[tense music]
♪ I'm gonna be just fine ♪
[narrator] After two troubled relationships,
Keely McGrath makes a fresh start with a new man.
She looked content, she appeared content with us,
and he appeared to be a decent guy.
Everything he did, he worked 24 hours a day
for his family.
[narrator] Which impresses Keely McGrath.
♪ Since I was just a child ♪
[narrator] But the couple is destined for dark times.
There was about ten police cars.
All the road was blue taped off.
I got the impression that she was his
or nobody else was gonna have her.
♪ And you can't bring me down ♪
[tense music]
[ominous music]
[heartbeat thudding]
[bright music]
[narrator] Keely McGrath and her sister Alex
moved house more than most because of dad.
[Martin] I was in the army.
So we moved around quite a lot
when the girls were born.
It was mainly me bringing them up by myself.
[narrator] Living on army bases.
one daughter, Keely particularly, has fun.
It was sociable for us and sociable for the children as well.
We'd often have barbecues and sort of house parties,
that families would get involved in
so they both grew up in quite a social environment.
She had wonderful friends who will tell me
that she was so funny.
[dog howling]
Quietly!
[narrator] As she grows, Keely becomes quite the character.
[dog whines]
Keely was quite independent, feisty,
quite willing to do things on her own.
[narrator] Traits that land 16-year-old Keely
in trouble at high school.
She became a bit disruptive while she was there.
Easily led. She would do what anyone else wanted her to do.
She wanted to go out and work. Didn't get on very well with school.
Didn't like authority very much.
♪ I'm gonna be just fine ♪
[narrator] Away from the confines of the classroom,
Keely is happier when carving her own path.
There was an officer's mess,
so she got a job doing waitressing.
And she got up every morning at half past three
in the morning to go to work at half six, to put her makeup on.
Always had to have her makeup on.
That was what she needed to do. She loved work.
That was what she was born to do. To go to work, not to go to school.
I think it just fitted in more with her independence.
[narrator] As a young woman, Keely experiments with her image.
She always had different colored hair.
I couldn't say what color her hair would be
when she used to come and see us. Sometimes it was red, it was brown,
sometimes it was blond. Whatever color.
[tense music]
[narrator] She later becomes a regular
at her favorite hair salon.
She always looked really nice when she came in.
You know, she did make effort and things like that.
And obviously having her hair done as well.
She always looked nice.
She didn't need makeup for a start.
She was beautiful without it.
She didn't think that.
She had no confidence, no self-esteem.
So she wore a mask, basically.
[gentle music]
[narrator] Life soon comes at Keely very quickly.
She falls deep for one young man with life-changing results.
In her first relationship,
she had two children and they were together
for three or four years.
[gentle music continues]
[narrator] Keely isn't ready for the consequences
of how her life has changed.
-[baby crying] -[ominous music]
She was very young, so she did have postnatal depression.
She did hide it to a certain extent from us.
[ominous music continues]
But she then seemed to settle.
That seemed to be what she was made to do
is being a mom.
She loved that and obviously they went on to have a second one.
She was working and being a mom.
And, you know, that was,
I thought she was the happiest she'd ever been.
[narrator] At home, Kelly doesn't always
tell her parents everything.
They are surprised to find out
that she's leaving her partner
and starting a new relationship.
She met up with what then became her second relationship
while she was still involved in the first.
The chap that she hooked up with was someone she was at school with.
She just went for people
that you wouldn't think she would go for.
[tense music]
[narrator] Her parents have their doubts
about her new partner, but Keely is determined.
She'd moved up to Derbyshire with her second partner
who she went on to marry.
[narrator] Already having suffered postnatal depression,
Keely is now a long way from her parents.
-[tense music continues] -She was definitely vulnerable,
but she wouldn't listen.
[narrator] With 150 miles now between them,
Keely becomes isolated from her parents.
They suspect she may be in a difficult relationship.
It was uncomfortable knowing that she had moved away,
not knowing exactly what had happened,
but knowing enough to know that it wasn't great.
[narrator] During this time in her life,
a decision is taken for her children to stay
with their natural father back in Hampshire.
Keely's parents are concerned about how she's treated.
I don't know what was happening at that time,
but I think she was the lowest
that she would ever get to at that point.
