- [dramatic music] - [birds chirping]
[Narrator] A family movie night about to begin,
a sudden interruption.
I saw two shadows coming up the driveway.
There was just helicopters, police, ambulances.
[sirens wailing]
It was just literally crazy.
[Narrator] A pleasant English scene ended by violence,
with the attacker making a movie of his own.
Marian took out his mobile phone and filmed it.
[Narrator] Then a man goes on the run.
What has Marian Caliman done to Faye?
[Fran] She was besotted with him.
She was just... you could just see it in her eyes
like she'd got that partner that she'd always wanted.
[Narrator] He was her partner, her lover,
and whether she lived or died was suddenly in his hands.
[intense music]
[heart beating]
[slow music]
Faye Williams, a young woman with a lot going for her,
and a lot of friends who shared the same view of Faye.
[Fran] Just stunning, but she didn't know it.
She never looked at herself and thought, "Look at me,"
and she would always say how beautiful her friends looked.
She was really, really pretty. She was beautiful.
She had a beautiful soul and a beautiful appearance.
She was lovely.
[Narrator] A character, too.
We always used to call her No Filter Faye
because she just comes out with things
that just roll off the tongue,
and she was just so funny with it.
She wouldn't even know what she was gonna say,
it just rolled out sometimes, yeah, to the wrong people,
but she never meant any harm by it.
She was just so fun.
We called her Fairy... [laughs] Fairy Faye
'cause Faye in Latin means fairy, so...
We also had another one as well for her,
which was Firecracker.
So... [laughs] But yeah, she was rolled into one.
She was that fairy firecracker.
[Narrator] Faye's mom, Stella.
We came as a package, you know,
"This is me, this is my mom."
And we was more like sisters, you know,
and we'd go out, and I'm a lot older obviously,
but they'd say, yeah, it's not mom and daughter,
it's sisters, you know?
And that's how our relationship was.
[Narrator] By 23, Faye had become a mother
of two young girls and worked hard to support her family.
She became a trainee hairdresser,
and she would work in the salon weekends
and learn the trade.
She didn't carry on with it later on.
She became a care worker in the old people's home,
and it was something that she enjoyed at the time.
[Narrator] With a relationship that had not worked behind her,
by 2013, Faye told friends she was looking
for someone to share her life with.
She always wanted to settle down,
have her kids and marriage.
She wanted that life.
As much as she liked being with her friends and that,
but they were family as well.
So, she just wanted that fairy tale, I think,
and she did search for that.
[Narrator] Her search paid off when she fell for a handsome, eligible bachelor.
Faye wanted her friends to approve of him.
[Clare] Marian Caliman was a Romanian man.
And in 2013, he met Faye in the pub.
He walked her home, he was a real gentleman,
and she fell for him pretty much straight away.
She told me she'd met him on a night out,
and she said she really liked him.
[Narrator] 27-year-old Romanian national,
Marian Caliman, was known to his friends as Mario.
He worked as a laborer on building sites
around the Nottingham area.
He was very not... he wasn't very sociable
around Faye's friends.
You never really got much of a conversation out of him.
He didn't really say much when I first met him.
Quiet, that's how I thought he was, just a quiet person.
Maybe it was because he was... had a different language. I don't know.
So, I just thought, seems all right.
There was barriers, like if you could get a, "Hi,"
and, "Bye," out of him and, "Are you okay?" and stuff like that.
But that was as little as what it was.
Even if he could speak fluent English,
he was very... it was just short.
When you look at the beginning of their relationship,
there was a communication issue,
there was a language barrier.
Marian's language was improving,
getting better and better, I guess, every day,
and one of the best ways to learn a language
is to be in a relationship with somebody
and to converse with them.
But from the very, very beginning,
Faye was sort of projecting something onto this
that maybe wasn't there.
She was desperate for a relationship that worked.
She'd come through one that hadn't.
She was desperate for a successful relationship.
[Narrator] Friends became aware that the relationship
showed what they hoped were teething troubles.
See, it was very up and down
at the beginning of their relationship.
They obviously had a few issues.
But then she put a good front on
to make everything seem perfect. She was good at that.
