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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And to me, I think it was instilling a sense of unconscious fear. That's what it felt like. Because it's like, normally you would say, well, what do you mean, David? What do you mean you saw somebody crushed to death? But something said, don't go there, don't ask. So I just didn't ask.
It was then that he told us that he'd bought a business off the shelf.
And it was then that he told me that he wanted Ron and I to be directors.
I thought, well, why isn't he being a director? He said, I want you and Ron to be directors because I don't want my name on any of the paperwork because my wife is after me.
He said, I'm concerned because I think she's hired a private detective because she's after me for alimony.
If he sensed that I was maybe perturbed, he was able to deflect that and put the positive aspect on it.
He was so convincing. He was so plausible. When he explained stuff, it sort of, oh yeah, that makes sense. Even though nagging in the back of your mind might be thinking, oh, he was just so clever at being able to put you at ease.
It didn't really say. It never really got discussed and was developed.
He encouraged Ron and I to purchase an apartment in Harrogate.
And that will help you get to Canada. So we ended up buying an apartment there. Oh, my dear, it's complicated. It really is complicated. So what happened was I couldn't get a mortgage because I didn't earn enough money to pay for the mortgage on the apartment. He said, don't worry about that. He said, Cavendish will pay the other half and you can pay me with your wages.
So he was actually getting his own money back.
I can't believe I'm saying all this, to be honest.
He said, I've got something to show you. And we drive to an area in Harrogate, pull up outside on this street, and there's this business that's empty. And he says, what do you think? And I said, what do you mean, what do you think? He says, well, wouldn't it be suitable for Ron to set up a TV repair business there?
Oh, I don't know. I don't think he'd want to do that. He wants to go to Canada. He said, yeah, but if you set up a business, you'd make some money to go to Canada. And I said, yeah, but it takes time to build up a business. Then he explained it to Ron, and Ron wasn't keen at all, but he managed to persuade him to do it.
I think it all happened within a year.
We'd exchange a Christmas present to each other and then he gives us a card. He gives me the card and I open the card and in it is this Christmas card that says to Ron and Elaine, I will purchase, pay for two flights to Canada if you go by the end of February.
When I read it, I'm actually quite shocked because I think, wait a minute, this is 25th of December and he's talking about us going to Canada by the end of February.
How on earth are we going to wind down the business, sell an apartment? And it's all so quick. It's weeks, isn't it?
So I was initially just shocked and Ron just beamed from ear to ear. Finally, I'm going to Canada. He was happy as Larry, but I underneath it. I was camouflaging that because I didn't want to spoil Christmas Day.
Ron said to me on the phone, he said, I'm coming back to England. And he said, Mr. Davis has offered to meet me at the airport. And I had a horrible doubt feeling.
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