Elaine Boyes
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157 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Elaine Boyes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh, gosh. Oh, it is really. It's a difficult one, this one, because I've got to talk about what he did really, how he approached it. Let me put myself back there.
photographs of the fountains of Geneva and photograph the properties. That was the initial job. And then what happened was, at the first time going, he said he would meet me at King's Cross.
So when we get to the airport hotel, he signs in, he pays for the room. And then this is the difficult bit to talk about, to be honest. He then says, I thought it would be a good idea if we had dinner at the hotel. So we have a nice dinner at the hotel, at the airport hotel. And then he goes to reception. He pays for the bill.
And I'm thinking that any moment now he's going to say goodbye and he's going to go away. And he is struggling to part. And then he says, he says, is it OK to have a look at your room? And I sort of thought, what? To myself? And he says, yeah, I'm curious to have a look at your room. And I'm thinking, well, I can't say no, can I?
I don't know how to say this, but there was a sense of fear.
I did consider contacting the local police in Harrogate and asking if there was any way they could do a background check on him. And then I thought to myself, they won't be able to do that. People don't do that. And also I did think to myself that if I asked the police to do a background check on him, to suss out who he was, who was David Davis, that he might find that out.
And if he found out that I was suspicious of him in any shape or form, I just had a feeling that that wasn't a good thing. That wouldn't have been a good thing, would it? It certainly wouldn't have been a good thing, that.
He can't really be looking at rooms. He said he travels here and travels there. So why on earth would he want to look at a room?
And he sits on the edge of the bed nearest the window and I'm near the door.
And then he sits on the bed and says, well, I really hope you have a good time in Geneva. And I hope you look at this as a bit of a holiday for you as well.
And he said, but while you're there, could you do me a favor? Yeah. And I said, what do you mean? He says, well, and he reaches into his jacket pocket and he pulls out an envelope with some Swiss francs in it.
Well, he pulls it out and he says, I've got Swiss francs. He said, would you change this money for me into sterling?
And I looked puzzled and a bit shocked, and I said, oh, I don't know, David, I don't think this is legal. He smiled his warm smile. He says, in Geneva, there's bureau de changes everywhere. People are doing this all the time in Geneva, changing money. That's what goes on. That's what Geneva is about.
He said, this is my money, and all I'm asking you to do is change my money from Swiss francs into sterling. So I reluctantly said, okay. I had to get rid of him, basically, out of the room. But I was very, very perturbed about it.
As soon as he'd gone, I phoned Ron. I said, phone me straight back, won't you? Because it was going to cost, obviously, a hotel telephone bill. So I said, phone me straight back, and I explained what had happened.
And he put me at ease. He said, look, he knows what he's doing. He's a businessman. He's obviously done this before, you know. And just, I said, oh, okay then. So that's how it all, that's how that started, really.
But of course, I never realized that he had a secret agenda. Well, he did have an agenda, didn't he? Yeah.
It was all very strange, to be perfectly honest.
One time he put extra money in the envelope for me to change. So I thought, what's going on here? So he was testing me. He was testing my honesty.
For example, he once told me that he'd been in New York. I don't know what it was, but he said he'd witnessed somebody being crushed to death. And I thought, what a bizarre thing to tell me. And it was just something he was discussing over lunch. And I thought, is this something he's read in a book or is this something he's actually telling me?
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