We had lost contact in that period.
I just wanted her to come home.
She was so far away.
I just wanted her to come home.
[melancholic music]
She wrote me a letter a few years ago
saying she wished she'd listened to me, I was right,
and she should have listened.
[tense music]
[narrator] Her parents don't know it,
but Keely's latest relationship is breaking down.
The couple are not getting on.
It's been going on for a long time.
It will have made her feel terrible.
It makes sense then that it wouldn't really take much
for a new person to get her attention or to make her feel good.
[narrator] It is three years before Keely's family
are close again.
She has a new man and big news.
I found out through my other daughter
that Keely was pregnant by a guy.
We didn't know who he was.
She actually made contact with Claire's mom,
so her grandmother.
Wanted to come and see her,
which we think, yeah,
it was an obvious sort of olive branch, if you like.
I met her at my mom's.
Met her and the baby and it was like no time had been apart.
You know, it's like I'd seen her all the time
and she seemed really happy.
[tense music continues]
[narrator] She may seem happy,
but marks on her face tell a different story.
The first time I saw her
after not seeing her for a couple of years,
the first thing I saw was a scar down her face.
[tense music continues]
It was a long scar.
She had her hair trying to hide it, but I saw it.
[narrator] Keely's parents don't yet know the cause of her injury.
She's with a new man now and they hope he's good for her.
-[tense music continues] -She was, we believed, settled, happy,
um, and with a new partner.
[narrator] He is 35-year-old Tony Davis.
They haven't met him yet,
but they like what they're hearing about him.
He worked hard.
He owned his own business.
He owned a number of houses,
which, of course,
gives a sense of a well-rounded individual.
[narrator] It's two years before
they eventually meet Tony Davis.
During that time,
her parents know only what Keely tells them.
Certainly for me, the image that we were given appeared
to be a reasonable one.
He's providing, she's happy, they've got their family.
We can relax now.
[tense music continues]
She looked content, she appeared content with us,
and he appeared to be a decent guy.
[tense music continues]
[narrator] But appearances can be deceptive.
Detective Inspector Fawcett Greaves
will one day want to know more about Davis.
He had a lot of friends who were known
to the police previously.
His associations and such like
didn't paint him as a standup citizen.
[narrator] Is Tony Davis hiding a darker side?
[tense music]
27-year-old Keely McGrath appears
to have turned her life around since meeting new love,
Tony Davis, and starting a family.
She's made some good friends too.
I first met Keely about seven years ago
where I used to work behind the bar.
[tense music continues]
She used to come in with Tony after he finished work.
Yeah, they seemed a happy couple.
[tense music continues]
Tony used to have about 30 Budweiser every night
and Keely wouldn't be far behind with blue WKDs.
[narrator] Tony Davis plays hard,
but he's known to work hard too.
He's peoples' landlord. He's a businessman.
His dad before him owned land and houses and businesses
that Anthony now owns.
And so in a community,
that's somebody who is well known
but is also well known
with an air of authority and respectability.
He run a business involved in plant hire.
Diggers and trucks, you know,
taking muck away and that sort of stuff.
Anthony works long hours, six days a week.
[tense music continues]
She said that he was always thinking about the business,
always talking about the business,
always wanting to expand the business.
And that kind of resonates with me,
sort of my outlook in life.
So, again, it was like a box ticked.
He was looking towards the future.
Everything he did, he worked 24 hours a day
for his family.
[tense music continues]
[narrator] Davis has a checkered past with his own family.
Keely told us his dad had died a few years before.
He hadn't spoken to his mom in years.
That was it.
So we didn't know anything about his…
He had no family, as far as we were concerned.
[narrator] After inheriting his father's business,
money is not an issue for Davis.
She'd come and visit us probably once a month for the weekend.
She always brought money with her. She always had cash.
She's always spending it on everybody.
[tense music continues]
She knew that he appeared relatively successful
and she would portray that to us,
but she never appeared to know to what extent.
And so we didn't know.
We had to go and pay money in for him all the time at the banks.
But that's what got us shopping.
[tense music continues]
He was flash.
He wanted to present as the successful businessman.
