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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2021
- In quaint, picturesque Plympton, Devon, Audrey and Eric Hingston, 81 and 83, were enjoying the twilight of their happy marriage in their cosy home. This idyllic scene was destroyed when Eric was brutally stabbed to death during a supposed burglary in 2003.
His widow, Audrey made pained TV appeals to locate the killers, and bravely managed to provide police with a perfect description of the two culprits. As the bereaved extended family were torn between sorrow at the loss of Eric, and sympathy for Audrey, police launched an investigation costing £160,000 involving 481 hours of house inquiries.
They tracked down the two men Audrey had described, but there was a problem. They both had cast iron alibis. This prompted police to review the case and they came to a shocking realisation. At the crime scene, they found the supposedly stolen jewellery hidden in bin bags, and other signs of a set up. The town was thrown into turmoil when a new arrest was made, and this time it stuck; it was Audrey.
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I’ll be 84 next week so don’t give me this frail old lady crap. She got away with murder pure and simple. She was just mad because she couldn’t have the fun life style anymore. Shame on the court for letting her get away with it. I’ll bet she wasn’t the great person people thought she was for her whole life. RIP Eric.
Hello there.
Seeing people like you using the internet makes my heart immensely happy! My mom is twenty years younger than you and she has troubles using her fairly simple phone.
Please stay safe.
Greetings from Russia ❤️
Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday Dear "Dee E". Happy Birthday to you. If you ever think of murdering someone because being cared for in prison might be better than where you are at this time, make sure you murder someone like that evil witch. We can do without such people. Wishing you a very happy 85th year Dee. Enjoy it. Greeting from The Netherlands. Dave (75)
Wow, you're very cool and young at mind!
GreetingGreetings to you too, Dave!
Happy birthday to u 💛💓 🎂🥳🎉🎈 t
The worst part is that she implicated two innocent men. Then they said she had "diminished responsibility." Simply unbelievable.
WORST PART IS SHE COMMITTED MURDER.
@@marilynwillett804 Sometimes murder might just be the best option.
@@animallover4955 SHE DID !!!!
@@judedonnelly4100 she did WHAT?
Exactly, she was as cunning as a fox! I'm curious if Eric left her any life insurance.
I have a friend right now, at 60 has become the caretaker of her 72 yr old bedridden husband. She has to feed (can’t feed himself or even hold his own drinks) change his diaper and all before leaving to hold down her full-time job. I help him when she’s not there. She then gets home at 7:30 pm, cooks dinner, feeds him, changes diaper and then takes her own shower and collapses in bed to start the day the same way.
It’s hard on her, I do the best I can to lighten her load. I know I would not want to walk even a mile in her shoes for one day.
He says quite often how he feels like such a burden on everyone. She tells him “ I took vows, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, so stop talking like that.”
And just a few years ago, he took care of her while she fought cancer.
I really admire that woman. And she stays strong in her faith and thanks God in everything that comes.
Blessings.. thank you for sharing.
has anyone here been a full time care giver to their spouse? or to an individual with around the clock demands? and if not, do you know what the state, or country, provides for help with those who become the primary care provider to someone with 24 hour care needs? ever meet a woman who was pushed so far with her child, that she considered killing the child? text freely you fools, it is easy to judge...what do you know? just black and white? she could have been doing her husband a favour. ever see true suffering in a human being? how long to we make someone live? pills and procedure...
@@MarielaMartinArtist Women do not have the upper body strength that men have, especially as we age. I know a woman about 58, she has now permanently ruined her body because she was always lifting her big heavy husband who I realise is paralized on one side, but he could have managed to roll over on his good side and assist her somehow.
That's rough. She is doing the right thing, even though it must be very hard. This woman was a good time gal, that's it. As long as he could show her a good time things were great. When he couldn't, goodnight
People don't realize how hard it can be to care for someone with a chronic illness or a serious handicap. I watched my mother go through this with my dad when he was in and out of the hospital for 2 years with serious health issues. It was a revelation. I had never seen my mom so stressed or so scared in my entire life. Of course, it didn't help that she refused to ask for help. If you know someone in this position, please help them in any way you can and encourage them to get away from time to time. Also consider that it may be difficult to find help in a rural area. If family and neighbors had stepped up to the plate this might not have happened. I have a chronic condition, but am lucky to live in a good nursing home. In the States, we don't have the best support for families in this position, and what is available is expensive.
I worked in a nursing home. One 80 something year old had broke a caregivers ribs. They are stronger than you would think.
WOW! 😯
I work in a hospital yes try to control a 101 year old with dementia.
Definetly and they are not all good people just cuz they're old
Yup its amazing how strong they are. I worked in a nursing home as well. One nearly break my hands.
Whoa! 😯
"Didn't present a danger to the public." She tried to frame two innocent men for the murder she committed. They could've been wrongfully convicted. Sounds pretty dangerous to me.
They wont be convicted when there is no real evidence. Just pointing at someone usually is not enough.
You are right. I couldn't agree more.
Exactly!
@@willshedo
Emmitt Till😞
In some ass backwards regions of the world, like Mississippi, they would have very likely been convicted.
