Hi all, just catching up! Thank you Harchmare again for the updates!
I think he is contradicting himself quite a lot in his story. Earlier in the trial he admits to doing lots of drugs since the age of 18, cannabis,cocaine, ecstasy, etc. So why would louise mentioning she wants to do cannabis rile him up so much?
He keeps mentioning "the night before" made him angry. I think the night before is the key to all this...My opinion is they all were drinking in the bedroom. Perhaps Louise & CJ passed out drunk and then after looking at *advertiser censored* on louise's phone gets him "in that kind of mood" (I feel sick even writing that) he made some kind of attempt on her? Or perhaps louise caught him looking at it? And I'm sorry but I still struggle that CJ could of been totally unaware of anything if they were all in bedroom together? Also, if she told SM what he could spend his money on that means she knew he bought alcohol and that alcohol was also given to louise. (They disagreed with her doing drugs but were quite happy to give her alcohol even though she was underage).
He openly admits to not liking Louise so why would he go on an hours walk with her? Promising to decorate her bedroom etc.
The level of anger to do what he did to her was extreme. I think like someone else mentioned that she probably did hit him with the stick but in some form of self defense trying to get away from him.
Like the prosecution has said several times, his memory seems to be rather selective; he can remember walking louise to woods,their full conversation and attacking her but can't remember what he did straight after? If he left her there moaning, why would you not go back and check on her after you'd calmed down?
I don't know about anyone else but seeing the bit of woods where she was found really got to me.
Poor girl laid there 2 weeks in a terrible, defiled state, it just looked such a cold lonely, dark place to end up. No way he's going to get off with manslaughter for this. It's too cruel what he did to her.
MOO