. Dossett also concluded that the injuries to Janet's head would have resulted in heavy bleeding and he would have told the police to look for a heavily bloodstained murderer.
Home Office forensic scientist Andrew Hunt had examined Maria's clothing and found blood smears on a three-quarter length coat she had been wearing.He said that Janet had an uncommon blood group shared by less than 1.5% of the population.
It matched the stains on Maria's clothes, which indicated she had been in close contact with Janet as she was bleeding.Malcolm Pearson took the stand next.He testified about how he went to look for Janet when she did not arrive at his home.
Malcolm said, I continued walking up Grange Road.I saw a woman's leg sticking out from under a car.It looked like she had been knocked down.There were cars parked tightly on the left.I thought someone had been knocked over.I just glanced.
I didn't take much notice. After speaking to Janet's parents, Malcolm realised it could have been her, but by the time he got back to Grange Road she had been taken away in the ambulance.
Under cross-examination by Maria's counsel Robert Smith QC, Malcolm Pearson admitted to being convicted of violent assaults on Maria during their relationship.
The barrister suggested that Malcolm had in fact killed Janet and acted in a fit of extreme violence after telling Janet that he was going back to Maria.Malcolm simply responded no and refused to elaborate.
Maria Pearson, as she preferred to be called, testified in her own defence on July 17th 1987.Barely audible at times and crying at others, Maria told the court about her quote, extremely stormy relationship with Malcolm Pearson.
She said, my main complaint against him would be that he was violent and he was a sexual deviant. According to Maria, Malcolm had been in court twice in a 10-day period for assaulting her and forcing her to strip at knife point.
She added, he said he wanted me to do things I didn't want to do.Maria said he would kick and beat her when she refused and at one point he had raped her.
Maria described Malcolm as fickle and attention-seeking, and when she found out about Janet Newton, she claimed to have mixed feelings.She continued, he had done it a lot, so once more didn't matter.
On the stand, Maria denied ever making threats to Janet or setting fire to the house on Carlton Street.
She alleged that Malcolm had been estranged from Janet for two days before the murder, and she had planned to meet up with him on October 18th after she was dropped off by Simon Fawcett.
According to Maria, she got out of the car after thinking she saw Janet, but as she got closer she realised it wasn't her. She said she then saw Malcolm approaching her from the direction of St Paul's Church, and he asked what she was doing.
She was apparently late.Maria told the court that they then began fighting, and he hit her.Coincidentally, Janet suddenly arrived, which prompted them to all start arguing about her daughter Rachel.
Maria said that Janet called Malcolm a poof, and he responded by calling her a slack. Maria added, he hit Janet.I grabbed hold of his hand and he yanked me behind him.I bounced off the wall.He was hitting her and I pulled his arm.
Then I turned and started to be sick.Asked what she saw that prompted her to be sick, Maria replied, blood.I think it was.I couldn't move.The blood was on Malcolm.His face was all twisted.
Maria said she ran off towards Carlton Street, but Malcolm soon caught up with her.She claimed that he grabbed her, put the knife up to her face and warned her, if you open your mouth.
She said his threats were interrupted by her choking on vomit, but she was frozen to the spot and couldn't move. A few seconds later she ran back in the direction she had come from.She said she must have passed Janet's body but she hadn't seen it.
Maria told the court that Malcolm grabbed hold of her again, and she managed to get him to let her go by telling him he should go and wash the blood off his hands and clothes.She said he asked her, are you going to betray me?
When she said she wouldn't, he left, and she got a lift to Sunderland with Simon Fawcett. During cross-examination by co-counsel for the prosecution Franz Muller QC, Maria denied telling Simon that she had stabbed Janet in the face.
The barrister asked her, Since you cannot remember seeing blood anywhere on Janet, how did you know she had been stabbed in the face?Was it sheer coincidence?He added, You were able to say she had been stabbed in the face because you did that.
Maria replied, that's totally untrue.I have never stabbed anyone at any time, never.
Franz Muller QC suggested that the defendant had mentioned a penknife to Simon Fawcett because she had tossed the murder weapon into a drain on the way back to the car.Maria denied ever having a knife.
The prosecutor accused Maria of being a proficient liar who had lied persistently during her police interviews. Maria claimed she had no choice but to lie.