When you first get with people,
you've got exes, and things can be very turbulent anyway.
But I do know that she told me he was involved with his ex,
and she found messages and things like that.
And I think she was just always worried
that he was gonna go back there.
The fact that there was a bit of a problem
in terms of his emotional ties to his ex-girlfriend,
or some sort of connection to his ex-girlfriend,
it's not the ideal start to a new relationship,
especially the relationship that Faye wanted this to be,
to have one of the people in that relationship
still in some way connected to the person
that mattered to them in the past.
[Narrator] It was not Marian's material success
that attracted Faye to him.
Marian, at that point, was living in effectively a squat.
[Narrator] But Faye stuck at it.
She wanted love in her life.
She was desperate for a relationship that worked.
She'd come through one that hadn't.
She was desperate for a successful relationship.
She was kind of looking for a father for her children.
And therefore, anything that Marian did that wasn't negative
was taken to be an enormous positive.
After they'd been together for a few months,
Faye wanted her mom, Stella,
to meet this new man in her life.
[Narrator] If mother really does know best,
Faye had a job on her hands.
I didn't want to meet him, you know?
Apparently, there'd been some arguments at a flat
where he was bunking down with his friends,
and there must've been about eight people
in this small flat.
And they was sleeping on the mattresses and things.
And I'm thinking, well, that's not something
I want my daughter to be associated with.
Whether they were paying rent or not,
the conditions in which they were living
certainly weren't legal,
because he was living in a small property
with a couple of rooms with a whole lot of other Romanians,
one assumes like him, Romanian builders, Romanian laborers.
So, he was living in a sort of situation
that I'm sure was the kind of thing he wanted to get out of.
So I kept my distance, and I was making excuses.
I'm busy, I'm working.
And she'd say, "We're having a barbecue.
Can you come round?"
And I'm on night shift, I can't do it,
so I got out of it pretty well.
Stella wasn't quite as keen on Caliman
as her daughter was.
She felt that perhaps he was a little too good to be true,
worried that he was gonna take advantage of her daughter,
who had a really good nature
and perhaps saw the best in everybody.
But I couldn't turn and say to her,
"You're not seeing him," because if I did,
she would have gone the opposite way and done it anyway.
Faye was in a different scenario.
She was an attractive proposition to Marian,
not just as an attractive woman,
but as a woman of substance,
a woman who had things around her.
She had assets, she had a family.
She was besotted with him.
She was just... you could just see it in her eyes,
like she'd got that partner that she'd always wanted.
And he wasn't too much, and she wasn't too much for him,
and you could just see the connection between them.
There was a connection between them. She did love him.
She wanted the fairy tale,
and she tried to have that fairy tale.
It had not worked, but she was still looking
for that fairy tale,
and Marian offered it to her.
[Narrator] Faye's mom, Stella, felt she had to get behind
her daughter's chosen man.
They was talking about taking things further
and I thought, "Well, I better meet him."
He made a huge, huge effort with her family,
made an enormous effort with her mother.
So, they have this barbecue,
and I went round and I met him.
And he was nothing what I expected, you know?
And I thought, "Well, if it's gonna be serious,
I need to now step up my game and be there."
He would be the wonderful prospective son-in-law.
[Stella] I went round, we had a good night.
He was very polite, very, well, charming, really.
Nothing was too much problem, too much trouble for me.
He kissed me on the cheek, and "Hello, how are you?"
Yeah, it was very, very pleasant,
and he made it his mission to make me like him.
He'd bring chocolates, he'd brings flowers.
And I thought, "Oh, that's quite nice."
Chocolates and flowers for a lady,
it's, you know, very nice.
And that's how he got his feet under the table, so to speak.
And then he'd do, like, little odd jobs for us,
and he tiled my kitchen when I had a new fitted kitchen.
He did all the tiling.
And he was good with construction,
so he did laminate flooring. He painted for me.
And I'd say, "Oh, let me give you something."
"Oh, no, no, no, this is fine."
But what is interesting is he made
no such effort with her friends.
He wouldn't go to any of their events that they organized together.
He'd reject invitations.
He made no effort at all with her friends.
