A lot of the information recorded by the police in their statements had conflicting information, one said a lamp, one said a fan, one said a phone. No one tested the lamp or fan, her phone had blood and was cracked and she admitted hitting him on the head with her phone after waking him up by shoving him, Lewis admitted this too and said he regretted phoning the police but they were both wasted and he constantly kept trying for the case to be dropped, it was in writing and he said to the prosecution that he had insisted he didn't want this and wouldn't be involved.
It had been reported that he was asleep, she hit him over the head with the lamp and all that blood was his, this was said by the prosecution at the plea hearing, in the newspapers etc nothing was said that Caroline slit both arms, the blood was hers, that Lewis took the photo sent it to his mate and his mate sold it to the sun.
She had been treated in hospital for hours for the cuts to her arms, then brought to the station to be interviewed, Lewis didn't need any treatment, there's documented evidence of this from the paramedics. There's back and forth from everyone regarding if she was fit for interviewing, they knew she had just tried to kill herself but continued on with the interview. There was a lot that happened as interviewing goes and informing the CPS, after all of that it was told by the CPS she would get a warning, that was it, the mum read all the letters out regarding this, but the detective came on duty had 3 of her own cases happening which were much more serious but she got involved in Caroline's case having heard the other officers talking about it, even though it was agreed she'd get a warning, this detective wrote to the CPS disputing this but never included any evidence regarding the suicide attempt and the blood being Caroline's, or any of the finer details, the CPS can only go on what the police tell them.
Lewis admitted that he would threaten to go to the papers during arguments, it was obviously a toxic relationship but he said there was never any violence from her, there were no records of violence from Caroline over the years.
She suffered with her mental health from a young child, bipolar was mentioned to her mum by a professional when she was younger.
The papers didn't care how their words affected her, I know it can be soul destroying having awful things printed about you, untrue things then the social media comments from the public were disgusting, I wasn't a fan, so I just turned off the programme she would be on, I never felt the need to take to a newspaper or social media and slag her off.
Her mum wanted to help her, just like any mum but she was in her 40s and had to let her live her life, I'm sure there were many conversations between the two not aired in the documentary.
They played the voice notes and texts in sequence, you could see when she'd spiraled after a bad newspaper day, some of those headlines 😞 then when she was told it was going to court she was worried about the body cam footage of her with slit arms, half naked, etc
The professional people her mum spoke to all said it was ott and should have been left at a caution.