I would have been suspicious the moment the woman said that the robbers ran off and left the loot behind when she entered the room. Why would two young male robbers who just murdered an old man run away at the sight of his equally old wife? Believing that granny scared them off is entirely unbelievable to me.
My thoughts exactly...didn't make sense to me.
exactly why would they spare the frail tiny old lady who couldnt identify them
@@smokerscoach6390 she did identify them
the title said it so..but when the call comes..
@@elavke5441 did you even watch the show? She killed her husband! There were no intruders for her to identify. There was no one there except her and her husband/victim.
She murdered her husband and it was premeditated, because she had the knife being sharpened 2 weeks before. And then she wanted to blame 2 innocent young men. It’s ridiculous she only got 2 years and served only one and lived happily ever after for another 12 years. She should have gotten a life sentence! This was not justice at all.
don't forget that she had HIS SON sharpen the knife!! WOW
I agree...it should not matter how old you are. If you take a life, you must be held accountable. Why don't these people just get a divorce.
Just imagine she absolutely would have let innocent people go to jail for her crime
@@hilomona Screw you! One of the elderly friends of my (now deceased) elderly mother told me how her first marriage was to an abusive man. She didn't kill him; he drank himself to death instead. She vowed she would never have anything to do with men after that, and lived for her children and later grandchildren. Then, at age seventy, she met a man who she described as 'the love of her life'. It was instant, two-way love at first sight. They married, she followed him to the UK, leaving her family behind, and was blissfully happy for the next few years. Then, I believe after four years, he got serious health problems which reduced him within the year to a near vegetative state. She became his full time carer. Had to wash, dress and feed him and clean him after a full diaper. She did this 'till his death, six years later. When I met her, she was in her early nineties. Still a stern, no-nonsense, sturdy woman, even though no longer as robust as before, and prodded her for stories about her life. She would tell me about her abusive childhood, her 'escape' from that to her marriage with her drunken abusive husband and her face would be like stone. Then she would talk about her precious few years with her Terry and her face would lit up and soften. I asked if caring for him wasn't hard and she said, "it isn't hard when you love someone".
And then there is you.
What bothers me is the cops were biased and just assumed she didn't do it just because she was old. How did her first husband die?
She did not have diminished capacity. This was a well planned, calculated murder. If she was tired of caring for him, hire help, or place him in a nursing home.
I’m wondering how her first husband died...
It wasn't that well planned because she left too many gaping holes for the police to find. Maybe they couldn't afford help or a nursing home. Neither are cheap and I have no idea from this video what their financial circumstances were. She may have gotten burnt out taking care of him herself at her age (it is physically and mentally tough) and snapped. It happens in these circumstances. I don't condone her solution to the situation at all, but I can see how it happened suddenly.
@@susanharris5926 she planned it without a doubt..were all burnt out,no excuse 4 murder
@@susanharris5926 Getting burned out is no excuse for killing him. She asked her son to sharpen the knife used to kill him. That premeditation. She planned it. All she had to do was ask for help. It makes me wonder about the death of her first husband. This happened in 2003, so she's probably deceased now. Her son wanted nothing to do with her afterwards, so I wonder were she resided after a mere 1 year in prison?
If I were her neighbor's, I wouldn't want her to return. She's not to be trusted
@@emmas1082 exactly what I was thinking 🤔
2 yrs..that’s such BS. If it had been the 2 young men she tried to pin it on, they would have gotten life. And on top of everything she only served 1 year. So unjust for his family. 🥺😤😓
Old
Doesn't matter how old it is, it happened. It's a interesting story no matter when it took place
Yeah, and she lived 12 years after that. Yeesh 😕
@@LiMaM93 Yeah, that's what really irked me. She probably got such a light sentence because the court assumed she was so old, she'd likely die while in prison. Then the old bird gets out & hangs on another 12 years. So unfair. My husband was ill for many years before I lost him, & I was his only caregiver until he required more than I was capable of (I was diagnosed with cancer, & am now quite ill), & he went to a nursing facility for the last 3 years of his life. At no time could I have fathomed just killing him off. Good God, he was my life! Apparently Miss Audrey didn't understand how real love works. All she needed to do was ask for help. So sad for both their families.
A life for a life.....that's justice not 2 years or even 10 years for brutally killing a person with whom u lived for 20 years and stab him and saw him die while u are busy creating a crime scene🤬🤬🤬🤬
She’s plain evil. She killed her own husband and framed 2 young guys. They could also have been wrongly convicted.
Just started watching but I all ready know that a major crime was committed towards those two young men.
Let us guess, they were foreigners
I wonder what their skin color is . Thats what have saved them
@@glovanajnbaptiste2272
You know I was considering the same thing.🤔
It's unfortunate that "certain people" are almost always the "go to" culprits and the situation ends there with no further investigation, only to find out 20 years later the victim lied. 😒
@@glovanajnbaptiste2272 Their rock solid alibi and zero forensic evidence saved them.
Not a danger to the public? It is exactly the ones who are beyond suspicion who are the one's who are a danger to society.😡
It was a shocking sentence indeed. It certainly sounds that she played the role of the "frail little old lady" with "diminished responsibility" very well and in so doing, managed to hoodwink the legal system. I am a strong advocate for the rights of senior citizens, having worked as a healthcare professional specialising in elderly care - but i also know from direct experience that the myth of the "tiny frail old lady/gentleman" is frequently just that - a myth.