[Narrator] But Faye would not be put off,
and she did make an effort,
determined to make a go of it with Marian Caliman.
What price would she pay?
From 2015 onwards, things seem to deteriorate.
She told me that he'd hit her once.
She kept everything very quiet...
apart from a bruise that I found on her chest area.
She said she'd walked into a cupboard.
[Narrator] Was Marian Caliman a Prince Charming
or a killer in the making?
2016, he got drunk and took her by the hair
and threw her down the stairs.
I mean, this was escalating quickly.
- [birds chirping] - [slow dramatic music]
[Narrator] In 2014, Faye got pregnant.
It had been a whirlwind romance,
which culminated in a proposal from Caliman.
Psychologist and relationship expert,
Dr. Roberta Babb, has analyzed Faye's story.
Having a family was extremely important to her.
She had met Marian, they'd come together,
they had a child together.
And for her, she felt her life was coming together.
She was ready to working towards having the family,
the life that she always wanted,
one that was of her dreams.
In 2015, the couple married.
It was an incredible day,
and Stella was finally happy that her daughter, Faye,
had got the man of her dreams.
She was a lace dress, very, very flattering,
beautiful hairstyle, makeup was done.
And it was the first time that she'd been
and had her hair done professionally.
Updo is what she called them,
and her makeup and her nails.
She'd had her nails done before,
but the makeup part of it was the first time
that she'd really planned something for her.
So, she took pleasure on the day and time.
Certainly, I mean, she looked beautiful.
[Narrator] A magical moment in Faye's life,
but friends noticed that the behavior
of the Prince Charming in her life changed.
Her phone would never stop going.
When she walked in once, she picked up her phone,
and she had to FaceTime him to prove
that she was in our house and not elsewhere.
From 2015 onwards, things seem to deteriorate.
And really, the deterioration occurred
when they had their first child.
Now you've got to wonder why it was that Marian
was so keen on having the first child
or having a child in this relationship.
There are already two children,
of course they're not his,
but there are two stepchildren there.
Now, we know why Faye was so keen to have the child,
because Faye was desperate for the idyllic family life.
That was what she lived for.
For Marian, you have to wonder perhaps,
was this the final tie he needed?
Was this the final knot on the relationship,
the final way of saying, "I've got you now.
You can't walk away?"
Was that why he was so keen?
[Narrator] Faye's fairy tale had been short lived.
It didn't come to light at first.
It was just snippets of things.
It wasn't the whole package straight away.
It was he'd control her
over how many smokes that she'd had.
So they'd visit, and she'd say,
"I'm just gonna go out for a smoke.
Can I have a smoke?"
"Oh, no, you've had enough."
And she's, "They're mine, I bought them."
"No, you're not having one."
And I didn't like that.
[Narrator] All of her friends
suddenly had a story to tell.
Mario was walking down the street,
and she pulled over and she says, "I'm just nipping out."
And he says, "What about my dinner?"
And she was like, "You'll have to sort yourself out
'cause I'm going out."
And he said something in Romanian.
She knew what it was.
And he spat in her face.
And you can imagine the shock of that.
If you see a man doing that to a woman,
a man doing that to a man even,
but a man doing that to a woman, and a woman he loves.
[Fran] She literally leant over in front of me
into the glove box, grabbed some tissues, wiped her face...
wound her window up, and we drove off.
And it was like nothing had happened.
And then I was like, "What, why?
Why has he just done that?"
And she was just like, "Oh, let's just forget it.
Let's just enjoy our night out,"
and it just got brushed under the carpet.
This isn't uncommon when we see people
who have been victims of domestic violence.
There's a real sense of shame
that this can be happening to someone.
And then that's just the start.
He'd hit her, blacked her eye.
There was an occasion where she turned up
with a large foot bruise
very, very, very visible on her body.
She said she'd walked into a cupboard.
Didn't know really a lot.
She kept that away from me.
Which now looking at it...
if she was here now, I would be saying...
"You don't do that."
And then in 2016, it's only a year after they married,
2016, he got drunk and took her by the hair
and threw her down the stairs.
I mean, this was escalating quickly.
[Narrator] But Faye would not complain.
She'd always try and see a reason behind it.
