BBC doc to detail ‘vicious’ murder of born-again Christian’s husband by her secret lover
A BBC documentary is set to detail the ‘vicious’ murder of a born-again Christian’s husband.
Though the killer initially got away with it, he was eventually found due to DNA evidence which unveiled his horrid crime.
The victim was a man called Paul Gault, who was killed out of jealousy by his wife’s secret lover, Gordon Graham.
Lesly Ann Gault was having an affair with Graham which led to her husband’s death in May of 2002.
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The killing will be the focus of an episode of the documentary series The Crime I Can’t Forget, airing on BBC One tonight.
Graham broke into the Gault’s home on May 19th, 2002, bludgeoning his lover’s husband to death with a hockey stick.
Though DNA evidence led to Graham’s arrest, he initially got away with his violent crime.
Lesley Ann Gault, however, was initially connected to the death by prosecutors. This led to her receiving a life sentence.
Her appeal was later granted in the Court of Appeals after spending time in prison.
In this time she started a relationship with a prison guard, which ended after her release.
Gault then remarried after her release, becoming a born-again Christian.
The pair’s son, Jonathan, speaks in the documentary about the awful experience of his father being beaten to death.
Jonathan says, in quotes obtained by The Sun, that he ran through the police cordon to hug his father one last time.
His interview in the documentary was emotional, with Paul’s son saying: “You always think one day they’ll come back. I think as a child you have that imagination.
“Then as time goes on, you’re told that your father won’t be coming back.
“The thought of people hurting other people, the fact that someone could hurt someone, as a kid that didn’t make any sense to me.”
Initially his father’s death was chalked up to a robbery gone wrong, but DNA evidence and interviews with neighbours painted a different picture.
The lead investigator says in the documentary: “How does this completely unknown person, with no police history, no criminal record, zero police intelligence about him, suddenly end up beaten to death in the privacy of his own bedroom?”
The inspector went on to say: “When you look at something like that, you think, is this right?
“Does this feel like how burglaries have taken place?
“Instinctively, the idea that we had a burglary that the very items the burglar was supposed to take, who would then carry out a most horrific murder, and would then leave the items, just didn’t seem to square.”
They ultimately instead found out the horrifying crime was one of deadly passion, not one of financial gain.
The Crime I Can’t Forget will air an episode about Paul Gault’s death at 10.40pm on BBC One tonight, March 4.
Topics: BBC, Crime, TV and Film, TV, Documentaries, True Crime
Michael Slavin