He wanted to present as the affluent individual
-and that's just how he behaved. -[tense music continues]
[narrator] But is the business above board?
[Martin] He was talking about business
and he commented on how much cash his business generates.
And he asked me for my advice
on how he should deal with that cash.
Laundering, basically.
I commented to Claire on the way home as to why he thought I might know
how to launder his business cash.
We laughed about it and Claire said, "Oh no, you know,
is he gonna get into trouble?"
[narrator] Davis's finances
will eventually raise suspicions with detectives.
He had a large amount of cash in the bank
and he lived in a very modest
end-terraced house with the family.
-[tense music continues] -[man] It's not for us to judge
how a person should spend their money,
but the type of person he was, the assets he had available,
it did appear strange.
[tense music continues]
[woman] It's just a bumpy old road.
It wasn't a very attractive street,
but I think he owned the whole row of them.
So he just chose to live there, I think.
The house they lived in, it was pretty basic.
It was small, quite old, not particularly well maintained.
It was clean, 'cause Keely kept it clean,
but it was not particularly well maintained in other senses.
The house next door was empty, which he owned.
[tense music continues]
That one, she used to just keep all her rubbish next door.
I don't think he wanted anyone to live there.
[narrator] Could there be a sinister motive?
I believe was in order
to provide a sound buffer between his activity
in the house and the nearest possible neighbors.
[narrator] Is the activity abuse?
Keely has to offer an excuse to her parents.
She'd say, oh, he's working really hard.
He's trying to provide enough for us to build a house,
'cause they lived in a very small house.
[tense music continues]
[narrator] It's about to feel a lot smaller.
Proud grandma Claire rushes to join the couple
at the birth of their second child.
She wanted me to be there at the birth.
I went up there the day that he was born
and that's the first time I'd ever met Anthony Davis.
[narrator] Does he live up to expectations?
Half an hour after first meeting him,
we were together in a room for an hour.
It was a bit uncomfortable 'cause obviously I didn't know him.
I was a little bit unsure of him. He was quite
sarcastic and full on.
[narrator] Just after giving birth,
Keely suffers a setback.
Keely had got pneumonia about a week after giving birth.
[narrator] After becoming a father for the second time,
Tony Davis has a surprising reaction
to news of Keely's condition.
Tony wouldn't take the kid to the hospital for Keely.
So I had to go and pack a suitcase for her
and take the baby to the hospital for her.
And then I think I spent about four days
with her straight in hospital.
Didn't go to work and he didn't come and visit once.
[tense music continues]
[narrator] It's not the only time his absence will be felt.
She came down to stay with us for a few days
with what was then the new baby.
And he drove her down here,
literally dropped her off,
stood at the door, and then drove back again.
Six-hour round trip. We thought that was odd.
[narrator] It's a trend that continues.
They were coming for Christmas Day
and I was so excited 'cause all the family
were gonna be there.
And it wasn't until Christmas Eve, she said he won't come.
He said he only gets a couple of days off.
-He wants to spend it at home. -[melancholic music]
You know, Martin and I were quite angry that you've left it until now.
He was almost allowed to do that
because it was seen as
what a businessman would do.
You can see why Keely's family would think that's normal.
On a couple occasions we went up there, he was out at work for most of the time,
but came back in for an hour or so before we left.
In the years that they were together,
he and I were probably in the same room
for an hour and a half, two hours,
over four years.
[tense music]
[narrator] Tony's relationship with Keely's parents remains distant.
But they soon have other worries.
Then, not long after, she was pregnant again.
You know, we were concerned about the fact
that they were so young and so close together.
But she's, "Oh, it'll be fine."
[narrator] Her friend, Laura, suspects otherwise.
I think she struggled a bit.
Tony never looked like the romantic man.
Just what he wanted to do was work,
make money,
keep her having kids.
She was always stuck with a kid.
She could never just leave him
and go out and do what she wants.
She had to make sure the house was clean,
his tea was cooked for when he come in.
Tony had come home from work.
He'd have 15, 20 bottles of Bud,
which Keely would have to go out and buy in the day
and make sure that they was in the fridge,
ready for when he got home from work.
[tense music continues]
[narrator] To her parents, Keely presents a rosier picture.
She appeared to quite like being the housewife.