Totally agree. While I certainly think we all need to have a responsibility towards the elderly in our society, to respect, love and care for them- letting them get away with all kinds of things, including murder is not justice. Just because she was old, didn't mean she had diminished capacity.
This woman was very calculating and wanted two random young men who she just so happened to see going into the pub next door to take the fall. Essentially she wanted to take their lives too away from them.
Then when they found the murder weapon, she claimed he committed suicide and she staged a break-in to save the family of an embarrassment of some sort? This old lady is evil and I can't believe they deemed her *NOT* a danger to society.
Hello???? She stabbed her own husband to death, but you don't see her as a danger to anyone??? I just cannot...
Yes, I also spent time in healthcare for the elderly and they can be as mean as heck, plus very strong. Just because they are old doesn't mean a thing.
@@thereeldemodeal3389 I completely agree with you. They can be rude , mean , sarcastic and just horrible. I used to take care of few elderly people. One lady was 95 and pure and very abusive witch . Even two of her own kids hadn't talked to her for years and did not come to her funeral .
I learned one thing in life . Look into the past behavior to predict future behavior. I'm sure you can find some s#it if this old murder. Her sentence is an insult.
And even old ladies who really are frail could still murder someone by poisoning. Or with a gun.
Exactly. Old was once young and one day young will be old. People are people are people. Some are good… some are suspicious and some are in between. Wherever that is. As a former caregiver of the elderly, it was so fascinating to witness some of the clients manipulatively play the age card.😂 Also, what’s even more Fascinating … to think I’d fall for it. I could always tell which elder probably was spoiled as a child. Spoiled humans are usually manipulative humans.
I felt so bad for Eric's family. What a tragedy for them. May he RIP.
I wonder if they ever looked into the death of her first husband?
Good question, but to late for that now or even back them.
She probably killed him too.
@@leanderrowe2800 I agree.
Good point. They tend to repeat their crimes...strangely using the same tactics.
It won't change much worst come to worst she'll do another year for her first husband,, stupid juge give her two years for murder!!
My elderly father punched me in the face, I called the police and when the police arrived he lied to them and said I hit him. They believed him because of his age (even though I was the one bleeding and he had cuts on his knuckles from my teeth) I can definitely see how they were taken in by this evil old woman 😔
I can NOT believe she was sentenced 2 yrs!!! And to make matters worse she only served 1 yr!!! Where is tge Justice???!!!
seriously?! she knew they were 2 young men she could describe in detail = she saw them clearly and yet they spared HER?! for what reason?! people actually felt sorry for such a liar simply because she looked frail?! the more I know people, the more i love and respect animals.
Do not loose faith in humanity. There are plenty of us that are good people. ❤
@@WS-zs1ss if you say so
@ethis is not about race
@e all but the race. I would like to think even brittan is better than that
@e didn't know that. No one should expect to get only 2 yrs for killing your partner. It's all sad.
She obviously was extremely selfish and cruel, without compassion.
Yes she was. It was all about her.
@@smc130 kinda makes you wonder what being married to her was like
Wicked Woman
yeah, I can't help but think the event that she said had "ruined her life" in the press conference and the suicide letter must have been her husband becoming ill and needing care. I also think she probably had be very impatient, cross with him and possibly terrorising him for quite some time in advance. Poor man, if that is the case.
She died TWELVE YEARS LATER?! My God, Eric’s family definitely didn’t deserve that.
Oh believe me, she would have gone through hell. Nobody in the area would've said a kind word to her or helped her for those 12 years. It's England. Those would be the loneliest and hostile years of her life. Worse than solitary confinement 😂
@@gracieamazing2076 She could not ask for help anyway. This means she was lonely all her life.
@@gracieamazing2076 good
@@sabineeins2651 all her life? Or the last 12yrs?
@@elavke5441 My dear child you did not understand my post at all sorry to say.
She put on one hell of a good show. Especially at the news conference.
Yea I don't know ...she smacked her lips too many times for comfort. It seemed like she ws wiping off a smirk.😞
You thought that was good acting?
@@FC-hj9ub If she would have been younger and no old age cracking voice or lots of, well, wrinkled old flesh in her face everyone would have realized her lying right away. She "helped" nature, and nature helped her.
@@KOKOAXXXable she could have gave it away with a maniacal laughter at the end (muhahahahaha) ...everyone would have been like wtf old lady?
Respect to Eric, war hero; he put his life on the line for us. Never forget.
How about a divorce. Look in her EYES they tell it all HARD, COLD and CALCULATED.
Why do people say stupid shit like this? Eye balls do no tell anyone anything. If we could look everyone in the eyes and identify murderers than this wouldn't be an issue in the first place.
@@chndlr18 bahaha! You hit the nail on the head. After the crime, people attributed her demeanor to be shock, If she had been found innocent, people would have said she was just looked devastated, now that we know she is guilty her eyes say evil.....Not to say that affect isn't a factor but it's not "in the eyes", that's for sure (unless you are Charles Manson and then ok, it's definitely in the eyes 😉 😆).
@@chndlr18 Right? Once they know the outcome of a case, everyone is a forensics specialist who could have done better than the police.
