Millie, I agree with your succinct observations
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however I think all concerned will do their utmost to keep him "safe".
IMO from being around at the trial, I have a very strong gut feeling that there is a huge determination for justice to be done!! I think previous history adds very much to this determination to out the truth.
I also strongly feel that IS simply cannot take the stand. Whist at the start maybe there was a chance depending on how things unfolded, in light of the way the facts have simply and calmly and undramatically come out, (thanks hugely to the dignity and factual answering of questions of the key witnesses), I think the penny may have dropped that it is hopeless for IS to take the stand and will do nothing but strengthen the already strong case against him. Already his defence is both ludicrous and laughable, and to have him on the stand to probe his two dimensional garbage well...!! And he looks empty and terribly afraid and in shock and to me anyway, seems totally incapable of stringing a sentence together , let alone give coherent answers to stringent questioning.
He is in a corner for sure. He cannot take the stand. He cannot even plead guilty (plea bargaining?) because this is no "ordinary murder" (sorry for that but if you get my drift...) In no particular order but just my own thoughts -
- the revulsion of where Helen`s body was found
- the inevitable questions over the sudden death of his first wife
-the loss of his two sons
-the fact of his previously good reputation and standing
He know he will lose absolutely everything. The loss of the money he thought was sure to come his way, and the thought of a very, very long prison sentence (which I don`t think he will survive well at all) in my view are less traumatic than the points above.
He is well and truly stuffed. Every which way.
I think he will have a massive breakdown...actually I think that process has begun.
All in my own view of course!
Michelle