She cooked us a meal while she was here.
She'd never done that, even when she was at home.
So to hear that she was cooking these,
you know, exotic meals was fun for us.
And we laughed about it together.
[narrator] But having her parents so far away
is difficult for Keely.
She's increasingly more isolated.
She often said how much she missed her parents
and the fact that obviously her children
didn't see them as often.
It was little things like that that then you would pick up on,
and it was more like she was told she can't.
[narrator] Davis's controlling behavior
is spotted by Keely's other friends too.
I just don't think he liked her going out.
It'd always just be, look after the kids
and then that just kept her inside.
[tense music continues]
♪ I'm gonna be just fine ♪
[narrator] As well as coercive behavior,
Davis is known to be violent.
Keely had always said that he'd push her around
or throw things at her.
I've seen him come across just as we was walking in the pub.
He got her pinned up against the wall by her throat.
♪ And you can't bring me down ♪
There had been at least one prior call
to Derbyshire Police regarding a domestic incident
between Keely and Davis.
[tense music continues]
She rang me up, crying,
saying that he'd beat her up that night.
I went up there. She sat crying.
She got massive bruises on her leg,
saying that when she got home,
he'd beat her up with a belt.
Made her sit up all night
and said that if she got a message off
of a number that wasn't saved in her phone,
then he would've killed her then.
[tense music continues]
[narrator] Keely's injuries are so severe
that she needs an ambulance.
Her close friend, Laura, is faced
-with a difficult situation. -[siren wails]
It was one of them when the ambulance come,
do you go out and say, "Look,
she's gonna tell you she's fell down the stairs,
but actually her boyfriend's beat her up."
I didn't want to, in case it affected the kids,
'cause she'd never forgive me if they got took off her or anything.
It is really common when you're in an abusive relationship
as a woman, especially when you've got kids as well,
to feel a lot of shame about admitting almost
that your relationship is abusive,
that it's not what it looks like from the outside.
[tense music continues]
Keely came to what looked like, you know,
the perfect relationship
from previous abusive relationships
and relationships that had broken down.
You could see how there'd be even more pressure on her
to maintain this,
and to make it look like everything's okay
and that she's not a failure.
I'd ask her if she'd ever leave him and she'd never really give me an answer.
The week after it, Keely would be like,
oh no, we're fine now.
Everything's back to normal.
Then something else'd happen
and then it'd just be same thing all the time.
We had the conversation.
I was like, "Look,
you are gonna end up dead if you don't get out of this."
[tense music continues]
If he's keeping her financially,
what is she supposed to do?
She has three small children.
If she gets out from underneath him,
where's the money gonna come from?
Where is the house gonna come from?
It's really, really difficult
to leave an abusive situation like that.
I got the impression
that it was either gonna be she was his
or nobody else was gonna have her.
[tense music]
[narrator] 30-year-old Keely McGrath
has already escaped difficult relationships.
The mother of five is now being abused
by her partner, Tony Davis.
She seeks solace in a new friendship.
We can only assume that she was looking for some affection
and wherever it came from.
If you go home or at home,
spend every hour at home in fear of a beating or worse,
then it's not difficult to imagine
that any affection would be welcome, would be sought after.
Keely has started a relationship
with a neighbor who lives several doors down.
[melancholic music]
It made her feel good about herself.
I think all she ever got off Tony was,
he'd come home from work, have sex with her,
and then go back to work.
Davis clearly had a lack of respect for Keely.
She was a trophy bride, in my opinion,
is how he treated her.
Sleeping with someone else.
She'd talk about it with me and she was very happy about it,
that somebody was making her feel good.
[tense music]
I think it was fairly readily obvious
that that relationship was an opportunity for him
and a get out for her.
[tense music continues]
I think she was seeing him for quite a while.
She'd go and meet him while the kids were at nursery.
I don't know where she went.
In the car somewhere.
[tense music continues]
[narrator] Tony suspects the affair
and, on November 30th, he confronts Keely's lover.
He denies it.
Tony's reaction surprises Laura.
He seemed to get nicer to her.
Why, you know?
He'd buy her flowers.
He'd buy a new handbag, which he'd never usually do.
So she thought, it's okay.
It wasn't what she was expecting him to be like.
