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of bonus episodes. Thomas

3:07

Skinner was roused awake by the sound of

3:09

pounding at his front door on the night

3:11

of May 3, 1957. It

3:16

was about 11.20pm and he and

3:18

his wife Anne had not been

3:20

asleep for long. When

3:23

Thomas gathered his thoughts he walked down

3:25

the stairs and opened the front door.

3:29

To his surprise his next door

3:31

neighbour Kenneth Barlow greeted him. Kenneth

3:34

was dressed for bed in his pyjamas

3:36

and wrapped in a dressing gown. He

3:39

urgently asked Thomas to call the doctor

3:41

as something had happened to his wife

3:43

Elizabeth. The two

3:46

men raced to the Barlow's home next

3:48

door bounding up the stairs and then

3:50

into the bathroom. Elizabeth

3:53

was lying motionless in the bathtub.

3:56

Her husband rubbed her shoulders and then

3:59

broke down. his. While

4:02

Thomas ran to find a doctor, Kenneth

4:04

returned to the Skinner's home and told

4:07

Anne it was too late. His

4:09

wife was gone. 31-year-old

4:16

Elizabeth Cunningham was born and

4:18

raised in Derby. Until

4:21

her mid-twenty, she had lived close to

4:23

her parents, employed as

4:25

a textile worker at Reicheneld Mills

4:27

Limited on Bridge Street where she

4:29

had grown up. In

4:32

the early 1950s, Elizabeth

4:35

moved to Bradford and worked as

4:37

a ward auxiliary in several hospitals

4:39

in the area. She

4:42

remained single until she crossed

4:45

paths with 38-year-old Kenneth Barlow.

4:48

Kenneth was a widower. His

4:51

first wife Nancy died while they

4:53

were estranged, so Kenneth was raising

4:55

his 10-year-old son Ian as a

4:57

single parent. While

4:59

getting to know each other, Elizabeth and

5:02

Kenneth discovered they had something in common.

5:05

They both worked in the medical field

5:07

as state registered charge nurses.

5:11

After their wedding in June 1956, Elizabeth

5:15

moved in with Kenneth and his son

5:17

Ian to start a new chapter in

5:19

her life on Thornby Crescent, a

5:22

quiet residential street in

5:24

Bradford lined with identical

5:26

beige semi-detached houses. Just

5:29

under a year later on May 3, 1957,

5:34

Elizabeth was working part-time at a

5:36

launderette near their home. She

5:39

finished her shift around midday. Elizabeth's

5:42

colleagues remembered her leaving in good

5:44

spirits and telling them about her

5:46

plans to wash her hair. Arriving

5:50

home shortly after finishing work, Elizabeth

5:53

joined her husband and stepson in

5:55

the kitchen for their Friday lunch.

6:00

She spent the afternoon doing some chores

6:02

around the home, then popped

6:04

next door to speak with Anne Skinner.

6:08

After Kenneth Barlow finished cleaning his

6:10

car he joined his wife and the

6:12

Skinners. Mr

6:14

and Mrs Skinner said Elizabeth was in

6:17

good form when she left and was

6:19

full of life. At

6:22

around 5pm she had an evening meal

6:24

of toast, grapefruit and a cup of

6:26

tea with sugar. Mrs

6:29

Elizabeth finished eating, she relaxed

6:32

on the settee, but she

6:34

seemed restless. According

6:36

to Kenneth, Elizabeth told him she

6:38

was feeling tired. At

6:41

6.30pm she changed into her

6:43

pyjamas and lay in bed.

6:47

Around an hour later Kenneth went upstairs

6:49

to remind his wife that a television

6:51

show she was looking forward to was

6:54

about to start. Elizabeth

6:56

told him she didn't want to get out

6:58

of bed. Ian's

7:01

bedtime was at 8pm and

7:03

usually Elizabeth would say good night to

7:06

the little boy in his bedroom. On

7:09

this night however she was too tired

7:11

to move. Kenneth

7:14

later described how Elizabeth shouted

7:17

down for him at 9.30pm

7:19

and when he went into the master bedroom

7:22

he saw she had vomited all over the

7:24

bed. Kenneth

7:26

stripped the bed closed and changed the

7:28

sheets after which he decided

7:30

to call it a night himself and got

7:33

in to bed. Elizabeth

7:35

was tossing and turning, she

7:38

complained that she was too hot to sleep

7:40

beneath the covers. After

7:43

a few minutes she got out of bed

7:45

and told her husband she was going to

7:47

run a bath, perhaps to cool

7:50

herself down and freshen up after she

7:52

had been sick. The

7:55

sound of water filling the tub lulled

7:57

Kenneth to sleep. He

8:00

woke up suddenly about an hour later.