Why kill the husband? If you can’t take care of him, put him in a nursing home, or hire a helper to do the job!
The most shocking part of the story was the killer's sentence.
dont be absurd the murder is the shock.or it should be to all.
Being "old" doesn't make you sweet, gentle and innocent or mentally stable. Her conference wasn't "impassioned". It was stale, dead, devoid of emotion. She just read, dry-eyed, the words on a paper without ever looking up. People too often project their own emotions and morals onto others, but if you really look at behavior with a critical eye you'd she is fake asf.
Btw, 2 years is an absolute joke of a sentence. WTF is wrong with your judicial system? His life was worth nothing, I guess.
I agree, and furthermore had the roles been reversed he'd died in prison. No sympathy just the whole book thrown at him. The judicial system is a joke period. Only men now days pay the price.
Exactly!! Old people are mean as fuck lol
@@Your_Favorite_Villain no, not all old people. Mean young people turn into mean old people,
She also never looked up in her speech in the conference. She's out in one year, justice is not served.
Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand all need harsher sentencing laws. Wonderful countries, but many people in the comments sections think the victims and their families do not get justice and would-be felons have little deterrent.
Did Audrey forget for better, for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health?
Cold blooded murder didn't make anything better and justice truly was not served.
Poor fellow, first he lost his health then he was murdered by someone he loved.
he lived by the knife ...and... (sorry) she had the murder weapon sharpened ... twisted character her.
Old people can be just as brutal as anyone else. More so, in some cases.
You’re right, there are worse things then death being metered out by the elderly. Too many of these crime shows are about the elderly.
Probably because we start everyday cantankerous just trying to get out of bed and the day goes downhill from there!!
Why would “old people” be any different than anyone else? Why is this comment even necessary lol
I hate people who always try to make us so forgiving to the elderly. "They're our national treasures" "old people should be respected no matter what." Narcissists, bullies and criminals all grow old.
@@courtneybazinet7824 because there's a stupid societal prejudice that elderly people are sedentary and kind and innocent.
I became a “ carer “, and initially gave what I had to give. After years, as we lived a part, I became mean spirited, resentful, I pulled away, refused physical intimacy and eventually left the relationship.
I drew the line at Not
Stabbing him to death.
She could have organised home help and left him.
Exactly! Wow as the detective said, if that is a cry for help, then CRY FOR HELP. I also never felt like stabbing anyone to death to get out of a situation. Many bosses are probably pleased....
But if you were the one who needed the carer? How selfish you are and in no position to pass judgment.
We can't pretend that caring for someone in bad health is easy by any means. It's not selfish to understand that not everyone is capable of devoting the better part of their life to care-giving. Hence why nursing homes and homecare professionals exist.
Audrey Hingston could've asked for help and should've. If she couldn't take the strain of care-giving, she should've informed his family so that they find help for him and then left.
that's all brave of you to admit, I had a bug stroke and lost the use of my left side, I cane walk but with a cane and not for long distances, I cannot dress or shower or cook on my own I cannot mange my medication, or appointments or drive (the stroke left me with epilepsy and I need to be seizure free for six months before I can start rehab driving classes before I can try to get my lsdriver'- lisence back (in CA) I have a very limited short term memory now I can remember things that happened ten years ago better than what happened ten minutes ago, it cut my vison by about 60 percent which means I need audio books as I can't see well my husband started out taking excellent care of me and being very loving and supportive, but now twelve years later he's become hypervigilant and controlling ,no longer loving support, but anger and resentment we are both mourning what this has done to our lives and feeling like we lost the person we married it's taken a serious toll on our marriage, ebviously and happiness
@@24get24give if you don’t have a lot of money you need to contact “in home support services” in your county if you haven’t already, to get somebody to come in and relieve your husband. His job is 24/7 and I’m sure it’s hard on him as well.
2 years!▪︎▪︎Served 1 year! Am I hearing this correctly? Disgraceful. His life was worth nothing. This Judge should be disbarred.
It’s the UK. It’s like Canada, it’s a joke. In Texas, she likely would not get out, except in a box.
what does it matter at that age? she didn't have much longer anyway to live...
@@Stichting_NoFap …she lived another 13 or 16 years or something. All of it should have been in prison.
@@Stichting_NoFap Another 12 years! More than he got.
@@Stichting_NoFap she lived 12 years after being released! Watch the video again.
She spoke facts - her husband did not deserve it.
My heart goes out to his children.
Imagine how he felt laying there helplessly
If you marry at an older age, you have to consider the possibility of caring for each other if needed. But don’t you do that anyway? 🤷♀️
Well said Sue. What do people at age think??? U gonna be healthy forever??
Exactly this. You get married in sickness and in health.
If you get married at a more advanced age to a person also of a more advanced age rhen you know full well that there will probably be sickness.
I know a young man that was a professional bull rider. He was thrown from a bull in Fort Worth Texas and broke his neck and will never walk again. His girlfriend was with him at the rodeo and stayed with him while he was in the hospital. Hear say he told her if she wanted to move on he would understand. She didn’t leave and they married and later built a very successful bucking bull ranch in North Carolina. His wife can be seen behind the chutes at rodeos working with their bulls. Being paralyzed he can’t do anything and probably requires constant care. What a woman that would take on all of that. His name is Jerome Davis and there are numerous videos on CZcams about him if you care to look it up. So the bottom line is sickness and health problems can occur at any age. It could result from a car accident and not in just dangerous sports.
