Unsolved: Philip Cairns New Development

Now, if we take it up from there, Peter, because that's not the end of the story of Eamon Cook's criminal convictions, because that's one of the reveals in this podcast through work that you've done in the Pirate Predator team.

You can tell us more.

We're going to come back to Philip Kearns in a little bit, but specifically about Eamon Cook himself.

and prison sentences he was serving.

You mentioned a 10-year sentence imposed in 2006.

He was actually serving, at the time of his death in 2016, he was by then serving an even longer sentence.

He was serving a life sentence, and this wasn't something we could address in the documentary series itself.

But since then, and since listening to the documentary, one of his children, Karen, has come forward and has decided not to be anonymous anymore and to talk to us.

And she has done that.

And that will be a forthcoming extra episode.

But what she has revealed is that she was assaulted by her father.

And for that, he got a life sentence, sexually assaulted.

And this is Karen speaking with you.

Comes as a result of her having listen to the podcast, come through all of that.

Have you been in touch with Cairn?

Yeah, I mean, look, I've been making documentaries for 30 years, and this is the first one really where no one wanted to talk to me, which is a really strange position to be in.

We know a lot of people listened, and as the story evolved, people did get in contact with us.

I think we've had over 100 contacts to the Doc on One team, specifically about Eamon Cook, since we started publishing.

That's an enormous amount of people to come forward.

Before we go back to Philip Cairns, Cairn is not the only person who is speaking out in a sense.

And she got justice through the life sentence imposed on her father.

But there are other people, other people have come forward who may well be victims of Eamon

Cook.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, this is the point really is in the end, two women.