8:03

Elizabeth was not on her side of the

8:05

bed. Kenneth called

8:08

her name to see what was taking her

8:10

so long in the bathroom. His

8:13

wife did not respond, so

8:15

Kenneth got out of bed and opened

8:18

the bathroom door. Elizabeth

8:20

was still in the bath, but her

8:22

head was under the water. Kenneth

8:25

said he tried to pull her out of

8:27

the bath, but the water made it difficult.

8:30

He was unable to get a firm grip on

8:33

her body. He changed

8:35

tacks and used one hand to pull out

8:37

the plug while holding her head above the

8:39

water line. When

8:41

the bath had drained, Kenneth put Elizabeth on her

8:43

back at the bottom off the top. Once

8:48

in this position, Kenneth, the registered

8:50

nurse, performed CPR.

8:53

As soon as he realised his life-saving

8:56

attempts were futile, he alerted

8:58

his neighbours. After

9:05

a doctor and police officers arrived,

9:07

Kenneth Barlow relayed an account

9:09

of the evening's events. The

9:13

doctor had been the first to

9:15

attend and he saw Elizabeth in the

9:17

bath who exhibited no signs of

9:19

life. She knew

9:21

to wait for the police to arrive to

9:24

avoid disturbing the scene. Elizabeth

9:27

was lying in the bath on her

9:29

right side, her knees bent upwards

9:32

and her hands resting just below

9:34

her chin. Detective

9:37

Sergeant Naylor with the Bradford

9:39

Constabulary noticed a series of

9:42

peculiar circumstances in the bathroom.

9:45

The walls and floor appeared to

9:47

be dry, with no sign of

9:49

condensation on the tiles. Two

9:53

vomit-stained pillowcases were soaking in the

9:55

sink, and a damp pair of

9:57

sweat-soaked women's pyjamas were crumpled on.

10:00

The floor just outside of Boss.

10:03

A routine surge of the home was

10:05

conducted. And Doctor David

10:08

Price, a forensic pathologist was

10:10

requested to attend as. A

10:13

doctor arrived in the early hours just

10:15

after three. I am. Members.

10:19

Of the local see Id, we're

10:21

ready at the Bar Los property

10:23

as well as scenes of crime,

10:25

offices and police photographers. Dogs.

10:28

Of Price made a preliminary examination

10:30

of Elizabeth's body in a bar.

10:33

She. Was lying in what he

10:35

described as a natural sleeping position,

10:37

curled up on her right side.

10:41

Blood. Tinge frost had run out of

10:43

her nose and on to her hands

10:45

and when her body was moved boss

10:47

mortar that had been trapped in a

10:49

crook of her right held by slow

10:52

down towards the drying. Elizabeth's

10:55

body was eventually removed from

10:57

the property and taken to

10:59

the mortuary or postmortem was

11:01

conducted attacked. Doctor

11:04

Price examines Horizon Sound pretty

11:07

kill hemorrhage as well as

11:09

extreme dilation. All Peoples. In

11:13

fact, he said that the people's was

11:15

so in large that they almost covered

11:17

how rings. Hi Iris! Elizabeth

11:20

had been around eight weeks pregnant,

11:22

but there was nothing to suggest

11:24

anything was wrong with the pregnancy

11:27

or her major organs. And

11:29

lungs and respiratory tract will

11:32

congested with blood stained soil

11:34

straight into. However,

11:38

Dr. Price was suspicious.

11:41

Although he found no signs of

11:43

a violent struggle during his examination,

11:45

Elizabeth's dilated pupils suggested she could

11:47

have been under the influence of

11:50

drugs at the time off her

11:52

death. Blood. samples

11:54

taken from the inside of her heart

11:56

was sent to dr alan cari at

11:59

the northeast and forensic science lab

12:01

along with a urine sample

12:03

extracted from Elizabeth's bladder. Dr.

