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'THE LAST STRAW'
Tragic Jeremy Kyle Show guest Steve Dymond was dumped, sacked and hunted by cops before failing lie detector test
Pals described his appearance on the controversial show as 'the last straw'
TRAGIC Jeremy Kyle Show guest Steve Dymond had been dumped by his fiancée, lost his job and had a warrant out for his arrest before he appeared on the programme and failed a lie detector test, it has emerged.
Pals described his appearance on the controversial show as “the last straw” following a series of blows in his personal life.
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The digger driver, 63, first split from Jane Callaghan in February after she accused him of cheating on her with his ex. He went on the show in an attempt to prove to Jane she was wrong.
Less than a week after the break-up, he was sacked from his job at Daedalus airfield in Gosport, Hants, after accidentally knocking down a timber barrier.
Friends said the incidents marked the start of a downward spiral that culminated in Steve being found dead in his Portsmouth bedsit last week. Ambulance officials said he had been dead for “a number of days”.
One pal told The Sun: “He was very upset before going on the show. Steve and Jane had been together for two years and he loved her. But she said he was a compulsive liar and they claimed to have hit one another.
“He said he was doing the show to make Jane happy and save the relationship.
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“He was soft-hearted — a nice guy. Nobody deserves to get to the point where they take their own life.”
Steve was subject to an arrest warrant at the time of his death after he failed to appear in court.
He had been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 compensation in 1997 for two counts of theft. He was due before JPs in Southampton in February — the month he split from Jane — for the non-payment of £4,329, but did not show.
Tragic Steve Dymond told his son that Jeremy Kyle “really laid into” him when he went on his show and failed the lie detector test.
He made an emotional call to his son Carl Woolley, 39, after the programme was filmed.
The pair had not spoken for seven years but Steve’s highly emotional state led to another relative putting them in touch.
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Mr Woolley, a health and safety adviser, said: “I called after he got home from filming the episode. He was distraught over the break-up of the relationship.
“He had gone on the show solely to clear his name but he said it had gone wrong because of the lie detector test. He was adamant that he didn’t lie. He was so upset that he wasn’t making much sense but he just kept repeating, ‘I haven’t cheated, Carl, I swear I haven’t cheated’.”
Carl added: “He told me, ‘Kyle really laid into me’.
“Presumably that was at the point when they announced the lie detector result. I’m satisfied he intended to kill himself.”
Carl told the Daily Mail that Steve left a note addressed to him. In it, Carl said, Steve apologised and asked him to “not to hate him for what he has done”.
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ITV has launched a review into the episode featuring the couple, but a spokesman said a “comprehensive assessment” is carried out on all guests.
He added: “Throughout filming, participants are supported by the guest welfare team. After filming has ended, all guests are seen by a member of the team
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