Claims extracted
31
sentences that state something as happening or true
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6%
2 of 31 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Jurors heard Ms Price had chosen the nanny because she “wasn’t very attractive” and a “little bit overweight”, in the hope that Hayler would not cheat on her.
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Hayler → hear → her
But despite her intervention, Ms Price said her ex-husband had a 10-month affair with the nanny.
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husband → say → nanny
At Lewes Crown Court on Tuesday Hayler’s lawyer, Arlette Piercy, put it to Ms Price: “You are angry and vengeful towards the defendant Kieran Hayler, you have evidenced a vendetta against him over a number of years.”
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you → put → years
Ms Price responded: “That is not true.”
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That → respond → ?
When challenged by Ms Piercy on her view of her ex-husband, Ms Price said: “I don’t have any venom against Kieran, it was amicable when we split.”
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we → challenge → Kieran
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Ms Piercy then asked Ms Price: “You chose the nanny.
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You → read → nanny
It’s accepted at a later stage he had an affair with her.
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he → accept → her
“You chose her because she wasn’t very attractive and she was a little bit overweight.”
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she → choose → her
Ms Price replied: “Absolutely, there was a reason for that so he wouldn’t cheat on me again but he did.”
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he → reply → me
The court previously heard that Ms Price messaged the teenage girl allegedly raped by her then-husband saying she had heard that Hayler and the girl had kissed and he had “tried it on” with her, adding later: “I will make you a little star.”
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you → hear → her
Asked in cross-examination by Ms Piercy about her use on occasion of the phrase “little star”, she said: “That’s a figure of speech.”
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That → ask → speech
Asked what did she mean, she added: “I don’t know, when she was 13 there’s no agenda or nothing behind it.
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she → ask → it
“It’s just a figure of speech.”
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It → ’ → speech
Later in her court evidence when asked about the full message exchange, she said she cannot remember them and this is the “first time I’ve seen these”.
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I → ask → these
She added they are “quite triggering because he was doing all this behind my back” and that she had “blocked” them out through therapy.
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she → add → therapy
She had told the court she had gone to the Priory, referred to as a rehabilitation centre, “because of the damage he’d done to me with (the complainant)”.
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he → tell → complainant
Ms Price was also asked if she had been following media reports of the trial, but she said “no, because I’ve been handcuffed to Suella Braverman all week” – a reference to the Channel 4 television show Celebrity Handcuffed.
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I → ask → show
Ms Piercy also asked whether Ms Price had been getting updates from the trial from someone sat in the public gallery.
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Price → ask → gallery
Ms Price replied: “No.”
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Price → reply → ?
On Monday, she told the court she was “really shocked” by the allegations.
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she → tell → allegations
Ms Price told jurors: “I was shocked… like really shocked.
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I → tell → jurors
It was a different kettle of fish, it’s a child.”
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it → ’ → fish
She told the court she confronted her husband at the time, asking if he had “done stuff” with the teenage girl.
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he → tell → girl
Asked by prosecutor Ryan Richter what his response was, Ms Price said: “I can’t remember his response but his response all the time was ‘no I hadn’t’.”
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I → ask → response
She said she did not speak to the girl about the allegations face to face, and was asked whether she asked her to report it to the police.
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she → say → police
“I was going through it myself.
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I → go → it
I was having a breakdown at that point,” she said.
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she → have → point
“I had to go in the Priory.”
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I → have → Priory
Hayler denies the charges and suggests his ex-wife had “launched a campaign” against him when their marriage ended and the allegations form part of this, the court has heard.
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court → deny → this
He was married to Ms Price at the time of the allegations, before the couple’s relationship broke down in 2018 and they divorced in 2021.
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they → break → 2021
The trial continues.
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trial → continue → ?
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