East Sussex, England, 1993.
Car dealer Harry Fuller is at home with his wife Nicola, when suddenly there is a disturbance.
Harry Fuller is shot in the back, killing him instantly as the bullet passes through
his heart.
Nicola flees from the assailant, but is shot three times as she runs away.
As she crawls to her bedroom, she dials the emergency services - but she is unable to
successfully explain her situation, as a bullet has shattered her jaw.
The telephone operator assumes the noises coming from the other end of the phone are
children playing on the line, and does not re-route the call to police.
A gunshot rings out over the phone.
Nicola Fuller has been killed.
For such a gruesome tragedy, it is important the perpetrator be brought to justice for
their horrific and ruthless crimes.
At the murder trial, the jury ensured this was done, by performing a seance with a ouija
board and delivering a guilty verdict at the behest of a ghost.
Yes, this really happened.
Stephen Young was a 35 year old insurance broker on the verge of financial ruin when
he was put on trial for the Fuller's murders.
It was alleged that Young was in significant debt, and targeted Harry Fuller because he
often handled large sums of cash as a car dealer.
In the days leading up to the shooting, Fuller was said to have had about £13,000 pounds
in the house.
When police searched the house, they were unable to locate this sum.
The very next day after the murders, Young had deposited £6,000 pounds into his bank
account.
Young's voice was also identified on a phone call with Fuller made the day before the murders.
In the call, the two arranged to meet the next day.
The call was recorded by Fuller, who had just started recording his phonecalls a few days
previous, although no one knows why.
It was alleged that Young had arranged the meeting with Fuller purely for the purposes
of killing and robbing him.
His car was caught on CCTV entering the area and leaving again about an hour later and
Young did admit to being at the crime scene, saying he had gone to meet with Fuller as
discussed on the phone, but arriving at the Fullers' cottage, found Harry Fuller dead
and fled in fear.
He claimed to see a mysterious face in the window of the house as he left, and later
received threatening phonecalls dissuading him from going to the police.
Harry Fuller's body was found to have sugar powdered all over it, in what police believe
was an ill-conceived attempt to disguise the killings as drug related.
Now, not to play the armchair lawyer or anything, but just taking this info at face value - it
seems highly likely that Stephen Young murdered Harry and Nicola Fuller.
Evidence links him to the time and place the Fullers were murdered and his alibi is about
as sturdy as a house of cards - and the house is the leaning tower and the cards are soggy
tissue paper.
Seems like an open and shut case right?
Well, the jurors apparently disagreed.
The 12-member jury was lodged at a local hotel during the trial, and, the night before the
final verdict was given, four of the jurors were engaged in drinking while the rest slept.
They couldn't be sure Young had committed the crime and wanted to be certain if they
were going to convict someone to two life sentences.
But how could they be absolutely sure?
What could provide irrefutable certainty?
Well, a drunken seance of course!
They constructed a DIY ouija board with a pen and a piece of paper and used an upturned
wine glass as a planchette.
Using the ouija board they supposedly contacted Harry Fuller's spirit.
When the jurors asked who committed the crimes, the ouija board provided the answer - Stephen
Young (well, I could've told you that).
The spirit demanded the jurors vote guilty the following day.
For those unaware, a ouija board is a supposedly supernatural device with the alphabet printed
on it - used to make contact with the dead.
Everyone gathers round and puts their hand on a planchette, which is moved by an otherworldly
spirit across the board to spell out things in response to whatever shite the dopes using
it are saying.
Some insist you need a legitimately sourced ouija board, and others say you can make your
own.
I fall into the latter camp as it doesn't matter what you use - it's all bullshit.
Either someone is intentionally moving the planchette to mislead the others or people
are involuntarily moving it due to their unconscious thoughts.
It's called the ideomotor phenomenom.
Anytime I make statements like these I invariably come under attack in the comments by a small
minority of loonies who believe in all this paranormal stuff.
Is there more to this world than we humans can perceive?
Sure, maybe - I don't necessarily disagree with that - but you can't talk to a ghost
with a piece of wood, you Scooby Doo ass motherfucker.
Also, 'Ouija' is a Hasbro trademark.
The next morning, the four ghostbusters told the other eight jurors about the experience
over breakfast in the hotel.
Later that day, they passed the guilty verdict.
However, one month later it was made public that that jury had used a fucking ouija board
to determine their verdict - apparently a juror had gone to the papers.
In light of this information, the Court of Appeal in London granted Stephen Young a retrial
with a fresh jury.
They also found him guilty.
He was given two life sentences.
Stephen Young has always maintained his innocence, although it's a little hard to argue with
the fact that he was recorded arranging plans with Fuller the day before the murder, the
fact he was filmed in the area, the fact he admits he was at the scene of the crime and
the fact a large sum of money was deposited into his account the very next day.
Also, a ghost said he did it.
Y'know, I'm starting to rethink my previous stance on the paranormal.
I mean, a ghost did say he was guilty, and he was guilty - so y'know...
Like how could the ghost have known that?
You know what I mean?
Well, let's just see now.
Let's get this ouija board up on screen here.
Ok everyone put your hands on the planchette.
Alright now if there are any ghosts watching this video, do you have any messages for us?
Oh my god, look it's moving.
I am literally not doing that guys it's the ghost.
It's the - oh my god.
Look what it's spelling!
I am seriously not doing this, I'm not editing this or anything.
You think I would edit this shit flying around the screen spelling out stuff - hell no, it's
nothing got to do with me.
Look it's spelling something else.
What's that.
Oh my god, well ok ghost if you say so.
Alright everybody the ghost is real, do as he says, click the subscribe and the join
buttons underneath this video or the ghost will get really angry.