This old lady says ABSOLUTELY NOT. I’ve spent quite enough of my life taking care of others, thank you very much. As for myself, I’ll take my chances. I wouldn’t marry to gain a caretaker any more than I’d marry for money.
@@Mrs.TJTaylor I knew an old lady like yourself that felt the same way. Her family lived out of state and she lived alone. She died in her sleep and it was almost 2 weeks before they found her. Her body had swollen up and had bursted. The decomposition was so bad they never did get the smell out of that house. They finally tore it down. I say if you’ve got the looks and sex appeal hook a man and marry him. Anything is better than dying alone and they don’t find your body for days. Had a cousin that lived alone. He live out in the country and they found him dead at 64 years old in back of his house. Animals had gotten to him and ate his face and fingers off. The old saying is you marry 3 times. The first time for love the second time for money and the third time for companionship.
I find it amazing that she could be so heartless, after having lived a good life with him, one would think that she had the slightest remorse at seeing him so sick, to act the way she did. Pure psychopathic and evil old lady.
It would of been s much easier to have had him admitted to a care facility where they could of taken care of him and she could of lived her life as she pleased,
murder us never the answer.
That would cost money she most likely wanted for herself.
@@willshedo Maybe they didn't have so much money. In my country placing someone into a nursing home costs between one and a half or two average month wages per month. I don't think it's cheaper in England - it is an expensive country.
If she put him in a home she couldn’t collect death benefits
As if she had the money
@@FC-hj9ub she had the money, at the least his insurance would of paid for his care.
Se got TWO years for killing him - and served ONE! One year in prison for murder... It's beyond comprehension.
His life was worth 365 days, give or take. Was the thinking "ah, he was old and close to death anyway"?
If so, that's a sick way to think for a society.
It's because she's a woman who lives in a very liberal society.
I know. It's appalling. Clearly, there's no justice in their "justice" system.
Unbelievable right!! It's unimaginable IMHO 🤬
Cuz it’s all about the Benjamins…old ppl are a burden on the state
Well there was an old lady who threw her elderly husband out a tenth floor window when she discovered his infidelity. When the judge asked her why she said she figured if he could **** he could fly
🤭😂😂
That's too funny !!! 🤣🤣🤣
😆😅 savage lol. You know what they say about women who are scorned.
For real??holy shit. Sounds like something id do lol
There is a saying among the older man generation. Don’t buy anything that f****, flies or floats. Just rent them and let someone else own them.
Definitely makes me wonder how she was treating this man while he was alive, and she was "caring" for him. If this much... resentment, had built up, I find it hard to believe it all came out at once in this single moment. Nah, my guts telling me this man probably had a rough last couple of years of his life, and it wasn't entirely due to his illnesses. Just seems like a really selfish act, seeing how there were so many other roads that could've been taken by her. Don't think justice was really served in this one ☹️
@nimbleneedle Exactly! I was shocked when they went with that sort of charge! She demonstrated quite well her brain was working at a lot better capacity than some others I've seen charged with just flat out premeditated murder. Diminished capacity my ass! And it was her own family that got her caught. To me, I think that definitely speaks to something with what type of mother/person she might have been. It always turns my stomach when people are treated differently in the court system, be it because of their looks, sex, and in this case age, when they've committed the exact same crimes as others have, that have got way more harsher sentences. She's a cold blooded killer, little granny facade or not.
She married him for a convenient life and couldn’t bear it when it stopped!! The fact that she blamed two innocent men, is pure evil!!! 😡
@@sonjatait4089 that's definitely what it appears. I don't see how she could've done what she did, if there was never genuine love there. It's just sad.
Why would anyone do a burglary in white trousers?! What a stupid accusation.
Also, why don’t murderers get rid of the murder weapon??? She literally got away with murder.
Ya i was listening to tht too. So weird. She making up the story. Stupid of her. Shes not a good actress.
And not only that, she comprised their freedom. If they did not have an alibi, they would have been done for, whilst she sits on easy street. Very deceptive.
36:00 - all the excuses. She pre-planned the murder. She blamed two innocent men for it. She tried a different story, when the first one fell flat. She was willing to let the community and her family think that Eric had committed suicide.
She hated this man.
The world is full of people who, when you're fit and well, like you, who are so friendly, and seem so genuine and very good natured, but become completely different people and so distant, if not, outright enemies, when you get weaker, when things are not going well for you, when you are in need.
it may seem like that, but sometimes help and good advice was offered and not followed. True love is hard to find.
I wondered how her first husband really died?
OMG same thoughts😂
He had a bad fall down the stairs
Mmmmmm?????
@@flowersofthefield340 Was he pushed down?
Yes makes you wonder 🤔
There was no justice at all. The poor man's life was worthless to the judiciary.
Now one is left with the feeling that perhaps she had made his life a misery, despite the exterior impressions from neighbours, etc.
Men seldom admit beeing abused by their wife's or partners.