[tense music continues]
[narrator] With Christmas approaching,
Keely takes the children to see her parents.
She came down to take her two older children
to the pantomime
and for me to look after the three younger ones.
[narrator] But she's not herself.
She came back, went straight to bed,
and was generally quiet throughout the weekend.
I thought, you know, she had three children under three and a half.
She's tired.
[tense music continues]
[narrator] There's something else on Keely's mind.
[woman] Keely phoned saying that Tony rang her,
that one of his mates has seen her with a man,
parked at the side of the road.
Whilst Keely is away spending time with her family
and her children,
Anthony is aware of her relationship
with that neighbor that lives a few doors down.
And so that whole time she's away,
he's thinking about that, stewing on it.
[tense music continues]
[narrator] Keely is planning to drive back to Derbyshire.
On the Sunday, she said she was going home early.
She always said she was going home early.
She'd never leave before three o'clock in the afternoon.
By the time she'd put her makeup on,
got all the children ready, it was always late.
She never seemed to want to go home.
But this time, she said she was leaving early
because she had to go home
and put her Christmas decorations up.
She left at about half past 11 in the morning.
[tense music continues]
[narrator] But before she leaves,
Claire sees something disturbing on her daughter's phone.
One of her younger children were playing with her phone
and she got a text message,
and I saw it.
And it implied that she was seeing someone.
[tense music continues]
Claire and I, both initial thought was, oh no, what's she doing?
You know, as far as we are concerned,
she's got a great life.
What's she doing if she's putting that at risk?
[tense music continues]
You've got all these children,
you've got a nice house,
partner who obviously loves you.
You can buy things that you want to buy,
and you're ruining it.
I can't bring it up while she's driving home
because she'll get really cross and anxious
and she's driving all these children home.
So I never said anything,
but I was stewing on it.
[tense music continues]
[narrator] Back in Derbyshire, Keely visits the hair salon.
She seems in good spirits.
She did say she was going on an night out with some friends.
She was really excited about it and couldn't wait.
I think it had been quite a while. It might have even been the first one
since having her little girl.
And obviously just for Christmas in general.
She loved Christmas.
She used to decorate probably from beginning of November.
She'd always put her decorations up.
[narrator] Not this year.
[tense music continues]
Tensions are mounting between Keely and Tony Davis.
He gives her an ultimatum.
Tony rang Keely saying
that she had to tell the guy
who she was having an affair with,
that he had to tell his wife that they was having an affair
before somebody else did.
[tense music continues]
[narrator] Keely follows orders. Her lover's wife learns of the affair.
Emotions are high.
[tense music continues]
As soon as she'd become aware that this affair had taken place,
she was straight round to confront Keely.
[tense music continues]
Keely phoned me saying
that the lady next door
had barged her way through the house.
I think Keely was probably open and honest with her,
which resulted in that neighbor assaulting Keely.
[tense music continues]
When I finished work and went round to Keely's,
the oldest boy came running up to me and said
that the lady next door had hit Mommy in the face.
She says she just stood there.
She said, "I think I deserved it."
[tense music continues]
[narrator] Keely senses her retribution isn't over,
but there's no sign of Tony.
Davis had gone off in a huff.
He'd gone a spending spree
and then gone to stay with some friends nearby,
been to the pub, got drunk.
[narrator] Fueled by alcohol and drugs,
Davis decides to tell Keely's parents about the affair.
They know nothing about any abuse that Keely has suffered.
I had a text message from him saying,
"Keely's seeing someone else. I'm distraught.
I can't believe it. I'm so upset.
I did everything for her."
I wrote back and said,
"I know you have."
And I just said, "I can't deal with this."
So he then started texting Martin.
[tense music continues]
My text back to him was quite supportive of him saying,
"We're here to help. We don't wanna interfere, but we're here to help."
[tense music continues]
[narrator] Keely's parents are unaware
that Davis is playing them off against their daughter.
Davis is an extremely controlling individual,
not just of Keely, but of those in her close environment.
People had succumbed to what he was telling them.
He also started to manipulate Keely
and tell her that her own mother had said, you know,
if that relationship breaks down, we wouldn't have you back here.
We wouldn't look after you.
