What happened to Faye Caliman?

Publish date: 2024-04-04

FAYE Caliman was brutally murdered by her husband following years of physical and emotional abuse back in 2018.

An episode on the new Netflix documentary My Lover My Killer examines the murder and the devastating impact it's had on Faye's family.

Who was Faye Caliman?

Faye Caliman, 30, was murdered by her estranged husband Marian Caliman back in 2018.

The pair met in 2014 on a night out, and decided to marry the following year.

She and Marian welcomed a daughter the same year.

Faye already had two daughters from a previous relationship.

What happened to Faye Caliman?

The mother-of-three was filmed by her partner while he brutally stabbed her 12 times at their Bestwood Village home in Nottinghamshire in April 2018.

The pair had separated six weeks prior to her murder following years of physical and emotional abuse.

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In 2017, Faye managed to gather the courage to leave Marian, and started to turn her life around.

She changed jobs and was earning more money, and had reconnected with friends and family.

But little did she know, her new found confidence would lead to her death.

On the night she died, she was due to go to her mother Stella Williams's house, for a movie night with her youngest daughter.

Marian tried to stop Faye from going and said he wouldn't be looking after their daughter when she next went to work.

Faye's mother offered to look after the child herself, which enraged Marian.

That same night, he drove over to her house and a heated argument broke out, and he eventually took her life while filming it.

Caliman eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 19 years without parole at Nottingham Crown Court in September 2018.

Her two eldest daughters now live with their father, and her daughter with Marian lives with her mum.

What has her family said?

Faye's family were left distraught after finding out about her death.

When police arrived at Faye's mum's houme to inform her of her daughter's murders, they had to tell her twice as she lost her vision and hearing from the shock of the tragic news.

Speaking about Marian, Stella said: “He wormed his way into our lives but he was an evil piece of work.”

Family and friends of Faye had to painfully watch the video the abuser recorded of his wife in court, and it continues to haunt Stella to this day.

She said: "I knew what the video would look like but seeing it and hearing it, you just don't understand the feelings that run through you,"

She continued: "I saw exactly where the knife was positioned, the phone. The only thing I didn't know was what she was wearing, and what she would be saying.'

As she broke down in tears, she said: "To see the footage, that was crippling, and I never never seen her like that.

"She knew she was going to die, she was saying all sorts just to get out of it, begging him. 

"And that, on my worst days, on my lowest days, that haunts me."

Stella only realised the extent of her son-in-law's abuse when she saw Faye covered in bruises in April 2017.

She said: “She had a black eye and black ­strangulation marks on her neck. When we asked her about it she said she was working on her marriage. I wish now I put more pressure on her to leave.

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“But she hid a lot of things. She gave him lots of chances to change but he never did.

"It was always his way or no way. And when she chose her way, she paid with her life.”

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