RIP to the victim.
Depression, age and gender are no excuse for a cold blooded murder, accusing innocent people without remorse. Justice would have been life in prison.
The British "justice" system is horrific.
I find it the other way giving this 81 years old woman only got ONE year in prison for killing her husband. Justice system. how good was that? Not good enough is the answer. shame on the British Justice system and the Judge in this case.
So is the South .African side of it.
Ours here in America isn't much better.
No, it isn't. This is an exception.
South Africa is not much better !!
If she had only asked the family for help with his care, this murder may have actually been prevented. Speaking as one who has been a caregiver multiple times, the family should have volunteered to help with his care. RIP, brave soldier!
When is it not a close and peaceful community in a crime doc?
A community where something like this NEVER HAPPENS🙈😖😅
Right? I need to look up a community where a murder just occurred and move there, cause I need some peace.
Because audiences are attracted to "unusual" events. Big cities have murders on a regular basis. That's less interesting to most people than a murder which took place in a quiet little "that could never happen here" small town
Absolutely. The community is always close knit. The victim is always the greatest person in the world who is loved by everyone even if they didn't ever actually meet them. Everyone is always shocked ect. ect. These things are always very formulaic if nothing else.
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Don't underestimate elderly English women. My grandmother was 89 years old in a wheelchair due to polio, and we got a call from the nursing home saying they called the cops on her for punching a guy. So we get there and there's grandma in her little shawl looking so sweet with the cops next to her wheelchair. I asked her what happened and she goes "well I've told him before not to touch me, but everytime he rolls passed me he whacks my arm. So I warned him if you touch me again I'm going to punch you in your face. And I did." They might look sweet and innocent but that's just because they're good at hiding.
Hey, I hope I'd be that spunky if I make it to 89 😂
Small ,neat, tidy, and deadly as hell ! She made him suffer dearly at her hands while she took his life away. She showed no mercy and should of received none.
If that was a young man who was going through depression there wouldn’t be the same latitude & understanding & sympathy given.
I think she got pissed off because her husband was infirmed & useless to her & she up & killed him. Age should not matter when it comes to the callousness of this.
Killing a man who was physically failing. ..indeed. And a veteran at that.
A bash in the face & a dishonour to the Hingston family.
Pitiful example of justice to be sure.
I think the fact that she purposely tried to frame 2 innocent people puts down all claims of depression and exhaustion. Imagine if they had not had an alibi, 2 innocents would be in jail with life sentences. She stabbed her companion, watched him die, set up a stage, blamed someone else and went on TV giving a stellar performance. She's an evil witch, nothing more, nothing less.
A young guy would have been SLAMMED with 20 or so year in England, from what I've seen of their justice system. And that would be a light sentence for murdering a sick old man.
They would have been crucified in the press and beaten in prison.
She was a sick #### and too bad she didn't die in prison. She didn't deserve freedom again.
Can't get enough of crime shows. I love interrogations too.
The relationship psychologist tallking about people she hadn't even met! Smh. At times she sounded stupid too. I mean, the 'power dynamic' in the marriage changed because one has to look after the other? And that makes murder ok? What's her point and really why is her input necessary? Did the producers think we viewers are too stupid to figure things out?!
It's a spit in the face for a man who risked his life for a country that thought his life was worth zilch.
And not too many of those guys lived. The life span expectancy for a pilot in the RAF during WWII at one point was like 3 weeks.
That was a ridiculously lenient sentence for such an horrendous crime. Age doesn't make any difference. She was a selfish, cold, calculating person who, regardless of mitigating stress, deserved a lot harder sentence.
Did the children pool together money to get the elderly man into a nursing home? or get a home nurse? I find it hard to believe they expected a 80+ year old woman to be a full time carer for her elderly husband? I'm not excusing murder at all, what she did was terribly wrong, but I'm just wondering if these situations can be avoided?
care giver's fatigue is real
@silverysnow
Those are good questions and good points.
As a nurse, I know how exhausting caring for others can be let alone for a 81 year old woman. However, her actions were heinous. She needed to ask for help. RIP sweet man.
A very valid question
She may not have wanted help
And on top of it all trying to blame Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.
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I thought common police knowledge is that when a murder has been committed the partner or spouse are suspect number one. When single, it's their child/children or other family members. The age of the possible suspect shouldn't be a way to gauge if that theory an option or not. Also the clear giveaway is, why is she still alive when a. the burglar doesn't want to leave witnesses(in the first portrayal the police gave of the murder) and b. when a burglar/murderer kills a bedridden, obviously no threat posing person but doesn't touch a healthy 81 year old woman who is perfectly mobile and is of good physical strength despite her age. An competent police officer or even an avid crime detective lover could have easily solved the case that very saturday morning when Eric was murdered.
Yes but in this case I don't think they wanted to believe it because of her age, but age is just a number.
Good points.
Very valid points, but all that logic is eclipsed by our strong bias to age, our evolutionary programmed Genes that dictate our parents and grand parents must be flawless, and are so wise, knowledgeable and richly experienced as to committ such mad, bad crimes.
Why was an 81 year old woman caretaking a disabled old man?! That is a huge job for even a young person! His children should have hired a caretaker to come in for that job. I put a lot of blàme on his son, who did not even observe that she was overwhelmed!
