She confided in her mother that their marriage was on the rocks and she was planning to move home.
But then she got on the bus to London before flying out to Ghana. Her mum would never see her again.
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.
He wasn’t just a pastor. 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.
At 19 she moved to Glasgow where she had numerous jobs in shops, restaurants and bars.
Her friend Linsey tells the documentary that Charmain had several relationships, some volatile, and she briefly ended up in a women’s refuge.
Back home, her family also faced tough times.
She lost one brother in a car crash, then her youngest brother became addicted to heroin.
About the age of 30, Charmain moved to Swansea to start a new life and to study photojournalism.
A few years later, in 2007, she had a baby boy who she named Isaac.
As a single mum, Charmain struggled with post-natal depression – that’s when she found religion.
She joined the newly established Liberty Church and became an enthusiastic member.
Adusah was mainly based in London, preaching as head pastor of another Pentecostal church.
They met through a Christian dating site and within weeks, an engagement was announced.
Charmain’s mum Linda Speirs was stunned when her daughter contacted her to say she was getting married – because she hadn’t even told her she had a boyfriend.
Friends told the BBC that, as the relationship progressed, they went from seeing her daily to barely at all.
About six months after first meeting, Charmain was married and had become the wife of a prophet, referred to as the first lady by members of the church.
Bridesmaid Mehrunissa Thomas says: “She had gone from just being a normal person and suddenly she was this celebrity.”
Charmain appeared to embrace the role.
But her friend Anne-Marie says that when she visited, she got a different picture of Charmain’s married life.
Anne-Marie told the programme: “She said basically: ‘He doesn’t show me any love. There’s no love, there’s no passion’ was her words.”
Charmain, now pregnant with Adusah’s baby, travelled back to Arbroath to spend some time with her mum.
It was the first time Linda had seen her since the wedding.
She confided in her mother that their marriage was on the rocks and she was planning to move home.
But then she got on the bus to London before flying out to Ghana. Her mum would never see her again.