Something that Keely's mom had never said.
[tense music continues]
But it's a way of cutting off that last avenue of support.
I called her and she was really upset.
Where is he? Where is he?
Said, "I don't know. He's just text me.
What are you playing at?" Oh, you have no idea, Mom.
And she hung up on me.
[tense music continues]
[narrator] Davis has spent the night drinking in the pub.
He's not responding to Keely's messages.
He's still not home by the early hours
of December the 13th.
And so Keely is texting him trying to find out where he is.
-[tense music continues] -Around 1:00 AM,
he decided he was gonna confront her about it.
I sent Keely a couple of messages when I finished work,
which she didn't reply to.
[tense music continues]
Had an app that told me where she was.
And the night before when I went to bed at half past 10,
it said she was at home.
The next morning, she wasn't there anymore.
[tense music continues]
I messaged her when I went to work
in the morning on WhatsApp,
and it only had one tick next to it.
I tried to ring her a couple of times.
Nothing.
On the Thursday morning, I was working from home
and I sent a text to him around about,
it was just after nine o'clock,
saying, "I don't wanna interfere.
I don't know exactly what's happening,
but the children are the priority.
Make sure they're safe and looked after
and we'll deal with the rest."
He sent a text back to me immediately,
within a minute or so, saying,
"Yes, the children, but everything will be fine."
So it was almost like a sigh of relief.
Oh, okay, so he's gonna forgive her
for what she's done and they'll be okay,
and it'll be fine.
[tense music continues]
[narrator] At 9:45 in the morning,
Tony Davis calls 999 to request an ambulance.
-[siren wails] -[tense music continues]
At midday, he makes another phone call.
He called me up on my mobile.
He said, "Are you on your own?
Are you driving?"
So the questions he was asking me,
I knew I was being set up for some bad news.
And I was there to put him on loud speaker.
[tense music continues]
Given the messages
that we'd exchanged earlier on in the day,
I thought the bad news was going to be something
along the lines of we've split up.
I've kicked her out or she's left.
And then he said, "Keely passed away this morning."
What? What?
And he said, "She's died."
[tense music continues]
I said, "Sorry, I'm sorry?"
"Keely's passed away.
She's died."
And I said, "What?
What do you mean?"
I remember him saying quite forcefully
the third time he said, "She's dead!"
That was it. It wasn't a long phone call.
[tense music continues]
I was taken aback by what he was saying,
but also in the way he said it.
It was a very curt and very short conversation
to be told your daughter had died.
Regardless of the circumstances,
you'd have thought that the partner
would've given more explanation,
given some more circumstances or some background.
But it was evident that he was keen
to get off the phone from me.
But I reasoned that, well, he was in shock as well.
[narrator] Davis offers a fuller explanation
to Derbyshire Constabulary.
He had come home in the early hours of the morning
and found that Keely had fallen down the stairs
and sustained a series of injuries as a result.
[tense music continues]
[narrator] News of an incident at Keely's house is spreading.
I got loads of missed calls saying that
there was loads of police and everything up at the house.
And I just walked downstairs to my stepdad and said,
"Keely'll be dead when I get there."
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There was about 10 police cars.
All the road was blue taped off.
I just said to a police officer, "What's happening?"
He said, "Don't worry, the kids are fine.
I am afraid Keely's passed away."
Obviously I started crying, asking where Tony was.
And they was like, "Why do you need to know that?"
-I was like, "'Cause he'd have done it." -[tense music continues]
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[narrator] Claire and Martin McGrath have just received devastating news.
Their daughter is dead.
The claim from Tony is that she's fallen down the stairs.
What's going on? You know, it was kind of a weird bubble that we were in.
There was a few text messages in the next few hours.
Martin said, "What's happening?
Do we need to come up there?
Where are the children?"
"I'm sorting it. I'll let you know when I know more."
[narrator] Keely's parents are 150 miles away,
desperately trying to understand what's happened.
Martin just shut down.
He couldn't move.
I paced round around the house.
[narrator] They don't know it yet,
but suspicions have turned to her partner, Tony Davis.
Police are asking questions.
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In the kitchen of the premises,
there was evidence of some prior disturbance,
some broken glass on the floor, et cetera.