12:07

Curry found that Elizabeth's blood sugar

12:09

level was elevated but there

12:11

was no sugar in her urine. The

12:14

results contradicted each other. Blood

12:17

sugar levels rapidly decrease after death as

12:19

any stored sugar in the body is

12:22

used up when bacterial action begins to

12:24

break down the cells. Dr. Price referred

12:28

to studies he had read that showed that

12:31

blood in the right chambers of the heart

12:33

was an exception to this process and

12:35

instead of the blood sugar level declining

12:38

it would rise. Elizabeth's

12:41

blood samples were clear of drugs.

12:44

Still Dr. Price and Dr. Curry

12:46

wanted to re-examine the body for

12:49

injection sites. Kenneth

12:52

Barlow was a trained nurse and

12:54

during a search of his home

12:57

officers discovered two hypodermic syringes, four

12:59

needles and some quinine, a

13:01

medication that was used to treat colds in the

13:05

1950s but is now used as

13:07

a malaria treatment. Due

13:10

to the contrasting blood sugar results Dr.

13:13

Price considered the possibility that

13:15

Elizabeth had been injected with

13:17

insulin. Insulin

13:20

is naturally produced in the pancreas

13:22

to regulate blood sugar and the

13:24

creation of insulin as a drug

13:26

was hailed as a miracle for

13:28

diabetics. In the

13:30

1950s insulin was also

13:32

used to treat mental health

13:35

conditions like severe anxiety and

13:37

schizophrenia. Patients would

13:39

be injected with insulin which would

13:41

cause their blood sugar levels to

13:43

decrease rapidly. Extremely

13:46

low blood sugar is

13:48

called hypoglycemia and symptoms

13:50

include hunger, weakness, tremors.

13:54

Eventually patients slip into a

13:56

coma. Insulin

13:58

is absorbed into the body very

14:00

quickly after an injection so

14:03

the best hope the investigators had of

14:05

detecting it was to look for injection

14:08

sites. Elizabeth's

14:10

body was re-examined under better

14:13

quality lighting as the

14:15

first post-mortem had been conducted in the

14:17

early morning. Using

14:19

a magnifying lens, Dr.

14:21

Price examined Elizabeth's buttocks and

14:24

found four marks that he

14:26

suspected were from hypodermic injections.

14:30

Two pieces of skin fat and muscle

14:32

were then cut from the area that

14:34

appear to have been injected a few

14:37

hours before her death. Those

14:40

samples were frozen while Dr. Price

14:42

consulted with multiple specialists to come

14:44

up with a series of complex

14:46

experiments that would allow them to

14:49

test for the presence of insulin.

14:52

Dr. Gurd from Boots Drug Company's

14:54

research lab found over 80 units

14:57

of insulin in the tissue

14:59

sample taken from Elizabeth's buttocks.

15:02

Over twice the amount needed to

15:04

be consumed by a diabetic patient

15:06

in one day. The

15:08

insulin level would have been much

15:11

higher before death as it dissolves

15:13

quickly. 100 to 150

15:15

units were typically used to

15:18

put psychiatric patients in tachomas.

15:21

The tissue samples were eventually broken

15:24

down and extracts were taken to

15:26

be injected into mice. The

15:29

mice reacted as though they had

15:31

been injected with insulin for the

15:33

proving Dr. Gurd's results. In

15:37

mid-July 1957 Dr. Price

15:41

listed Elizabeth Barlow's cause of

15:43

death as asphyxia due to

15:45

drowning while in a hypoglycemic

15:47

coma caused by an overdose

15:49

of insulin. As

15:52

it would have been incredibly challenging for

15:54

Elizabeth to inject herself in the buttocks

15:57

Elizabeth's husband Kenneth was brought in.

16:00

for questioning. At

16:05

the station Kenneth Barlow was told insulin

16:08

had been found in his wife's system.

16:11

In response he said, that

16:13

would have killed her depending on

16:15

the amount that was used. When

16:19

asked if he had injected her with insulin,

16:21

Barlow adamantly denied that he did,

16:24

but did admit that he had been

16:26

injecting Elizabeth with something else, Agomatrine.