Look at her with squinty eyes and remove 50 years. Mean and cruel. Just because someone is old doesn't make them nice. If evil when young, still evil when old.
She could've divorced him. His relatives and hers would've understood, I am sure. But what she did they will never understand and accept.
She'd lost much money, though.
Isn't there homes where people who needs constant care can be staying regularly for shorter periods? So their familymembers can have some relief?
@@johannas.l.brushane2518 Yes Johanna there is a magical home available for old sick people. No one would ever leave an 80 year old woman alone to manage a home and the complete care of a large old man who could do nothing for himself. All the old woman had to do was take this sick man to the magical home. And instead that nasty evil old woman killed him.
No they wouldn't have understood. She would have been seen is cold and deserting him. But so what? That doesn't mean you kill the guy.
When killers get a slap on the wrist. The British “(in)justice” system is deplorable.
There are many countries where it's a lot worse.
And so what. Nevertheless it's deplorable
evil comes in different forms, and this woman is one of them.
Personally I would have liked Audrey Hingston placed into a 24/7 lockup facility for elderly people who have dementia/alzheimers disease, or have committed a serious crime such as murder, etc. That way justice would have been served correctly.
To be a carer at that age would have been so hard - but it was tainted with selfishness 😥
If it is too hard, then don't do it. You don't have to murder anyone. Just leave.
@@harpharpharpharp1971 yeah right? disgusting the people trying to defend the ladys actions, you can always just leave, how do you justify in your head that murder is a better option than divorce
After serving only 1 year, after she got she still had quite a few year to socialize. She’s a real old rotter. Eric, RIP 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Been having depression for as long as I remember & the thoughts of suicide have been in my mind frequently but I'd never take anybody's life
It seems like everyone feels more sorry for her than the husband she murdered.
Infact good for her it was selfdefense
@@feministliberation9640
Defending from taking care of her sick husband ? She could have walked out !
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And she would have been released after only one Year.
There is 50% remission in the UK on prison sentences.
I normally would be sympathetic to a lady that was so stressed caring, as I know from my own parents how draining that can be.
But I can't forgive her for being so calculating and cold in particular her willingness to throw the two young men under the bus to save her own skin, and she did no matter what her age, deserve more than a two year term, that wasn't any sort of justice.
Throwing those two men under the bus gets to me. I wonder how she came about that those were the two she would blame. Thank God they went to the police, had they left the area, they would have been in jail for sure.
@@maryelizabeth6797 Well said I totally agree with you.
It does not sit well at all, while anyone can sympathise with the stress of a carer.
What she did after the fact was calculating and unforgivable.
Did “in sickness and in health” mean nothing to this cruel, devious and selfish old bag? Also, that cutlery drawer is a disgrace!
Haha! Agreed! ;)
Ahahahahah thanks mate
The evil can be seen in this woman Audrey. I haven't even finished watching this documentary and I know she murdered her dear husband Eric. Its written all over her face. Evil cannot be hidden.
Murder is murder, at whatever age or “state” in which it is committed. Anyone in their 80s, or far younger for that matter, is as likely to attempt and/or succeed at such a merciless killing of a “loved one”, delighted/“grateful” to the injustice of “depression” as an “excuse” to get off far more easily than their victim, if precedents are set being “depressed” is an excuse for murder. It’s not enough that a killer is considered a “low threat risk”. Audrey’s victim got no justice without a longer sentence.
I wouldn’t want you on a jury. You haven’t a clue what she may have endured. Perhaps she was evil or perhaps she was mentally unstable. We don’t know so we shouldn’t judge.
Funny, I managed a group home for 14 years and have been punched, spit on and screamed at too many times to count but I never stabbed any of my clients to death. Pure sociopath who demanded life be all about her.. hence the press conference. #fryinhell
Wait a second, if she had her son sharpen the knife 2 weeks before, she could have gone to the doctor and pretended to be depressed only 2 months before that as a defense. Depression doesn't make you kill. Psychopathy does. One can be an 81 year old psychopath! Just look what she did to her husband, her son and the two innocent boys she pinned the murder on.
oh dear, we humans are some species...
Whenever I see these press conferences I can always tell if someone is guilty because they don’t look up toward the crowd, they look down and they keep looking down and it just becomes obvious that they’re hiding something.
She was too old to be caring full time for a sick man. She couldn't cope anymore. It seemed the only way out for her. She was depressed......
One year! What an insult to the victim and his family.
A wife should take care of her husband, same as husband should take care of his wife
Wow. I am providing in home care for one terminally ill Mother and an elderly Uncle with serious health problems of his own. It is round the clock and exhausting. Four years today.I work hard to cultivate the inner strength and outside support systems required. Caregiving is no joke. Sad story.
We can go way overboard here in the U. S. (don't get me started), but two years?! 😳 for murder?!!! 🤦🏾♀️
I understand the severity of the crime, but it has me wondering what sort of financial situation, and what kind of medical and mental supports are available to people in their situation? Maybe, at her advanced age and diminished physical ability, maybe she just couldn’t physically take care of the man, but didn’t have any support system to help her. She may have seen it as the only way to take the burden off of herself. Yes, it is unbelievably wrong, but what if she just couldn’t physically do it anymore, and she couldn’t afford to place him in a facility that could take care of him, where she couldn’t? She was a tiny, frail, woman trying to care for a man who was clearly unable to care for himself. Maybe there was a systemic problem here. It is something worth examining, the whole thing is very sad.
