The Moment Jeremy Kyle host Steve Dymond was told lie detector tests were ‘highly accurate’ a week before he died in a suspected suicide – as never-before-seen footage was played to question him.

Footage of a Jeremy Kyle Show host who died days after appearing on the show has been played at an inquest into his death.

Steve Dymond, 63, is believed to have taken his own life seven days after filming the show in May 2019.

Kyle, 59, was accused of “throwing Mr Dymond under the bus” and “tricking” listeners to his show into praising him after the lie detector test concluded that he is not trustworthy.

And, today at Winchester Coroner’s Court, the time he took the test was revealed.

In the video, the polygraph examiner breaks down how the test will work, and his role in it – while a 63-year-old man sits and listens.

Mr Dymond asks the man, who was contracted by ITV to carry out the operation, if the test is ‘99.9%’ accurate.

The examiner then tells him ‘They are 95% correct’ with a ‘low risk of error’.

The polygraph expert also tells Mr Dymond that ‘if you fail one question, you fail a lot’.

The clips also show Mr Dymond watching a video introducing him to the test which advises the participant to be ‘truthful, open and honest’.

Chris Wissun, director of news rules at ITV at the time, returned to the witness box this morning.

He explained that the test is ‘a very specific form of program editors’.

Mr Wissun said: ‘The result of the test would be given by the polygraph examiner to the manufacturer.

The producer would not reveal the result to the producer, the results would be given to him during the program.

He would open the envelope and reveal the results and tell the guests what the results were.

‘There was an element of drama in that moment.’

It comes as Winchester Coroner’s Court today heard how one member of the show’s team joked in a private chat group that Mr Dymond was ‘in tears twice lol x’.

It was also heard how the 63-year-old broke down in tears when filming ended and was allowed to leave the studio after telling the producer “I wish I was I’m dead”.

The investigation was told that the members of the production team of the show had a WhatsApp group to communicate with the guests before, and after filming.

Another message from the producer on May 2, 2019, reads: ‘Would you please come and see Mr Dymond, who wants to meet you.

‘It could be emotional – he has tears in his eyes twice lol x.’

The message was said to have been sent at around 10.20am, which is understood to be before filming began.

Another text was read after filming, which read: ‘You know, she’s crying.

‘I think it’s still in this room around.

‘He just said “I wish I was dead” – just a nod.’

Mr Wissun told the hearing that Mr Dymond was talking to members of the production team and aftercare nurses from the time the film finished at around 12:45pm until he left the studio at 2.30pm.

He said: ‘I believe the researcher said that visitors would often give such comments in the heat of the moment immediately after the recording.

But they would be quiet or calm, and it wouldn’t be how they felt when they left the studio.

“When Mr. Dymond left the studio no one felt that there were any problems.

‘Obviously he was upset about the lie detector test but the production team understood that he was going home and could talk to his partner and the production team spoke to him the next day to see how as he is.’

A court this week heard that the 63-year-old died at home from a morphine overdose and left ventricular hypertrophy in his heart.

He was diagnosed with depression in 1995 and had overdosed four times – in January 1995, twice in December 2002 and in April 2005, the inquest heard.

The court was told that he again tried to cut his hands in December 2002. Mr Wissun previously told the court that Mr Dymond was rejected when he first applied to the program because he disclosed that he had He was diagnosed with depression and prescribed anti-depressants.

He said the producer created a draft title for Mr Dymond’s first application on April 9 which read ‘Missing viagra and lies about being in the navy, are you a fraud?’

Mr Wissun said the subsequent letter from Mr Dymond’s GP, which asked to support the second application, was a ‘very unusual circumstance’.

The former director continued: ‘We were told that was very unusual, the fact that Mr Dymond, when he was rejected the first time, re-applied for the show by getting GP certificate.

‘We were told that it was a very rare situation, one of the aftercare team had never seen a guest give a prescription to try to support their participation before.

‘There was no established procedure on how to treat the GP’s prescription, in Mr Dymond’s case it was taken at face value.’

He added that Mr. Dymond was given a one-on-one examination even though he received a doctor’s prescription.

Mr Wissun said the lie detector test was not given to anyone diagnosed with depression.

He added: “The lie detector test was part of the program that was used by the program throughout its time.

‘Many visitors who would have been able to apply to come to the exhibition specifically to take a lying machine as Mr Dymond did.’

Mr Wissun said the show recognized ‘early on’ the need to provide back-end services which he said extended to providing welfare team support to guests ‘at all stages of recording’.

He added: ‘The demonstration was not aimed at people who are unstable, the role of the process was only people who were able to participate and who had mental health skills to take part. part they should do.

‘It is true that the show wanted people to participate who have a problem or a problem, it was the main goal of the show to try to communicate and solve problems.’

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