She said that she had made plans with her brother Colin Haywood in London on the Sunday and Monday after the murder and had planned what to say if she was asked.
According to Maria, after Malcolm killed Janet, Simon drove her to her Aunt Sheila's house in Sunderland and then she went to London to visit her brother and then on to Oxford to see her friend Francis Duffy.
She said that she hadn't had the chance to tell anyone about what had happened because her aunt was preoccupied with upsetting family matters and she had only stayed with her friend for a few minutes.
She did however admit that she had lied to the police about knowing Simon Fawcett.She said she was trying to protect her children from Malcolm as Maria believed he would go after them if she told the truth.
She claimed she was being truthful in court now because she knew her mother had moved out of Hartlepool with her two older children, and Malcolm couldn't reach them.
The prosecutor challenged Maria's claims and said, Far from covering up for Malcolm, you are pointing the finger towards him.
It doesn't make sense to say you were afraid of telling the police the truth about Malcolm and then to tell lies that actually implicates him.
After Maria said it made sense to her because she didn't give the full details, Franz Müller QC told her, You were treading a very fine line, trying to avoid responsibility while at the same time pointing the finger at Malcolm Pearson.
Maria said her only choices were to say she was at the scene or say nothing at all.She claimed she had been uneasy in the police interviews because she believed Detective Sergeant Greaves had a grudge against her.
She admitted to having some animosity towards Janet, but said that it wasn't enough to wish her dead. in response to Maria's answers, which were evasive at times.Mr Justice Ian Kennedy told her, I must warn you, you must answer the question.
You keep answering obliquely by answering one which is slightly different.The judge also had to tell her to speak up and had to pause on three occasions because she was crying.
Maria admitted to writing offensive letters in which she called Janet a gold digger and unattractive.She explained, I had similar letters myself.When I was angry, I tended to write things down.I was not a physically angry person.
In his closing address, Prosecutor Franz Muller QC said that Maria had made wild allegations about Malcolm Pearson to cover up her own crime.
The barrister said that Malcolm had been fined £100 in the past for assaulting Maria, and added that it was not a high penalty, which illustrated the lack of severity of the attacks.
There was also no evidence that Malcolm had ever been abusive towards Janet. Franz Müller QC said, Whatever Malcolm's faults, you may think the defendant has spared nothing to dramatize the situation and exaggerate them out of all true proportion.
You may wonder if he was the way she has described, why she had anything to do with him at all.
The jury of seven men and five women were told that the evidence clearly proved that Maria had stabbed Janet Newton 17 times in the head and body, quote, with at least the intention of causing really serious harm.
And in those circumstances, the only right and proper verdict is one of guilty.Franz Müller QC told the jury they could consider the state of Maria's health, but told them not to take her for a fool. speaking about the defendant, he added.
She is an intelligent and clever woman, quite capable of answering questions if she wants to, and quite capable of avoiding answering questions if she wants to, quite capable of seeking to manipulate the situation by diverting attention away from the matter which she may find sensitive.
Was she a fair and honest witness, or was she a witness who repeatedly avoided answering questions and took refuge in one device after another? It was argued that the threats the defendant made demonstrated the animosity she had towards the victim.
She had also been seen with the weapon found close to the scene, and the man who sold the knife recognized her as the person who had bought it.The barrister continued,
In our submission, she was an obsessed, jealous and bitter woman who, from October 11th, if not before, moved slowly but surely along the path which finished on the pavement of Grange Road that night.
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Acting for the defence, Robert Smith QC assured the jury that if they arrived at a not guilty verdict for the defendant, that did not mean they were finding Malcolm Pearce unguilty.
Quote, It simply means the prosecution has failed to prove this charge against her.Your task is simply to say whether the prosecution has proved Maria Travers committed this murder.You are not trying Malcolm for anything.You are trying her.
Council for the Defence believed that Malcolm was shown to be violent in the past and was capable of behaving in an outrageously violent manner.
The barrister asked the jury if they thought the £100 fines would deter a 6ft2 welder who had displayed violent swings of mood.
Robert Smith QC told the court that on the night Malcolm proposed to Janet Newton, he was seen acting difficult and unpleasant because Janet wanted to do something he didn't.