So, I don't know, if they'd fell out,
she'd say, "Well, yeah, but I done that."
She would make an excuse up
to cover up something that he has done.
And no matter how many times you say to someone,
"No, it's not," they don't see that,
you don't see it yourself, so...
But yeah, she did used to blame herself a lot.
Her light had just been dimmed.
[Stella] She had lost so much weight.
She wasn't very big in the first place,
but you could tell she was drawn, she wasn't herself.
She was very quiet.
She didn't really want to come and visit,
but in the other hand she did,
but she was like trying to fight it.
And I knew something was wrong.
[Narrator] Faye appeared not to see the danger she was in,
kept what was happening from her mom.
When you look at what Faye was going through,
and when you look at what Faye wasn't willing to tell,
I mean, there are some indications when you look back,
there are some things people noticed,
because not everything could be kept a secret.
But ultimately, what you're seeing
is the tip of the iceberg.
Well, I mean, you're seeing the stuff she can't hide.
So what is she hiding?
She's willing to hide all of this different abuse
that she's suffering, she's willing to hide the injuries.
God knows what kind of emotional abuse,
what kind of psychological abuse
that she's not disclosing.
When someone is in a domestically violent relationship,
it's really, really difficult to leave.
The incidents can be really, really damaging,
they can be really, really violent.
But ultimately, the person believes
their partner can change.
This cycle of violence, forgiveness, coming back
is actually quite common.
It can be really difficult to leave a violent relationship.
[Narrator] Christmas, 2016, more violence.
It was then that Caliman threw Faye down the stairs.
After he threw her down the stairs at Christmas,
and that was the first big one.
That was the first one that everyone knew about.
And that did lead to a very, very short separation,
but literally a separation of about 24 hours.
Because after Christmas,
but still within the Christmas period,
she gets a message, and the message is, "I miss my baby."
Whether or not that's a reference to her
or whether or not it's a reference to the new child, who knows?
But the point is she is being emotionally manipulated.
Maybe it's the version of, "I'm sorry, I love you."
Maybe it's the version of,
"We need to keep our family together."
Whichever one it is, it is exactly what we see
in these kinds of cases.
It's what happens again and again and again.
And it's tragic that, like so many other women,
Faye took that as a reason to go back.
[Kayleigh] He knew how much Christmas was.
To her, it meant a lot.
Especially her girls waking up
on Christmas morning was everything.
And he managed to steal that from her
because he'd put her through that.
[Narrator] Weeks later, a revelation.
Fran accessed her bank account.
It was not a pretty sight.
[Tony] He was earning his living.
Faye was also working as much as she could,
and she was paying for everything, absolutely everything.
He never paid a penny into the household,
so the bills were racking up.
But he was working, but he never gave her
a penny for anything.
So she was getting more unhappy and unhappy.
As time went on, she was just going into a bigger hole.
The weight started dropping off her,
and yeah, it looks like it just spiraled out into nothing.
And I said to her, I says, "I'm a bit worried about you."
And I said, "You need to tell me what's happening."
So, she said she'd got debts, household debts,
and a Barclay card that belonged to him and catalogs.
[Narrator] Faye suffered another attack, too.
There was certainly an escalation
in terms of the publicly noticeable injuries.
At that time, Faye turned up at her mother's house
with black strangulation marks around her neck.
That really is a huge step forward,
even from the throwing down the stairs.
[Narrator] The burly builder had spat at her
at point blank range,
pushed the diminutive Faye down the stairs, throttled her.
She had for the first time told him
that she would leave him, only to relent.
Marian Caliman was more dangerous than ever before.
There is always a trigger.
There was just helicopters, police, ambulances.
It was just literally crazy.
[Narrator] In a peaceful English village,
the behavior of a violent man was spiraling out of control.
And then he said, "I think you better sit down."
[Narrator] Despite everything, Faye seemed unwilling
or unable to give up on the love in her life.
After all, he would always say sorry.
"I'm sorry." We hear it all the time.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry,
I'll be a better man."
- [birds chirping] - [slow dramatic music]
[Narrator] After two years of Marian Caliman's
abusive behavior, Faye decided
she could put up with him no longer,
and told him to leave the couple's shared home.