And Keely's body was partially covered in the living room.
She was on the sofa when the ambulance crew first arrived.
How did she get from the bottom of the stairs to there?
How did the blood get to the various parts?
Why are there picture frames, family picture frames, smashed?
Why are they removed from the wall?
[narrator] Police have questions too about Davis's demeanor.
But when officers arrived,
they found that Davis was stood holding the youngest child.
Appeared to be hiding one of his hands.
[narrator] Within hours, a murder investigation is launched.
The news comes as a shock to Keely's parents.
We then got told that her partner was arrested
under suspicion of her murder.
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And then we are driving up to Derbyshire
at 10 o'clock that evening,
a three-hour drive there to go and collect the children.
Keely's family wanted answers.
They were confused and they were a long way away.
And I remember asking the police officer at this point,
so I asked him two questions.
First of all, was he
absolutely sure in their mind
that it was murder rather than anything else?
And he said, "Yes, we're sure."
My second question was,
are you absolutely sure that it was him?
And he said, "Yes. We're sure."
[narrator] After his arrest, it becomes clear to officers
why Davis had been attempting to hide his hand.
[man] We did a full body map examination
of Davis whilst in custody.
And what that means is we basically, we look at every square inch of his body
to identify any injury.
One of his hands was very severely swollen,
which would be evident if you'd expect someone
to have punched somebody repeatedly.
It's exactly that type of injury that he had.
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We put different injuries to him,
asked him to explain them,
-and he was unable to. -[melancholic music]
[narrator] Along with details of Keely's affair,
investigators uncover the reality
of her relationship with him.
Keely was controlled, I think, in every way.
Completely hidden to the public eye,
financially controlled, emotionally controlled.
He dictated everything that she was allowed to do.
[narrator] Police spend the next seven months building a case.
They find vital evidence on Keely's phone.
Text conversations, WhatsApp, conversations, et cetera
that Keely had with-- with her friends
and had mentioned the abusive nature of the relationship.
And indeed she'd shared a photograph,
a selfie of an injury, black eye, which she had.
She was quite clear when she disclosed to her friend Davis had punched her.
[narrator] It was the first of a series
of shocking revelations for Keely's parents.
We didn't see any signs. Now looking back, even now,
three and a half years later, something will come up and go,
do you think that's why?
If you don't know,
you perceive a victim of domestic abuse
to be a shrinking violet.
Keely wasn't a shrinking violet.
[narrator] Keely's friends and family
try to make sense of it all.
Whether he said to her, if you say something,
I'll hurt you more.
I'll hurt the children,
I'll hurt them.
Again, it's something we'll never find out.
We now know.
We didn't know at the time,
but we now know a couple of her friends knew.
So you ask yourself the question,
why couldn't she tell us?
If she had been able to tell us,
we might have been able to help her.
If only she'd said, she could have moved down here.
We've got room. She could have lived with us.
It would've been hard, but what's the alternative?
[tense music]
Living without her.
[narrator] The focus for detectives
turns to getting justice for Keely and her family.
As the weeks and months followed
and we were given more information
about the prosecution case
and him as an individual and his character,
it became very obvious
that he was never going to admit guilt.
And so it was going to go to trial
and we were gonna have a full trial.
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[narrator] Over the course of the trial,
her parents endure the devastating details,
including videos of their daughter's suffering.
He'd made videos.
The last one was quite menacing,
where he pulled faces and said,
"This isn't gonna end well."
That were his words, "This isn't gonna end well."
[tense music]
[narrator] The pathologist's report shows the extent
of Keely's injuries.
We knew that we were gonna hear lots of information
and detail that was uncomfortable.
So we were prepared
or we prepared ourselves to a degree for that.
But you can't prepare yourself for what you then hear.
Keely had died as a result of a vicious attack.
She had 48 separate injuries.
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I felt I needed to know because, if I didn't know,
I'd just speculate.
And I guess, in my own mind, that was worse.
Because she hadn't told us anything, I needed to know.
As a mother, I had to know what she'd gone through.
So she had two fractures to her skull,
14 broken ribs,
six on one side, eight on the other, two punctured lungs.
And the degree of her injuries
would've meant she was in severe pain
to the point where she would've been crying out.