16:31

Agomatrine is a drug that

16:33

induces contractions within the uterus

16:35

and Barlow told the investigators that

16:38

at his wife's request he had

16:40

been helping her to end her

16:42

pregnancy. He

16:44

said that Elizabeth found out she was

16:47

pregnant around five weeks prior to her

16:49

death. It was

16:51

not welcome news, she

16:53

told her husband she would rather put her

16:55

head in the oven than have a baby.

16:59

Barlow admitted to taking ampoules of

17:01

Agomatrine from a hospital he had

17:03

been working at until a few

17:05

days before his wife's death and

17:07

injecting her with the drug several times

17:09

in the leader to her passing. The

17:13

forensic and bio-analysts had already checked

17:15

for known abortive medicines in Elizabeth's

17:18

system and they didn't find any,

17:20

nor did Agomatrine produce a reaction

17:22

that would explain what happened to

17:25

Elizabeth. Kenneth

17:27

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17:29

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20:53

in December of that year. The

20:56

majority of the Crown's case

20:58

had been heard two months

21:00

earlier at a committal hearing

21:02

when prosecutor J.R. Hovul-Furlow Cumming-Bruce

21:04

said that Barlow, a trained

21:07

nurse, had injected his wife

21:09

with insulin at least twice before she

21:11

slipped into a coma and drowned. During

21:16

the trial, Barlow sat in the

21:18

corner of the dock and wept

21:20

openly as the evidence was presented.

21:24

His neighbour Ann Skinner, who had seen Elizabeth

21:26

hours before her death, testified

21:29

Barlow was very much in love with

21:31

his wife and told the court, he

21:35

was kind and considerate towards her right up to the

21:37

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21:42

wanted to be rid of her. I

21:44

never heard any rouse. According

21:49

to Ann Skinner, Elizabeth had

21:51

shared her concerns regarding her

21:54

unplanned pregnancy and on May

21:56

3rd, the day she died, Elizabeth

21:58

confided to Ann that she was going

22:00

to take medication that would quote, get

22:03

rid of the baby. Anne

22:06

urged Elizabeth not to do anything dangerous.

22:09

Elizabeth replied, don't

22:12

worry, I won't kill myself.

22:17

Violet Forsythe worked with Elizabeth at

22:20

the laundrette and told the court

22:22

how she seemed dejected in the

22:24

days before her death. Elizabeth

22:27

had admitted to Violet that she didn't

22:29

want any more children as they already

22:32

had 10-year-old Ian at home. Molly

22:36

Jackson, a secretary at Bradford Infirmary

22:38

said from her point of view,

22:41

the couple appeared to be happy. Kenneth

22:44

Barlow had told her about Elizabeth's

22:46

pregnancy, that Elizabeth had been asking

22:48

him if there was anything she

22:50

could take to end it. Molly

22:54

recalled that Barlow had told his wife

22:56

not to think about it. Solicitor

23:04

General Sir Harry Hilton Foster

23:06

QC led the prosecution. He

23:10

told the jury that apart from the

23:12

scientific evidence, there was nothing

23:14

to justify accusing Barlow of the

23:16

killing, but the Crown

23:18

believed the evidence showed that he had

23:21

injected her with insulin. Sir

23:23

Harry added, you may come

23:26

to the conclusion that he had determined she

23:28

should not bear the child she was then

23:30

carrying, but apart from that

23:32

factor, there is no sort

23:34

or kind of reason outwardly why he

23:36

should have desired her death. Solicitor General Solicitor

23:40

Ellen Simpson, a matron at St

23:42

Luke's Hospital where Kenneth Barlow was

23:45

employed as a charge nurse from

23:47

November 1956 to April 1957, said

23:49

his duties included administering injections. Ellen

23:56

told the court that the accused had

23:58

access to insulin. The matron

24:00

explained that there was no strict checking

24:03

of the number of units used as

24:05

it was not classed as a dangerous

24:07

drug, however she did think

24:09

it was important to mention that

24:11

three ampoules of agometrine which was

24:13

a restricted medication did go

24:15

missing from the ward in early April.