Referring to his client, Robert Smith QC said that Maria was a sad figure, not the intelligent murderess she had been portrayed to be.
He asked the jury, if she had been a cunning, clever and intelligent woman, do you think she would, for one moment, have conducted herself the way she has over these two days?
The mark of a cunning, clever and intelligent defendant is to have a story already, and answer questions in a glib, careful and clever way, and not dwell at length on irrelevances.
Presiding Judge Mr Justice Ian Kennedy told the jury that they had to consider whether Maria had killed Janet, and if so, whether she had been provoked. The jury deliberated for two and a half hours before returning to court.
They found Maria Pearson guilty of murdering Janet Newton by a unanimous verdict.As the verdict was announced, a rapturous applause and cheers broke out in the public gallery.
Mr. Justice Kennedy addressed Maria directly and told her, the evidence against you was overwhelming.This was a cruel, vicious murder.I have no course open to me other than to sentence you to life imprisonment.
As she was led out of the court, pale faced and silent, members of the public shouted insults at the defendant, calling Maria Pearson a cow and a slack. After the verdict, Malcolm Pearson spoke with a reporter for the Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail.
He said he could never forgive his former partner, and although he took some consolation from the verdict, Janet was still dead.
Speaking to the Daily Post, Malcolm added, I cannot be happy because even if the sentence had been for 50 years, it cannot bring Janet back, the loveliest girl I have ever known.
It's been a nightmare, but at least it has lifted any suspicion from me.Malcolm planned to try and get his young daughter Rachel back into his custody. Rachel is in care at present, but I now think I have a good chance of gaining custody of her.
She's the brightest little girl I have ever seen, even if I am biased."Malcolm called Maria a compulsive liar and added, she's not the type of person to admit anything.She's incapable of telling the truth even to save herself.
Speaking about their relationship, he said things went from bad to worse.According to Malcolm, it had just been a date and nothing more.Quote.She got herself pregnant more or less straight away.I was in a vicious circle right from the start.
She just beat me over the head with the baby ever since.She obviously despised me.She was anything but in love. Malcolm told the Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail that Maria was an evil influence on anything she came into contact with.
He claimed that she cared more about money and clothes than her children.She had once left Rachel outside a supermarket, travelled to Malcolm's home and told him to go and find her.He added, I'm not perfect, but she drove me beyond myself.
That was when I hit her. According to Malcolm, he thought Maria was neglecting Rachel, and he had only agreed to marry her for the baby's sake.
I provided all the money for the prams and everything, but Maria always wanted more for herself and new clothes.Clothes and money were the main things in her life.I eventually agreed to marry her in the hope that it would make her settle down.
However, things got worse. It was quite plain from the moment after the wedding that all she wanted was the house.She wants what she wants, and she will have it come hell or high water.
A few hours after being sentenced to life in prison for murdering Janet Newton, Maria Pearson was brought back into court to be sentenced for bigamy, deception and failing to surrender to custody.
She received a nominal one-day sentence for each of the charges.Her counsel confirmed she had no intention to file an appeal and added, she is now at a dispersal prison where suitable facilities exist to assess her.
It will then be decided which regime and establishment she will be best suited.Janet Newton's parents were also interviewed by a reporter for the Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail.
Their living room was described as a shrine filled with Janet's unopened birthday presents.Carol Newton said, we will never forget.I've not moved or touched any of her things.You just kid yourself all the time.
You can't come to terms with the fact that she's gone. Carol said Janet was her best friend and it felt like everything reminded her parents of their daughter.
John Newton said, she once stood outside Abbey National collecting for charity all day in the rain and cold.That's what sort of person Janet was.Janet's parents didn't blame Malcolm Pearson for what had happened.
Her father John said that Maria did everything she could to break them up, but it just brought them closer together and they fell in love.John spoke about the time Maria called to their house and said, I even made her a cup of tea.
I wish I'd put poison in it. Describing how he felt justice had not been served, John added, the last six months have been awful.It's just been a question of waiting and waiting.Now it's all over, we just want to forget the whole episode.
Janet though, will always be in our minds.We are satisfied with the verdict, but she still not got what she deserved.She should have got the rope.