They split up, but Faye used to always come to ours.
Every weekend, she'd be there.
She always used to come over, while he was still there,
'cause again, she's not the type of person
to just kick someone on their knees.
She wouldn't leave you like that,
so she tried to give him time to sort something out.
[Narrator] Faye did, though, appear much happier.
Following the split in March 2018,
Faye kind of got her life together.
She got a job in telesales
and was by all accounts doing actually quite well.
And Marian Caliman may have struggled with this.
He may have found it difficult to see Faye
getting on without him and actually making something
of her life while he was in a very
potentially different position.
It seemed that she was going to take her children
and build a new life for herself.
She went and got herself a new job, a better paying job.
It was her dream job. She was really loving it.
And it gave her that bit of a future, you know,
and a sense of independence.
Yeah, she really did enjoy it. She flourished.
We went out for a few drinks with friends.
It was actually really a good night, to be fair. [laughs]
But it was nice to have her for one night.
She turned her phone off, that was it,
and she enjoyed herself.
She didn't have that pressure on her back.
I noticed change in her,
because she was coming out a lot more.
I'd see her, she'd be with other friends,
start socializing more, and got this new job.
I thought, "You know what, she's doing really well.
"I'm really, really happy for her."
Well, we know that Marian Caliman
wasn't overly happy with Faye moving on,
and he made it extremely difficult for her at times.
[Narrator] In fact, Caliman was far
from out of Faye's life, bombarding her with messages.
So we all went round for the Grand National, she came around.
She was very quiet that day.
Like I said, she's not a quiet person.
But, he again, that's when he'd been sending her messages.
The things he must have been saying, they'd just got to her...
and she didn't really say much all night.
And normally she'd tell me, we'd confide in each other with everything,
but she didn't say anything.
And now I look back, there's obviously more to that
and I just didn't pick up on it.
I didn't realize that he was, like, pestering her as such.
So she was really, really going through it,
but she just put a brave face on all the time.
He just couldn't let it go. He couldn't let her go.
[Narrator] Six weeks after Faye Caliman
had split from the abusive Marian, her mother, Stella,
unaware of the extent of her daughter's ordeal,
wanted to encourage the couple to remain friends.
She didn't tell me everything what was going off, you see,
so I was still under the illusion and under his charm.
[Narrator] A big event was coming up,
which Stella thought offered an opportunity.
[dramatic music]
My big birthday was, yeah, 5th of May.
We was going to fly out to Fuerteventura,
and there was going to be me and my partner,
there was going to be Faye, Mario, and the three girls.
Although they'd split up by that time,
he was still part of it.
And I said, "Would he still like to come?"
He said, "Yes," so he was still down to come.
And I thought, "Well, at least, if we get away,
"it's beautiful in Fuerteventura, it's sunny,
"they can go for a walk on the beach.
"I can have the girls.
"They can have a romantic meal wherever they like,
and try and reconcile everything."
[Narrator] Whilst Stella focused on the holiday,
Faye struggled to balance
her work commitments with childcare.
Marian made it quite difficult for Faye Caliman
to actually continue to do the things she wanted to.
He would often say that he wouldn't look
after their daughter unless she got back with him,
which put her in a very difficult position
in terms of managing her new job
and also the demands of childcare.
[Narrator] On the 28th of April,
Stella had just finished her shift
and was returning home for a relaxing evening
and to see her daughter.
Me and my partner was planning a movie.
Faye was at work, and she was coming round
to collect some bikinis and towels
and things that I'd collected for the holiday
for the following Saturday.
And she was a little bit agitated when she came round.
She finished at six o'clock, and I'd rung her and I said,
"Are you still coming?"
"Yep, yep, I'm on my way."
So, she came, she was a bit agitated, and I said to her,
"What's the matter?"
She says, "I've got to go."
[Narrator] Caliman had told Faye
that she could not watch the movie with her mother.
Their daughter would be alone.
He's got the little one...
and he's threatened to leave her in the house on her own.
I said, "Right, okay,"
so I gave her the bags of things.
She kissed me, hugged me.
"See you later. Love you lots."
