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00:00 Tara Terry, a young woman who was arrested in Florida for arson. In Florida you go to
00:07 the electric chair for arson, you actually are executed. And so this distraught father
00:14 rang us up, again this was in the late 80s, we'd only started. And he said, "Could you
00:21 help me?" He had no money. And he said, "My daughter's in danger of going to the electric
00:27 chair in Florida, she's only 19, can you help us?" And Andrew said, "Yes." And that was
00:36 the first case. He went out to Florida and there was no money, but you can always get
00:44 some up from good people too. And he saw that we needed a really expert fire expert because
00:55 it was a run down hotel with dreadful electrics and she and her boyfriend had been in this
01:00 grotty hotel and there'd been a fire and apparently the boyfriend had heard a row and someone
01:05 heard them and they thought she'd set fire to the hotel as revenge. But to prove that
01:13 wasn't the case, she needed an expert who'd cost thousands of dollars. So Andrew came
01:18 back and he did a little article about it. And that week this motorbike chap came up
01:30 to the front, Clive Unnaman, and he came in and he said, "I need to see Andrew about the
01:38 Tara Terry case." And we had no idea who he was. And he came in and he threw on Andrew's
01:45 desk the deeds of three properties and he said, "I want to give all these properties,
01:51 sell them for Tara's defence." Miracle. And suddenly we had the money to give her a proper
01:58 defence, which is why most people, not most people, many people go to death row and the
02:05 electric chair because they cannot afford a defence and the state won't give them one.
02:10 And once they got in court and the expert had examined the hotel, it was just a death
02:16 trap, and she was found not guilty. They brought her home, great rejoicing. And that was how
02:27 freedom now began. So it was all very dramatic.