24:20

William Corbridge, a charge nurse who

24:22

had worked with Barlow at Bradford

24:24

Infirmary, said that the defendant

24:26

had spoken to him about finding Elizabeth

24:29

in the bath and the investigation into

24:31

her death. Barlow

24:33

described struggling to lift up his

24:36

wife and attempting to revive her

24:38

after draining the water from the

24:40

bathtub. He

24:42

went on to tell William about the

24:45

discovery of insulin in Elizabeth's system but

24:47

he had no explanation for the

24:50

finding. He thought she

24:52

must have been injected by someone else.

24:56

Barlow did however admit to his

24:58

former colleague that he had administered

25:00

agometrine to Elizabeth. He

25:02

said he had warned her about the dangers

25:05

of taking the drug. When

25:07

William asked Barlow if he was sure

25:09

he hadn't used insulin, Barlow

25:12

said he definitely did not as

25:15

it wouldn't bring on a spontaneous

25:17

miscarriage. The

25:21

defense alleged that Barlow had injected

25:23

his wife with agometrine on six

25:25

occasions at the behest of Elizabeth.

25:29

In response, prosecutor Sir Harry told

25:32

the jury. Whether

25:34

he administered agometrine or not, he may

25:36

very well have induced in his wife

25:39

consent to the process of injection and

25:41

undercover of giving her agometrine to get

25:43

rid of the pregnancy,

25:45

injected insulin. The

25:48

final injections can be shown to

25:50

have been insulin. The relevance of

25:52

agometrine to this case is only

25:54

that it explains how he persuaded

25:56

his unfortunate wife to consent to

25:59

the injection. which killed her.

26:04

Nora Hicks, who had worked with Kenneth

26:07

Barlow at St Luke's Hospital in

26:09

April 1957, testified that he had told

26:11

her about a time when Elizabeth had

26:13

passed out in the bath and

26:15

how he had to lift her out

26:18

and revive her. Barlow

26:21

had not told this story to the

26:23

police when Elizabeth drowned and

26:25

the prosecution alleged that he did not

26:27

even attempt CPR when he found her

26:29

in the bath on May 3rd. Her

26:32

body was on its side and

26:34

bath water was still trapped in the crook

26:37

of her arm when the doctor arrived. As

26:40

she had been moved the water would

26:42

have been displaced. Detective

26:45

Sergeant Naylor recalled how Barlow's

26:47

sleeves were dry and said,

26:50

He did not appear to me to

26:52

be particularly upset. There

26:54

were occasional sobs. They

26:57

didn't appear to be genuine. Further

27:01

damning testimony from several of

27:03

Kenneth Barlow's former colleagues followed.

27:07

Harry Stork had worked alongside Barlow

27:09

at a sanitarium in Drifield two

27:11

years prior. He

27:14

recalled a conversation with the accused

27:16

where Barlow had commented, You

27:19

could commit a perfect murder with

27:21

insulin. It could not

27:23

be traced because it dissolves in the

27:25

bloodstream. Joan

27:27

Waterhouse had been a nursing student

27:30

at East Riding General Hospital in

27:32

Drifield when Barlow worked there in

27:34

1954. She

27:37

recalled how he told her, You

27:40

could kill somebody with insulin as it cannot

27:42

be found very easily in the body unless

27:45

it is a very large dose.

27:52

Kenneth Barlow entered the witness box.

27:56

During questioning by his counsel

27:58

Bernard Gillis QC, He

28:00

continued to deny injecting Elizabeth

28:02

with insulin. Barlow

28:04

said he was deeply in love with his

28:06

wife and always would be.

28:10

Gillis told the jury that to convict

28:12

the defendant they would have to be

28:14

sure that it was proven that there

28:16

was insulin in Elizabeth's body, that

28:18

the insulin resulted in a coma that

28:20

led to her drowning and that

28:22

Barlow had been the one to inject her

28:25

with the drug. The

28:28

prosecutor would argue that there was

28:30

enough evidence to exclude a gomitrine

28:33

or natural causes in Elizabeth's death

28:35

and the complex experiments had concluded that

28:38

there was more than enough insulin in

28:40

her system to cause death or a

28:42

coma. As

28:46

he was summing up the case Mr.

28:48

Justice Diplock said that the greatest

28:50

skill and care had been applied

28:52

to find Elizabeth's cause of death.

