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# Chris Halliwell: profile of murder suspect in Sian O'Callaghan investigation
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## Chris Halliwell moved from job to job before settling down as a taxi
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driver 10 years ago.
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![Sian O'Callaghan][1]
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Sian O'Callaghan Photo: PA
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By John Bingham and Victoria Ward 11:19AM GMT 26 Mar 2011
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Declared bankrupt last January, the 47-year-old had only been working for Five
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Star private hire in Swindon for a couple of weeks before he was arrested.
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Not new to the taxi scene, he was known by the other local drivers for the
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fact that he always used to wear a suit to work.
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Previously employed by United Radio Cars, he had also tried his hand at
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construction and window cleaning.
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He married wife Lisa in July 1991 and the couple went on to have three
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children - two daughter and a son.
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They met when he was 23 and she was just 16 and lived in the Broad Green area
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of Swindon with their children.
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## Related Articles
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* [Former cycling champion dies after alleged assault][2]
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26 Mar 2011
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* [Crowd attacks van carrying suspect][3]
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28 Mar 2011
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* [Sian O'Callaghan murder][4]
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28 Mar 2011
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Yesterday, neighbours in Broad Green recalled a strained marriage.
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"They were living together but they weren't getting on well," said one former
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neighbour.
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"There were problems between husband and wife, then they moved away from here
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and then after they moved away from here they got divorced."
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Originally a window cleaner, Mr Halliwell lived in a rented flat on the County
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Road in Swindon before moving into a two-up two down terrace in nearby Broad
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Street with his girlfriend Lisa Byrne, a shop assistant, in the late 1980s.
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Her father, Tony, a builder, and Sylvia, a former bus conductor, lived
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opposite and the family was staunchly Catholic.
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By the time they married at Holy Rood Roman Catholic Church in 1991, Mr
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Halliwell was working with his father-in-law as a builder.
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Neighbours still remember his large transit van parked outside their house.
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Dennis Sutton, who married the young couple in 1999, said he knew Lisa's
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family.
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"I do remember the event but didn't really stay in touch with them," he said.
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"I knew Lisa's family better as they were Catholic.
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"I am shocked about all this. You never imagine such things happen so close to
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home."
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The couple later moved a few miles away to Ashbury Avenue, but about five
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years ago Mr Halliwell moved in with Heather Widdowson, who lived a few doors
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down.
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"He moved away with his missus but then moved in with another woman up the
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street, she was a bit older than him," recalled the former owner of the corner
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shop at Broad Street.
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He proudly introduced her to his former neighbours as his "new missus".
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Speaking about Mr Halliwell's arrest, the shop owner said: "He is the last
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person I would have thought would have done anything like this.
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"He was all right, a family man, I used to have a laugh with him, when he
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moved away he used to pop in."
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His sister Sarah, from whom he is estranged, said she hadn't spoken to him for
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nearly 20 years and both their parents are dead.
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