Then went, got in the car.
[Narrator] 6:30 that April evening,
the 28th was a Saturday.
Cold for the time of the year, skies were cloudy.
Faye returned to her home to care for her daughter.
Sometime over the next hour, Marian messaged her.
He would not be able to help with childcare the next day.
Marian had made things extremely difficult
in terms of childcare,
which again, just really does show, doesn't it,
an ongoing emotional abuse or emotional manipulation,
because what he's trying to do there,
very clearly by this point,
is prevent her from being able
to make this better life for herself.
Because if she has a better life for herself,
she may look back and think, "What the hell was I doing?"
So, he tries to prevent that,
but still her mother steps in, the family help.
Just settling down, and she rings about half past seven.
And she said, "Mom, he's threatening now
"not to have the little one tomorrow while I go to work."
She was on the weekend.
So, I said, "Right, okay.
"I have her on a Monday anyway.
By all means, bring her here, and I'll have her."
"Are you sure?" "Yeah, of course, I'll have her."
So, she must have spoken to him on the phone and said,
"Don't worry, Mom will have her tomorrow."
[Narrator] But the very fact that Faye
had handled the situation, supported by family,
was a key moment in what would happen next.
There is always a trigger, there always has to be.
And so, in a situation where, for example,
Faye has found this new job, she is standing her ground,
she's fighting over childcare,
she's got the support of her family,
she's no longer being as isolated as she was.
And we know that Faye was also reconnecting
with her friends, she was going out again,
the people that she'd been kept from by her abuser.
[Narrator] Her former lover was enraged.
He went round to Faye's home.
That night was the last night of Faye's life.
Caliman subjected her to a terrifying and horrific attack.
A particularly horrible aspect of this case
is the fact that when he started the final assault on Faye,
Marian took out his mobile phone and filmed it.
Caliman filmed himself intimidating Faye Caliman
before he actually attacked her.
And this is quite a calculated and thoughtful move,
which really, I think, speaks to the sadism
and the control and the power
he was trying to exert over Faye
in this moment of extreme vulnerability for her.
Very, very clearly, the first few minutes of the assault
are all captured very, very clearly on film,
where he's standing over her with her cowering on the floor.
I mean, it's incredibly difficult to watch.
It's something that is not unique,
but is very, very unusual.
The footage shows him brandishing a kitchen knife at her,
threatening to kill her while she begs for her life.
[Narrator] He was saying he was going to kill her.
Perhaps, what that really was was his way of saying,
"You know what? You've taken the power.
"You think you've taken the power.
"You've asserted yourself.
Well, I'm gonna show you where the power really lies."
Because when you see the things he was shouting at her
and the manner in which he was effectively torturing her,
and doing some of it in front of their two-year-old child.
And the terrible thing, amongst many terrible things,
is that when this was all done and dusted,
and when they were speaking to the two-year-old girl,
she was saying that, "Well, Daddy had hit Mommy in the head."
She'd seen some of this,
and perhaps that was intentional. Perhaps it was,
"I'm gonna put you in your place,
"I'm gonna show you where the power lies,
"and I'm gonna do it in front of the children
"so they know too.
You will not have power over me."
[Narrator] Just before midnight,
Faye's mom received a visitor
to say her daughter had been attacked.
You know, she'll be wanting me, she'll be needing me.
And he said, "No, I'm very sorry.
"I can't, she's not at the hospital.
She's still at home."
So, I'm like, "Oh, well, I need to get to her then.
I can drive, I can drive."
He had to stop me from going upstairs to get dressed,
and then he said, "I think you better sit down."
[dramatic music]
[Narrator] Just after 10 p.m.
on Saturday evening of April 28th, 2018,
Marian Caliman stabbed Faye with a kitchen knife
whilst filming the scene on his phone.
A little later, he switched off the record mode to make a call.
At 22:40 hours that night,
Caliman rang the ambulance services saying,
"I've killed my wife."
Paramedics attended and tried their best to save Faye,
but she was pronounced dead at the scene
with 12 stab wounds in her body.
[Narrator] Faye was pronounced dead by paramedics at 11.30 p.m.
