Maxine McGill
Appearances
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
And he's been outside and he's like left. some flowers and chocolates on the, like, outside window sill and, like, he walked off. He's not done anything, but I'm just, I'm concerned. I've been putting off, like, my friends have been telling me to call the police. I've been putting that off, but I just feel a bit, like, shaken up tonight, so.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
Can I try that option, please?
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
It's Ruggles, and that's R-U-G-G-L-E-S.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
Well, his name's Harry Dillon, but he's got, like, a seat name, which is Trimmon.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
Yeah, well, I've dropped his number. We've got two phones. I've dropped both numbers. So he's been sending me Gmail messages. I haven't. because I don't want him to start emailing my work email, but I haven't replied to them. Then he's also made a fake Snapchat account to try and contact me on.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
Thank you, go ahead, call it. Please, I've just come back to my flat and the door was locked, so I crawled through the window and my flatmate's covered in blood in the bathroom. Is she breathing? I don't know, I can't look, I'm sorry. Okay, try and stay calm. trying to take on. What's your address? It's rolling roads. Is she covered in blood, did you say? Yes. Okay, bear with us two seconds.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
Gateshead. What's your name? Maxine. Maxine. What's your name, Maxine? Yeah, what's your surname, Maxine? Maxine McGill. MC McGill. MC G-I-L-L. Okay. And the door was open? No, it wasn't open. It was locked and I crawled through my window and it was open in the back door and she's lying covered in blood. She's blue. So you had to go through the window? Yes. Back door's open?
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
No, the back door wasn't open. No, everything was locked.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
So yeah, yeah, yeah. Housemate is in the bathroom. Is she in the bath or? I don't know. I don't know. Can you have a look and see if she's breathing for the ambulance? She's not, she's not. She's not breathing? No, she looks, no. Where's the blood from? It's everywhere, I don't know. Her leg looks broken, everything. Say it again, sorry. Her leg looks broken, everything, but I don't know.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
I've got one of my colleagues on the phone in the ambulance. Is she in the bath? She's in the bathroom. She's in the bathroom. Alice! Alice! How much blood is there? There's lots. It's everywhere. It's everywhere. At least if she was in the shower. Everything's been knocked over. At least if she's been attacked. Please help. Oh my God, I can't even go in. I'm so scared. I'm so scared.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
Trying to stay calm. You're doing really well. Things have been tipped over in the bathroom. Yes, and everything looks a mess. Like, she's not breathing. She's actually blue. Give us two seconds.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
Jenny, anybody seen anybody round about here? Listen, sweetheart. I'm telling my colleague to get the ambulance to give you a ring because she's blue. Please, I can't do it. Can I get my neighbor to do it, please?
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
I can't do it. Is your neighbor with you? No, I mean, I'm going to check the door. Oh, my God. What's your cold? She's cold, darling. Alice? Alice, are you awake? Alice? I don't want to touch her. I really don't want to touch her. Right. Is your neighbour there with you? No. No. It's just kids out the front, please. She's dead, aren't you? She's dead. She's blue. Is an officer travelling?
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
Is the ambulance travelling, Cathy? Please. Please, I need somebody here right now. I know you do. We're getting to you as soon as we can. Okay, just try and stay calm. Try and stay calm. Try and calm down. Try and breathe. You're doing really, really well. You've done the right thing by giving us a ring. Try and breathe. I know it's very difficult. She's having a shock.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
She's trying to stay calm. Oh, she's trying. Please help me. I know. How old's Alice? She's only 23. I mean, knew this was coming. Her ex is an absolute psychopath. Say that again, sorry. She put in a complaint about her ex, and she wrote 101 at the weekend to report that you started getting contact, and she says, we're going to do nothing, and now this has happened. Right.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
Who tried to contact her at the weekend? No, she contacted 101 because she put in a statement about him two weeks ago. About who? Her ex-boyfriend, Harry Dillon. Right, so have they, she been having problems with her ex? Yes. So do you think that's what it is? Yeah, I can hear the siren. What's he called? Sorry? What's he called, the ex? Harry Dillon. Harry? Dillon. Dillon. Yeah.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
In your concern, he might be responsible.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
Right, okay. Did you hear any disturbing? Listen, listen. Ask your neighbour. Boys. I actually heard voices. So, yes, I think it's definitely him. Hi. Hi, sorry. Why do you think it's him? Because he was threatening to do bad things to her and stuff. Like, oh, sorry. My neighbour, my mother's flatmate. I can hear the police are coming. Yeah, they're saying they're with you.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
I'll wait with you until they're actually with you.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
You're doing really well. You're doing really well, Maxine.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
Hi there, I just need a bit of advice really, more than anything. And so I split up with my boyfriend about three months ago. And since then, I know that he's hacked into my Facebook and also my phone. And he's been sending me a lot of messages, even though I've asked him not to contact me. And basically, like, just messaging my friends and things. And then tonight, I had a knock at my door.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: The Horrific Murder of Alice Ruggles
Well, he sent me a message saying, I've been in the garden since five. I had a knock at my door. And then when I went in, I've got like a little, you know, the thing that you can look through. And there was no one there. And then it happened again two or three times. And then he's come round the back, knocked on my bedroom window at the back of my flat, ground floor flat.