Charmain Speirs was 40 years old when she met prophet Eric Adusah. For several years Charmain had been part of one of the fastest-growing Christian movements in the world, Pentecostalism. Through her faith, she appeared to discover the happiness she'd been struggling to find but there was still something missing.
"She'd just had enough of normal men," her friend Anne-Marie says. "She wanted that man of God. She wanted what was promised for her.
"Then she said: 'I've met someone, a famous preacher'." Her new love interest was the head pastor of Global Light Revival Church. Originally from Ghana, Adusah appeared regularly on Christian television channels. In his church he was called a prophet, and was believed to receive and share divine revelation directly from God.
Charmain met the prophet in spring 2014 and after a whirlwind romance they married in September that year. Six months later Charmain was dead, her body found in a bathtub in a hotel in Ghana. Adusah was arrested on suspicion of murder but was later released due to lack of evidence.
He has denied any involvement in Charmain's death. More than a decade on, a BBC Disclosure investigation has uncovered significant omissions from his account of what happened at the hotel where Charmain died. The documentary series – Charmain and the Prophet – also hears from Adusah's former partners who claim he is a danger to women.
Charmain grew up in Arbroath, a small fishing town on Scotland's east coast, in the 1970s and 80s. Her mum Linda was a cleaner and her dad Peter was a plumber. Friends describe her as a "social butterfly" who people gravitated towards.
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