[tense music]
Just to feel, take some of her pain away.
If only I could have done.
And I know that
when she knew she was dying,
'cause she would've known,
that she would've wanted me.
And not knowing whether she would've asked for me.
I'm pretty sure she would've done,
but I'll never that find out
'cause he'll never tell me.
[melancholic music]
[narrator] The report goes on to reveal
more disturbing information about Keely's final hours.
Subsequent forensic testing did establish
that there had been recent sexual contact with Davis.
Impossible to time exactly when,
but putting all of those features together,
I remain convinced that during the course
of that attack, Davis raped Keely.
We heard so much horrific detail,
to hear that your daughter was raped
and for that not to be the worst thing you heard that day
kind of puts that in perspective.
Well, he just sat there.
When they were showing all the pictures of all her injuries,
he didn't even move,
didn't even change his face expression.
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They don't know whether she died initially
from the brain injuries or from the collapsed lungs,
but both of them would've killed her.
They just don't know which one came first.
I can't imagine what she went through that night.
[narrator] The report raises questions about how Davis claimed Keely had died.
Having that level of broken bones and injuries
wasn't consistent with falling down one flight of stairs.
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[narrator] Prosecution present more damning evidence
when they describe Davis's actions in the hours after Keely's death.
The fact that he staged Keely's body
at the bottom of the stairs means, that at some point during that morning,
all three of those children must have seen Keely's body.
Because they have to have come downstairs
to get out of the house to go to nursery.
He took the two older boys to nursery that morning.
He dropped them off at eight o'clock in the morning,
didn't take the eight-month-old child,
so she was left in the house on her own,
laying next to her dead mother.
[narrator] Forensics suggest that Keely
was attacked in the bedroom where her baby slept.
We found blood evidence on that cot, on the bedding,
and there's no reason for me to believe
that the child wasn't in the cot at that time.
[narrator] After taking the children to nursery,
Davis had texted Keely's parents.
He had had considerable text conversations
with Keely's parents.
Within those conversations,
he blamed Keely for ruining everything.
He asked for help.
He portrayed himself as the victim.
I don't understand what's happening.
What about the kids? What am I gonna do from here?
But Keely was dead at that time.
He'd already murdered her.
[narrator] As they hear the evidence, Martin and Claire sit just feet
from their daughter's killer.
He looked at me.
I'm not entirely sure whether he nodded
or whether he just looked at me.
After about three or four seconds, I guess, of eye contact,
he looked away.
And I remember thinking to myself, he's guilty.
[narrator] On the 15th of July, 2019,
after two days of deliberations,
the jury reaches its verdict.
We were called back in
and it was guilty.
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Once you know that the verdict is guilty,
it becomes, well, it was obvious.
It was obvious that he was guilty.
But when you're going through it,
it's highs and lows of emotions.
You can't imagine how it feels.
I very clearly remember seeing Martin and Claire
directly in front of me, and I saw the weight disappear
from their shoulders, physically.
And it was extremely emotional.
[narrator] 39-year-old Tony Davis is sentenced
to life in prison with a minimum term of 24 years.
I think it doesn't bring Keely back,
but I think it's more than we-- we expected
I hate him so much,
but I love his children or Keely's children more.
And so I'm here for them.
Forever.
And he hopefully will rot in hell.
He's effectively orphaned his own children.
[melancholic music]
[narrator] The death of Keely has impacted the lives
of everyone who knew and loved her.
[woman] Yeah, we had a lot of good times together.
Well, we spent nearly every day together for four years.
But yeah, she was a really good friend.
Crying now.
I had a tattoo of Keely,
well, to represent Keely, holding a balloon.
I had it on New Year's Eve just after she had died.
Keep her with me forever.
[narrator] Domestic abuse affects one in four women
in the UK.
Keely's parents hope that in sharing her story,
they can raise awareness.
I don't want anyone else to go through the pain that we've gone through
and still go through.
It's not something that will ever go away.
If we can help just one person, then that would be worthwhile.
Losing a child this way
has to be one of the hardest things to go through.
The day that she died was the day my life stopped.
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-[tense music] -♪ Since I was just a child ♪
♪ And you can't bring me down ♪
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♪ I'm gonna let the light in ♪