28:56

Valuable information has been obtained which

28:58

will be of value in other

29:00

cases if other cases

29:02

of this kind shall arise. After

29:09

85 minutes of deliberations

29:12

the jury returned with a verdict on December

29:14

13th 1957. Despite

29:19

insisting that he did not inject

29:21

his wife with insulin, Kenneth

29:24

Barlow was found guilty of

29:26

murdering Elizabeth. Before

29:30

Judge Diplock had a chance to

29:32

pass the sentence Barlow

29:34

called out I did

29:36

not murder my wife. Somewhere

29:39

someone must know something more than

29:41

has come out in this court

29:43

and I would beg leave to

29:45

appeal. Mr.

29:48

Justice Diplock described Elizabeth's

29:50

death as a cold,

29:53

cruel, carefully premeditated murder

29:55

which but for a high degree of

29:58

detective ability would not have been found

30:00

out. Kenneth

30:03

Barlow was sentenced to life

30:05

in prison. So

30:14

where are we now? Kenneth

30:18

Barlow attempted to appeal his

30:20

conviction without success. At

30:24

the time of his release in 1984 he was the second-longest

30:28

serving prisoner in the UK.

30:32

Page 65 Barlow had been

30:34

moved from HMP Kingston to

30:36

Lake Hill open prison near

30:38

Bristol. A

30:41

portion of his sentence was served in

30:43

Wakefield. His

30:45

release had been delayed for weeks

30:48

following an anonymous call from someone

30:50

who felt compelled to report that

30:52

Kenneth Barlow's first wife Nancy had

30:54

also been killed in the same

30:56

manner as Elizabeth. Nancy

30:59

had not died in a bathtub but

31:02

her death was suspicious. She

31:05

was unable to communicate what had happened

31:07

as she was in a coma before

31:09

she passed away. After

31:13

an investigation was undertaken it

31:16

was ruled that Nancy Barlow's

31:18

untimely demise was caused by

31:20

encephalitis. Therefore

31:22

it was agreed that Kenneth Barlow

31:24

could be released on license. A

31:28

friend of Barlow's read Stancliffe who had

31:30

been campaigning for his release and exoneration

31:32

for decades said,

31:36

we talked about freedom and

31:38

he said he did not know if he wanted it now. After

31:43

being incarcerated for so long Barlow

31:46

was eager to be reunited with his son Ian.

31:50

He firmly believed Ian could help

31:53

him prove that he had not

31:55

killed Elizabeth. By then his son had reached

31:57

middle age and had a family. Lee

32:00

off his eye. Ian's

32:02

wife said, ''We have made

32:04

our life away from him. We

32:07

want nothing to do with him in any way at

32:09

all. He has never

32:11

seen his grandchildren, and they are

32:13

unaware of him.'' Ian's

32:16

solicitor added, ''Our client

32:18

was only ten years old at the time

32:21

of this incident. He

32:23

has no information or recollection

32:25

which could assist Mr. Barlow

32:27

in establishing his innocence.'' Kenneth

32:33

Barlow was the first person convicted of

32:35

murder with the use of insulin, but

32:38

many others followed suit. In

32:42

1974, Sister Jesse McTavish, a

32:44

nurse at Rockhill Hospital in

32:46

Glasgow, was convicted of murdering

32:48

an elderly patient with a

32:50

drug. Sister

32:53

McTavish was freed on appeal the

32:55

following year due to a judicial

32:57

error, but her case was used

32:59

in nursing lectures at Dundee University

33:01

and has been said to have

33:04

inspired one former student Colin Norris

33:06

to commit the same crime. During

33:09

a trial in 2008, Norris

33:12

was found guilty by majority

33:14

verdict of murdering four patients.

33:18

The prosecution argued that the

33:20

elderly patient's deaths were due

33:22

to hypoglycemia, which it was

33:24

alleged had been caused by

33:26

insulin injections. Other

33:29

notorious UK cases where insulin was

33:31

used include nurses Beverly Alleth, who

33:34

was convicted of killing four babies

33:36

in 1993, and

33:39

Lucy Letby, who was convicted of killing

33:41

seven babies in August 2023. Letby

33:46

attempted to kill two of her victims

33:49

with insulin, Which was what

33:51

alerted medical staff to her actions.

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