Why should he, In court HaB said the mark could have been a run in the tights worn by her attacker confirming the prosecution case surrounding a possible scar/tattoo or mark is weak.It's all a moot point until a verdict is handed out.
There was absolutely no ambiguity in HB's court statement about her assailant's eyes which she had seen close up and personal. As did the trial judge when she asked CB to approach the bench.
Two days later expert testimony supported HB's description 100%
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"When you spend time in that situation as a person and there‘s nothing else that you can see of this human, other than their eyes, it's the only thing you remember."
She compared them to "lights" during the night-time assault. "They were so bright. I just know them."
Near the close of the day's session, the judge asked CB to approach the bench - apparently in order to examine his eyes.
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HB had told the court on Wednesday that the man who assaulted her spoke English with a German accent and
had a mark on his thigh.
A rape that CB had already been convicted of bore a strong similarity to her own ordeal, she said, prompting her to come forward.
Referring to the defendant on Thursday, she told the court: "I believe this man is the attacker."
His bright blue eyes were "bored into my skull," the woman tells the trial of Christian Brückner.
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Do you know verbatim what HB said in further description of her assailant in her testimony? I don't. But no matter.
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The prosecutor said:
'At this point
he was dressed entirely in black, wearing leather gloves and a full face mask. This only had
two round cutouts for the eyes and a small slit for the mouth, so that
the injured party could only see the accused's eyes and his eyebrows'.
GRAPHIC CONTENT: Convicted rapist Brueckner, 47, is accused of three rapes and two sex assaults said to have been carried out on Portugal's Algarve coast in a period from 2000 to 2017.
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HB saw the mark her rather grotesquely attired assailant had on his thigh. Although through his black tights.
And I think there may well be 'before and after' photographs in existence which could well settle the argument; unfortunately secrecy laws have been invoked which means we probably never will. One can only wonder why neither CB nor his lawyers want them to be seen
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Asked for a description of the perpetrator, she reported in court of a "dark spot" on the man's leg, which was visible through the tight pants.
With the consent of the accused, an
identification measure had been carried out on him in the summer of 2022, during which corresponding photos were taken. According to the public prosecutor's office at the time, the images and information obtained were to be compared, among other things, with descriptions of perpetrators by witnesses. However, nothing has been known about possible results so far.
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The witness had described a
cross-shaped scar on the perpetrator's thigh. This excludes his client as the perpetrator. "The person who committed this act was not the accused," said Fülscher.
Mit der Aussage eines Gutachters wurde der Prozess gegen den auch im Fall Maddie verdächtigen Christian B. fortgesetzt. Am Vormittag ging es zunächst um Augenfarben.
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Christian B., the main suspect in the MM case, appeals to the German data protection law to prevent pictures of him from being shown in court. The photos in his health record are said to show a birthmark on one of his thighs. The marking makes B. the
main suspect for the rape of Irishwoman Hazel Behan.
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The public prosecutor's office has filed a motion to show pictures from B's health record in court. But as long as the suspect does not give his consent, the photos cannot be made public.
Der Hauptverdächtige im Fall Maddie steht wegen der Vergewaltigung an der Irin Hazel Behan vor Gericht.
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