It would be interesting to find out about her past life from childhood.
I was wondering how her 1st husband died.
@@cuccicucci4480 great question! In particular with all of the time spent discussing Audrey's or a woman like her and our collective ideals. Her unlikelyness as a suspect, if she was 40, & residing in the NY, in the USA such as myself they would have had her narrowed down to the only suspect by dinner time.Tried, convicted and sentenced to life w/ no parole by bed time.
@@chefbetsy7680 it's well beyond a "collective ideal". The facts/statistics prove the unlikelihood of someone her age committing such a crime. A 40 year old woman living most anywhere is a far more likely suspect.
It's not a social construct.
Maybe she wants another BF but couldn't do it coz she was tied up.
@@cuccicucci4480 Same here. 🤔
Sad, sad story. My hero from all this was Audreys son. That would have been the hardest thing to do. My hat goes off to him.
#### him and his sick #### mother.
I think her light sentence is also because of the fact that her son is a retired police sergeant.
plea deal maybe?
This episode is forever going to make me look at little old ladies like maybe there not so sweet after all LOL.
She knew exactly what she was doing. She planned it, executed it and covered it up. She continued to cover it up by giving detailed descriptions of two innocent men as the intruders. She had ZERO diminished capacity; she was very capable. What was her diminishment? Her depression? No, this killer got away with murder and probably slept just fine every night till the day she died, 12 years of freedom later. Terrible "justice."
I have been depressed because of my husband's death from cancer complications, let me add. Murder because of depression? That is unbelievable. Murder? Was never even was a thought.
Diminished responsibility? She had the knife sharpened the week before. She attacked him and left him dying while she ransacked their home. She then accused two innocent men. When the heat is on her, she "attempted" suicide and lied about her husband committing suicide. Diminished? More like a monster in an old lady's clothing. She could have just divorced him if she couldn't handle the "for worse" part of the marriage vows. And I don't understand why everything was so rushed and why his family was not informed of the real situation before she was sentenced. It's sickening. I wonder how her first husband died?
very suspicious, I wonder if it was because her son was a cop?
A very selfish old lady who knew exactly what she was doing and her mind was as sharp as the knife she used. And she lived for another 12yrs after her release! Pfffttt...
Once again, if the roles were reversed, the old man would've got much more than 2 years for a manslaughter charge. The old woman wasn't even crying when she gave her statement. She must've gone to the same acting school as amber turd.
What a load of hog-wash. Why in the hell should she only spend one year in jail for taking a life? Because she’s old? Diminished responsibility my ass, all sorts of people struggle with depression but they don’t go killing people.
The justice system in this case was a big fat joke!!
Rest In Peace ☮️ dear Eric ✨🦋✨
She must have had a sense of feeling sorry for herself and her husband who was sick, losing his indepency and dignity. It wont have been happened if the government extend their hands to support the elderly couple such as putting them to a community where they are able to maintain a quality of life. So sad...
And I suppose the longest prison-held non-convicted of any crime must be Julian Assange.
Where was he in prsion before being convicted, and for how long?
@@pearlbonnie1369 He was never convicted.
Nooooooooo, Look at the prisoners in Guantanamo bay.
@@keithbentley6081 True-true but I really don't think they were held as long as Julian Assange. Or?
Did the family offer to help at all? After she was 81 It is extremely hard work to be a carer
And what about the fact that she tried to incriminate two innocent people? Nice person. Nice Justice
Gees she manipulated the justice system. It was premediated she saw 2 blokes an her plan begun. Two years and only did one, are they serious and she still lived another12 years... She was a dam good actor.
The title though. “Frail Old Lady” 🤣🤣🤣
It’s quite fascinating that we tend to think that the elderly are sweet, delicate etc. It couldn’t be further than the truth. Some people never evolve to any sort of enlightened way of life. They met later in life and she must have known the high probability of either one of them having to look after the other as the years went bye. Her age is NO excuse for her killing her husband and even less that she lied so well about what happened. She was a killer plain and simple.
Basically the explanation this vid is putting forward is that this old woman , didn’t get the life she wanted, so she viciously got rid of her husband. She very probably set the scene of a burglary while the unfortunate man is lying on the bedroom floor dying from she having stabbed him.
Many suffer from depression; that is hardly a mitigating circumstance, we can all get depressed because we can’t have what we want. Diminished responsibility why?
There was no sense of her being diminished in any way when she made an appeal fir help to find the me who killed her husband and/or when she set the scene in the flat.
"it couldn't be further from the truth" in her case. To make that a blanket statement is pretty silly.
@@markmike7933 Really. Why silly? Why further than the truth?
Poor guy. He had accomplished so much in his life,..was married to his first wife, then widowed and lonely. He thought he found love again,..only to be killed by the second wife. You can bet that his second wife was a very selfish woman. So sad.
THE sentence makes me sick! A cunning old witch got only 2yrs. but served just 1 and lived for another 12.