In January 1988, Maria Pearson wrote to the Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail about how she would never give up fighting and she was arguing that she was not of sound mind around the time of the murder.
Maria filed an appeal against her conviction in April of that year.
In the application to apply for leave to appeal, her legal counsel wrote, the appellant is of the view that as a result of her mental and physical state at the time of the murder in October 1986, she was not responsible for her actions, nor was she at the time of the trial in July 1987, in a position to appreciate the advice which she was given in relation to the question of a plea of diminished responsibility.
It is understood that the appellant was under considerable strain for a number of months prior to the alleged murder, as a result of the behaviour of the man with whom she was then living.
The appellant suffered a miscarriage on the 12th of October 1986, not long before the alleged murder on the 18th of October 1986, and was apparently suffering from both postnatal depression and premenstrual tension at the time of the incident.
The application for leave to appeal was refused.Six months later in November 1988, as Carol and John Newton were visiting their daughter's grave, a thief broke into their home and stole the jewelry Janet had been wearing at the time of her death.
A watch, a Diamante necklace and earrings were taken, along with a gold rope chain that Janet had bought for her mother.Carol said, all have great sentimental value to us.They were the last links we had to Janet.
In July 1990, Maria Pearson's legal counsel revised the grounds for her application for leave to appeal and included a statement from Maria in which she admitted to killing Janet Newton.
She wanted to introduce a fresh account to the court and raise a defence of self-defence and provocation, quote, set against a background of turmoil and oppression brought about by the victim and Malcolm Pearson.
The application was dismissed in April 1991.Lord Justice Watkins described her attempt to appeal as, a mischievous and skillful attempt to deceive the court.
Upon hearing the news about Maria's latest appeal, Janet's mother Carol spoke with the press and said, she seems to do this to us every year, just after the anniversary of us losing Janet. I think she is determined to make sure we continue suffering.
I just wish she would give up and stop causing us all more upset.It is typical of her to keep on and on.She should just accept she is going to have a life sentence."
Four years later in 1995, one of Maria's daughters, Samantha, began calling for her mother's release. In an interview, Samantha claimed that Janet Newton had taunted her mother and provoked her into a fight.
In response, Janet's mother, Carol, remarked, that is not true.That woman stalked my daughter and stabbed her.She is evil.She is an evil and wicked woman and should not be freed.Life should mean life and that would satisfy us.
Speaking about the interview with one of Maria's daughters, Carol added, it is just so maddening to see this.I relive those moments before Janet's death over and over, and this sort of thing does not help.
For the sort of woman she is, it is better she stays behind bars.While Carol Newton was devastated by the allegations, she couldn't help but sympathize with Samantha.
I look at her and see a lovely young girl with all her future and life ahead of her, like my Janet never had, and it maddens me.I pity her for the mother she has.
A year earlier in 1994, Maria Pearson asked the Home Secretary to refer her case back to the Court of Appeal on the grounds that her responsibility had been impaired by a personality disorder and what was referred to as Battered Woman Syndrome.
A psychiatric report by Dr. Gillian Mezzi was included.The Home Secretary, however, declined to refer the case to the Court of Appeal.
When the Criminal Cases Review Commission took over from the Criminal Cases Unit of the Home Office in April 1997, the Committee considered the case.
The CCRC have the power to refer cases back to the Court of Appeal if they believe there is new and fresh evidence that was not available at the time of the trial that could possibly result in the conviction being unsafe.
It is up to the CCRC to predict whether or not the Court of Appeal would uphold the conviction if it were referred to them.
After the CCRC decided not to refer the application to the Court of Appeal, Maria replied for a judicial review granted in February 1999.This was the first time the Commission's decision had been challenged in court.
Maria's legal counsel claimed that the commission had applied the wrong test when deciding whether the medical evidence that she had been suffering from a severe personality disorder and battered woman syndrome was sufficient to justify a hearing.
It was asserted that reports showed that Maria had been a victim of battered woman syndrome, which had not been recognised as a mental condition until 1994, and so she wasn't capable of submitting a plea of diminished responsibility.
Maria's counsel argued that she should have been convicted of manslaughter under the 1967 Homicide Act as a result of those diagnoses.