Kirsty Newbury saw the commotion.
I'd gone out that night,
and I was on my way home in a taxi about 11 o'clock,
and there was just helicopters everywhere.
And we're in a small village.
There's, like, literally one way in and one way out,
so it's very weird to have something go off
and no one know about it,
and no one know what's actually happened.
But there was just helicopters, police, ambulances.
It was just literally crazy.
And I was like, "Don't feel nice.
I don't know what's gone off."
[Narrator] Having killed his wife and left his two-year-old daughter alone
with her lifeless body, Caliman was now on the run.
He reaches to his phone again to send texts.
He sent me two, "Look after the girls,"
and the second one was, "Sorry..."
which I didn't answer.
[Narrator] Then he calls a friend.
And while he's talking to his friend,
he makes two different suicide threats.
He effectively tells them, "This is what I've done.
I did something terrible."
He effectively points out that this thing that he's done
was an accident to all intents and purposes,
and then he talks about killing himself.
He rang a friend saying, "I've done a terrible thing,"
and told the friend that he was going to kill himself.
He doesn't kill himself.
He makes no effort to kill himself.
It seems very much more like a manipulation.
This is all about me, no one else matters.
[Narrator] Meanwhile, at home without Faye
for what had been planned as a family movie night, Stella.
I'm watching TV, waiting for movie
to get started, our evening.
In my night clothes, in my dressing gown, I'm relaxing.
And I saw two shadows coming up the driveway.
And so, my partner went to answer the door, and it's all quiet.
And I thought I better go upstairs and get dressed,
coming round here at this time of night,
and I've got my night clothes on.
So, I saw two figures behind my partner,
and it was the police.
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He said... he asked me my name
and have I got a daughter called Faye.
And I said, "Yes."
And he said, "I've got some really bad news for you."
"I'm so sorry to tell you that
there's been a fatal incident
where Faye has been injured, and it was fatal."
And he had to tell me three times because I was like,
"Let me get dressed. Is she okay?"
"Is she in the hospital?"
"Is she asking for me?"
"Can you take me to her?"
"Do I need..." you know.
And I just didn't take it in.
It just wasn't registering that it was fatal.
[Narrator] Stella was told that Faye had been stabbed 12 times
and died of a fatal wound to the heart.
It was information she could not process.
[Stella] She'll be wanting me, she'll be needing me.
And he said, "No I'm very sorry.
"I can't, she's not at the hospital.
She's still at home."
So I'm like, "Oh, well, I need to get to her then.
I can drive, I can drive."
And he had to stop me from going upstairs to get dressed.
And then he said, "I think you better sit down."
[Narrator] Stella was in shock,
but there was more for her to deal with.
The police revealed that Marian Caliman
was the man suspected of the murder of her daughter.
Well, they was asking me,
do I know any information
on anything about the relationship?
And I said to them, "It's him, isn't it?"
And they said, "Well, yes, we do believe it is."
So, they said that they was looking for him.
[Narrator] The next day, her friends learned of Faye's murder.
I'd seen a Nottinghamshire Police post on Facebook,
and it says a 30-year-old woman
murdered in Bestwood Village.
And I just had this horrible pang in my stomach.
I kinda just... I don't know why,
something just said it was her.
And I rang my friend, Kirsty,
'cause she still lived in Bestwood Village at the time.
And I said to her, "Is it Faye?"
And she went, "Is what Faye?"
I said, "Is it Faye that's been killed?"
Just no words. It was just like the worst nightmare.
Faye's dad messaged me,
and my little girl was on the phone,
and he said, "It's Faye."
But my little girl's playing...
so I didn't have my phone. I couldn't get it.
But then I seen it flash up again, saying it's Faye.
What do you mean it's Faye?
So, I took the phone off my little girl,
and he just put, "She's dead."
And I just collapsed in the kitchen.
[birds chirping]
[Narrator] On the day the entire family had been due to fly away for a holiday,
reality began to sink in.
Stella performed a necessary duty.
On the Monday, so two days later,
I had to identify the body.
Well, instead of us all getting on a plane,
I spent the morning in the mortuary at her bedside.
