For a woman who once longed to be famous, Jenna Goldsworthy leads a remarkably quiet life.
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Neighbours rarely see her out and about in the Cornish village where she lives with her former pub bouncer husband.
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she → see → husband
Those that do say the 57-year-old grandmother is virtually unrecognisable as the convicted murderess whose contorted snarling face became one of the defining criminal images of the mid-1990s.
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face → do → mid-1990s
Tracie Andrews, as she was then, became a household name when she brutally stabbed her 25-year-old fiancé, Lee Harvey, to death in a country lane in Worcestershire and then attempted to dress up her evil crime as a road rage incident.
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she → become → incident
The performance given by the aspiring blonde model at a televised police press conference just two days later made headline news long after she tripped herself up in her own web of lies.
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Two weeks ago, Andrews’ wicked crime - and that electrifying press conference - were resurrected in a new Channel 5 drama, Under Suspicion: Tracie Andrews - Lover, Liar, Killer.
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crime → electrify → Suspicion
The one-off programme, starring Hollyoaks actress Emma Rigby as then 27-year-old Tracie, was originally set to air at the end of July but, amid complaints from the victim’s now adult daughter who said her family had not been consulted or given advance warning, was suddenly postponed.
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family → star → warning
Quietly rescheduled and finally shown at the end of September, it is clear that even three decades on emotions around this notorious 1996 case are still running high.
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decades → reschedule → case
Tracie Andrews, as she was then, became a household name when she brutally stabbed her 25-year-old fiancé, Lee Harvey, to death
A source close to the Harvey family told the Daily Mail this week: ‘They feel the continued trickle of stories and documentaries about Lee’s murder is now simply a vehicle for media companies to make money and they are deeply upset that they have to go through another wave of public intrusion every time something is aired.
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‘They want nothing to do with revisiting the past as it’s just too painful.’
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it → want → past
This newspaper has also made contact with Tracie Andrews’ 36-year-old daughter, Karla, who was just seven years old when her mother was sent to prison.
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mother → make → prison
‘My pain and suffering from it is real and traumatising,’ she said, speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail from her home in Birmingham this week.
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‘It doesn’t get any easier having to watch a massive, tragic part of my life being aired.
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part → get → life
It’s upsetting.’
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Raised by her father while her mother spent 15 years behind bars, she visited Andrews throughout her time in prison but declines to speak about her, saying only: ‘I have my life and she has hers’.
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she → raise → hers
But she strongly sympathises with 34-year-old Danielle Harvey, the daughter of murder victim Lee, who was five when her father was killed.
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father → sympathise → Lee
Just over a year apart in age, the two women became friends as children when their parents were involved in their ill-fated relationship and are both now mothers.
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parents → become → relationship
‘Me and Danielle both lost and have suffered a lot in different ways,’ she told me last week.
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she → lose → me
Danielle declined to comment but voicing her own distress about the Channel 5 true crime drama back in July she said, via TikTok, that she hadn’t received any prior warning of the programme.
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‘To people who watch it, it’s just another drama to them, to us it’s real life,’ she said.
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It’s our nightmare and our life sentence.’
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More, later, of these two now adult women and how the murder of Danielle’s father by Karla’s mother continues to haunt their families after all these years.
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murder → continue → years
Their parents met in 1994 in Ritzy’s nightclub in Birmingham.
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parents → meet → Birmingham
Within three months they’d moved in together and were engaged within six.
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But right from the start, their relationship was volatile, punctuated by violent rows overheard by neighbours as well as passionate reconciliations.
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relationship → punctuate → neighbours
Part-time barmaid Tracie and unemployed bus driver Lee broke up and made up a total of nine times during their two-year relationship.
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Tracie → break → relationship
At times Lee’s face bore bloody scratches from Tracie’s nails.
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face → bear → nails
She also bit his neck, punched him and once hit him over the head with a bottle in a nightclub.
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She → bite → nightclub
Lee’s mother, Maureen Harvey, would later recall Tracie’s controlling behaviour and explosive rages and how she warned her infatuated son that if they stayed together they would ‘end up killing each other’.
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A source close to the family told the Daily Mail last week that while watching the film Fatal Attraction, Tracie pretended to stab the cushion on the sofa next to Lee, saying that if he ever tried to leave her, she would be just like Glenn Close’s bunny-boiling Alex Forrest and take revenge.
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she → tell → revenge
On December 1, 1996, after rowing all day, the couple went for a drink at the Marlbrook pub in Bromsgrove before setting off home in Lee’s white Ford RS 2000 Turbo.
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couple → row → Turbo
They argued violently, eventually pulling over in a narrow country lane less than a mile from their maisonette in the village of Alvechurch.
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Their fight ended when Tracie stabbed 25-year-old Lee more than 37 times with a penknife, fatally severing both his carotid artery and jugular vein and leaving him to die.
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Tracie → end → him
The alarm was only raised when a man from a nearby house heard a woman crying and found Tracie standing by the driver’s door of the car.
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Tracie → raise → car
In the hours that followed, she told police that Lee had been killed by a mysterious assailant in a Ford Sierra.
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Lee → follow → Sierra
The man, she said, attacked him after a cat-and-mouse car chase which began when he overtook the other car.
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It isn’t hard to see where she got the idea for this concocted story.
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Just seven months earlier, the shocking murder of electrician Stephen Cameron by Brinks Mat robber Kenneth Noye in a road rage attack on the M25 had thrust the phrase into the national spotlight.
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But it was the cold, calculated and ultimately over-acted performance she gave at the press conference held at Redditch police station in Worcestershire on December 3 which ultimately proved her undoing and ensured her a place among the ranks of Britain’s most evil female killers.
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Sporting a bruised face and black eye and gripping the hand of Lee’s devastated mother who was sitting beside her, she laid out her fictionalised story in detail, even concocting a description of the killer as ‘a fat man with stary eyes’.
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