In response, the Criminal Cases Review Commission highlighted that the report by Dr Mezzi was completed in 1994 and was written retrospectively when a psychiatrist who had examined Maria at the time of the trial found that it was unlikely her responsibility was substantially diminished.
The Commission stated, Although there was independent corroboration of some of the applicant's factual narrative, Dr Mezzi had had to rely a substantial extent on the account of the applicant, and her account could not be relied upon.
It was questionable whether the applicant was a victim of the battered woman syndrome, since her violence had been directed not at the abuser but at a third party, and there was no hazard to her physical safety at the time of the offence, which happened when the applicant sought out the victim in the street.
Beverly Lang for the CCRC argued that the reports did not even come close to establishing that her conviction should be referred back to the Court of Appeal, and added that Maria Pearson's conduct could have just as easily been explained by jealousy than a disorder.
During a judicial review, Law Chief Justice Bingham said,
Despite much evidence of long-standing abnormality and personality disorder, the first report suggesting that the applicant's responsibility at the time of the killing had been substantially impaired was written eight years after the event.
There was no contemporary support for that view, and no consensus among the doctors.The report depended at least in part on the account of the applicant herself, who was properly found to be an unreliable source.
The application was once again dismissed.Janet Newton's brother, John, who was then 34 years old, spoke to the Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail about Maria Pearson's appeals over the previous 10 years.
He described their ordeal as a constant nightmare and only heard there had been another appeal through the press.John said, I think this is the last appeal she can possibly do.I put my trust in the judicial system.We feel like justice has been done.
We hope she will serve the rest of her life sentence and that will be that.My mom just wants to get on with her life.She's very upset about the whole matter.
In 2004, Maria Pearson was moved to an open prison, only to be recalled a few months later when she was reported to have bullied and intimidated other prisoners.
Two years later, her parole application was refused by then Home Secretary John Reid, as was a recommendation that she be moved to an open prison.She challenged the decision at London's High Court in 2008.
Speaking to the judge via video link from prison, Maria said that the Home Secretary's decision was politically motivated.She added, I'm not a danger to society.Indeed, I never have been.
The Home Secretary said there were still concerns over Maria's constant pattern of manipulation behind bars.She had displayed a negative attitude towards both figures of authority and treatment.
According to Teesside Live, the judge told Maria she was in denial and continue to show limited sympathy for Janet Newton's family.So where are we now?
In 2021, Maria Pearson was moved to an open prison after she engaged with support for people with complex behavioural issues.However, just three months later, she was returned to closed conditions.
The then 65-year-old had been ordered to serve a minimum of 12 years in prison when she was convicted, but she had served over 30 years. refusing her application for parole.
The parole board said that she had ongoing difficulties with prison staff and other inmates. at the time of Maria's ninth attempt at being granted parole in January 2023.
The parole board stated, Parole board decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community.
A panel will carefully examine a huge range of evidence, including details of the original crime and any evidence of behaviour change, as well as explore the harm done and impact the crime has had on the victims.
Members read and digest hundreds of pages of evidence and reports in the lead-up to the oral hearing.
Evidence from witnesses including probation officers, psychiatrists and psychologists, officials supervising the offender in prison as well as victim personal statements are then given at the hearing.
The prisoner and witnesses are then questioned at length during the hearing, which often lasts a full day or more.Parole reviews are undertaken thoroughly and with extreme care.Protecting the public is our number one priority.
Malcolm Pearson's niece Andrea spoke out at the time and believed that her uncle's former partner should never be released.Describing Maria as an absolute psychopath, Malcolm's niece added, It was horrible what happened to Janet.
I don't think you can rehabilitate psychos, and that's what she was.She came across as lovely, but then she would flip like the flick of a switch. I saw that with my own eyes.She was obsessed with Malcolm.
I'm not frightened of many people, but I am of her.If she came back to Hartlepool, I don't think she would harm me or my family, but she could harm Malcolm.The following month, the further bid for parole was again rejected.
The parole board said that Maria was also unfit to move to an open prison as she had shown she was willing to resort to violence in the past.When she did engage with the rehabilitation programs, she only told facilitators what they wanted to hear.
In 2024, Maria Pearson became the UK's longest-serving female prisoner, passing Myra Hindley who had served 36 years before her death in 2002.Maria has applied for parole again.The decision is still pending.
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