Just a quick post - I went to court today as well. My observations in point form for ease of posting and so I can just put them as I remember, not in any specific order ( sorry
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* if you want to go and sit in on the trial - go early and line up. It's a mad house !
* the interviews shown today of the girls taken in June were at the Surfers Paradise police station. They were interviewed by 2 women child protection officers. They were just lovely with the girls.
* an interview shown at the indooroopilly police station in April was by 2 male interviewers. Very gentle questioning.
* lots of supporters for Alison today. More arrived after lunch for both sides and at one stage it looked like the public gallery was going to be filled with just relatives. ( of both sides )
* I thought Mrs BC was trying to appear happy but looked terrible. Eyes puffy under her makeup.
* Olivia's husband was in the courtroom.
* the BC clan didn't arrive until quite late this morning, walking in not long before proceedings started.
* Nigel Nigel Nigel :banghead:..... My guess is he will be saying a lot of "I don't recall" How convenient he doesn't have a police statement to jog his memory.
* when he corrected the Prosecutor for the name pronunciation I could not believe my ears. What a hide !
* when he mentioned about going to the BC house and Alison having the curtains drawn and lying on the couch I saw some of her friends look in shock at each other then shake their heads quietly chuckling. My impression of that was they thought he was making it up.
* He made sure to make mention if Allisons 'depression' very early in the questioning.
* the prosecutor asking him the questions wasn't Danny Boyle. In fact Danny Boyle only returned to the room about half way through the questioning.
He asked the questions clearly and with no break between. Nigel didn't really have time to think when giving an answer. A couple of times he asked him to repeat a question and in my opinion only was he was madly trying to give himself time to think of an answer.
Occasionally he took time to think before he would answer the question.
The prosecutor gave him alllll the time he wanted to answer questions and just let him ramble on when he wanted to ( let him dig a nice deep hole for himself
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Nigel couldn't recall if Olivia and the children were present at their house for the play / swim/ BBQ on the evening of the 19th. Further in the questioning the prosecutor said something to the effect of that afternoon were the children of OW all playing with the BC children and he said yes !
It was 'Robs' house that Gerard wanted prepared for the Saturday. Nigel was going to vacuum and water the plants on the Friday. He offered to help Gerrard with anything on the Friday while GBC was with the police and this is what GBC asked him to do.
The evening of the 18th of April both Nigel and Elaine babysat whilst GBC and Allison went out for a quick coffee. The girls were already in bed when they arrived. When they arrived back home the 4 of them sat around talking about the new nephew that had been born that day in Canada.
Bwana was well spoken with a South African accent.
That's all I can remember for the moment. May add more tomorrow as I think of it. Apologies for any grammar or spelling errors , I'm really tired :blushing: