yes. hence why I cannot be of much use in explaining anything, it mostly went over my head and wasn't as exciting a day as Friday. All money talk, quite an incompetent sounding solicitor and then Mr Hurley. Interesting to put a face to the name though as Helen even thanked him personally in the Bikinis book.
Highlights of today was IS crying in the dock. Note that he did not "shake" that is a journalistic embellishment. He was just getting emotional and was handed a box of tissues, precisely at the point that Tony Hurley said: “She basically said to me: ‘If anything, god forbid happens to me, the one thing I want to make sure is that Ian and the boys have the security of this house.’ “Helen was clear she wished to marry Ian Stewart, but not completely about the timetable.” and then also at the point where Hurley said he had to apologise to Ian for not believing him that HB wanted to marry him.
One funny bit was when Tony Hurley was asked when his last correspondence with HB was. He said that he received an email from her saying something like, she had just woken up in the middle of the night and remembered that as part of a longer list of things she had to sort out, she had to discuss a few unresolved matters with him. The defence then said "so she was thinking about you in the middle of the night!" as if to try and cast some vague suspicion on Tony Hurley. It was a cheesy and desperate line by the defence. He also said that Mr Hurley would not have known things that HB didn't want him to know(?) and that she was an intelligent woman who was able to keep secrets from him. This then is trying to portray HB as a woman with secrets and shadows in her life (people like Joe and Nick!). But Simon Russell-Flint QC for the defence must know what his chances of success are by now, and so maybe he's just throwing anything out there to pick up the cheque. He's quite a suave silk though.
Family in attendance that I could recognise was John Bailey, Fraser Dyer, and Jamie Stewart. As has previously been discussed, Jamie Stewart is on positive terms with the Baileys. At no point have I seen Jamie Stewart try and communicate with his father (it would be quite easy to do, IS is right there next to the door).