I've got a lot of catching up to do, but this is from the podcast.
The Defendant Takes the Stand
Evidence in chief
He said he heard RH take his shotgun out of the car in the dark. It was dark between 9 and 10pm when the confrontations unfolded.
He had a torch but didn’t have one with him when the struggle took place or when he returned to his car later. He did have a torch when he was cleaning up the scene. RH’s camp was well illuminated but he still had a torch with him.
Bits and pieces were found around the campsite. There was blood spatter on the hitching rails and the tray base of the Toyota, some on the inside of the canopy and he wiped all that off. There was nothing on the passenger door or forward of the passenger door. It was all after where CC was. Solar panels were leaning against the rear left wheel of the Toyota when this happened. They had quite a lot of blood and other material on them and over the camp furniture which was in front of the tent. Some of it had been knocked over. Some of those pieces were covered in a lot of tissue and blood and there was a very large pool of blood on the ground in between the Toyota and the tent where CC was.
GL had blood on his clothes.
He brought a rifle and a shotgun on the trip. The shotgun had been used for thick forest where it would be darker and he’d only be aiming for 20-30 metres for a deer. He also used a laser site because the environment is darker and it was quite useful. It threw out a laser beam and showed where a solid slug would fly through the air. He reasoned that in the struggle over the gun, the shot had gone through the side mirror of the car, and that if someone had shot CC with the laser site on, the laser would have illuminated the mirror and not her. He destroyed the mirror when cleaning the camp and burning the campsite.
The evening after the deaths, after destroying evidence and moving the bodies, he stayed at a campsite called The Pines near Jamieson on his drive home. Here he burned the RH’s drone, keys and kitchen knife he said caused RH’s death. He threw the phones in the Rose River as he wanted to erase all his involvement in what had happened as they might have had photographs of him or his vehicle.
He denies having any intention to hurt or kill RH or CC. During his struggles with RH, his intention was trying to get the shotgun from him the first time and trying to defend himself the second time. He burned his bloody clothes.
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