18th May 2018
THE shock revelation this week that Sarah Ristevski is listed as Crown witness in the murder case against her father has inevitably led to speculation that she has turned against him.
Daughter to testify in dad’s murder case
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It will be interesting to see if she is categorized as a hostile witness, or just a witness.
She is going to have to lay out just what went down that morning, in excruciating detail, and be subjected to hard cross examination by Borce's barrister,( because he has to, he can't let Sarah get a skerrick of sympathy with the jury,) whoever that may be, since Starry hit the deck.
Tuff times for Borce. Not pleasant, and he is all alone in that dock, accused of the murder and consequent interference with her corpse, and the cover up, and perverting the course of justice, and wasting police time, and in general annoying on a daily basis the rightfully cranky detectives of Vic Pol, who had to find that body , put up with Borce and Vlasko AND Antony, and Sarah. Not pleasant for them, either.
But since we all are paying for his defence, we might as well sit back and enjoy it, bring it on, I say. Let his barrister do his/her worst, let loose the spiked tongue of the Public Prosecutor, and give muscle to the Judge's arm all day, all week.
(Justice Beale is a bloke of firm and unyielding expectations of how his court will run, he is remembered for booting out of court a terrorists wife who had the bright idea of rocking up to the Supreme Court clad in a face covering burqua/ niquab. 'Out', said Justice Chris Beale, being in no mood to put up with unidentifiable women in his court.
The Victorian Supreme Court said in statement: "Each individual judge is empowered to give directions on a case-by-case basis on who can enter the courtroom."
Professor Jeremy Gans, from the Melbourne Law School, said "a judge's courtroom is his castle" and they have the power to dictate exactly how they want their courtroom to operate. )