[Narrator] September 2018 at Nottingham Crown Court,
and the day of the trial for the murder
of Faye Caliman had arrived.
We were still quite in the dark about what he'd actually done.
We knew he'd stabbed her, but we didn't know to the extent
of what he'd actually done.
[Narrator] Any thoughts that Caliman would plead guilty
and so ensure a short ordeal
for Faye's loved ones and friends were soon dispelled.
When we went to court for him to do his plea,
he appeared via video link.
So we was all in the courtroom,
all sat waiting for him to appear by video link.
And the screen came on, and he was automatically...
his face was there,
and he didn't realize that he was live in court,
and he was laughing with one of the prison guards, yeah.
And when he pleaded not guilty, he just looked smug.
It was so... you can't even explain the feeling.
Like, you've took a daughter away from her mother.
A child has been motherless now through your actions.
Why would you want to go to trial
and put them through everything?
[Narrator] Caliman's defense was that
he was not in control of his actions
when he had stabbed Faye.
The difference in law is crucial.
An intention to kill or seriously harm
which leads to a death means murder and a life in prison.
Being out of control suggests no intention,
which can lead to a manslaughter verdict
and a considerably shorter sentence.
A jury would have to consider the decision taken by Caliman
to record his attack on his mobile phone.
This is something you have to wonder
why anyone would choose to do this.
The one effect I think it does have
is it undermines any suggestion from Marian
that this killing, that this murder,
was a loss of control.
Because if he'd lost control,
in what world is he reaching into his pocket,
taking out his phone, typing in his pin,
or whatever pattern it might take
to open up the security log, going to camera,
switching to video rather than photo,
and then starting recording?
[Narrator] A film Stella felt she had to watch
to experience the final moments of her daughter's life.
I knew what the video would look like,
but seeing it and hearing it,
you just don't understand the feelings that run through you.
And I saw exactly where the knife was positioned...
...the phone.
The only thing I didn't know was what she was wearing
and what she would be saying.
I hadn't taken that into account,
but I knew exactly where she would be sitting in her chair.
But to see the footage... was crippling.
I've never seen her like that.
She knew she was gonna die.
She was saying all sorts just to get out of it, begging him.
And that, on my worst days,
on my lowest days, that haunts me.
[Narrator] Mid-trial, faced with a compelling prosecution case,
Caliman elected to enter a plea of guilty after all.
Those in court felt he showed no remorse in doing it.
I expected him to say, "I was sorry," he was sorry.
And I expected him to put his hands up and say,
"I didn't mean it," you know.
And... no, he didn't.
He didn't even look at me.
He wouldn't even look at anybody.
He just stood with his head down
and nothing, no remorse, no tears, no nothing.
Just stood there as if nothing had happened,
which made me angry.
He didn't even look up until one of the girls
tried to get a bit of a reaction out of him.
And they started to say something,
and then the judge stopped them,
and he turned and he looked.
And it was almost as if he looked and thought,
"Oh my, everyone knows now."
Do you know what I mean?
Like, he realized it's out there. We all know.
And he just put his head straight down,
and he never lifted it again.
He got 19 years. He got 21,
but because he finally and eventually
he pleaded guilty, they gave him 19.
But they gave him a life sentence,
which he will have to serve 19 years
before he gets any parole.
So I wanted him, you know...
but that's not in this country now, is it?
We don't do hanging.
[Narrator] With Caliman imprisoned for life,
friends and family now face life without Faye.
I just remember her being fun, loving,
and I'll never find a friend like her, and I know I won't.
She was the best person I've ever met in my life.
And we had so much planned, so much to do,
and it was just robbed.
She didn't deserve it.
She was a very happy-go-lucky girl,
always life and soul of a party,
so she'd want you to be laughing and smiling
and remembering her in a nice way.
But it's just, I don't know,
you just couldn't really...
it just didn't seem real,
even still there on her funeral day.
[birds chirping]
[Stella] I live over the wall from our church yard,
and she is right over the wall. She's with us.
So, fairy, yeah, at the bottom of the garden.
We spent a lot of our times together,
and we'd make time to be together.
So yeah, it's only right that I should go round
and put fresh flowers on.
[birds chirping]
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