Rachel Shannon
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19,019 appearances
67 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
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Rachel Shannon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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was unstructured and disorganized, and that there were enough grounds to make an arrest.
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The same day as Poppy's death.
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Two years after that initial police probe, they held a formal inquest, which began in November of twenty seventeen.
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It ran for more than three weeks and heard from thirty nine witnesses.
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One of those witnesses was Paul Worthington, who had been in hiding up until this point.
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He was smuggled in through the back door of the county hall, shielded by police officers.
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Court staff literally taped over the windows of the building so that nobody could see in.
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And as he spoke, he had two officers standing nearby with tasers in case anyone tried anything.
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Oh, how tragic that would have been if someone did decide to try something.
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The counsel to the inquest, Alison Hewitt, began her questioning of Paul by telling him that she would be asking no trick questions.
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The first question was to confirm that his relationship with Poppy's mother began in two thousand nine.
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But he refused to answer that question, citing Rule twenty two.
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For those who don't know, Rule 22 comes from the coroner's inquest rules, and it means that a witness at an inquest doesn't have to answer a question if the answer might incriminate them.
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It's essentially the right to silence carried over into a coroner's court.
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Across two days of evidence, Paul Worthington declined to answer questions two hundred and fifty-two times.
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He refused to describe the sleeping arrangements in the house.
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He wouldn't talk about any of the events on December eleventh or twelfth.
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He wouldn't discuss the pornography he said he was watching or what kind it was.
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He said that he didn't know how Poppy's bottle or her pillow ended up on his bed.
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He was then asked directly outright whether he had penetrated his daughter either himself or with an object, but he would not answer.
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