I couldn't agree more.
What is telling to me is that of all the friendship group that knew Rob and Sabrina and I'm not just referring to their 'intimate' friends, but rather colleagues, neighbours and wider circle have all 'sided' (for want of a. better word) with Rob and Rob's family. On the live feed I watched on youtube - there were also live comments and several of the contributors were from the immediate locality. They said that locally, the overwhelming balance of opinion was that she was not only capable of doing what she was accused of, but in their opinion guilty of it.
Her family talk about the fact that the jury didn't know 'the real Sabrina' - the wonderfully sweet natured, genuine, naive, innocent loving mom, who could never, ever have done this. If they knew her, they would realise that.
However, she elected to take the stand in her own defence, and had hours of very gentle and supportive questioning from her own lawyer, which did absolutely nothing to help herself or her case. Far from coming across as genuine, she came across as coquettish and fake. The little girl lost act on a 37 year old woman who had clearly been around the block several times in terms of her sexual behaviour as illustrated by all the evidence (and whose appearance - and I have to careful what I say here as no-one should be judged on how they look - but frankly she is not an attractive woman facially so the cutesy smiles, covert glances, sighs and shrugs to the jury fell flat) and who had been heard, lying repeatedly on camera, in interviews and so on, her attempt to endear herself to the jury failed spectacularly. However, it may be that belief in her own powers of seduction and persuasion was what made her choose to take the stand and it was that, coupled with the testimony of her older sister, her children (unforgivable to involve them in my view) and an ex (possibly current) boyfriend - which was all the defence case had. There was nothing else offered up, apart from a tangential and emotional closing from Mr Terry.
So I am aghast that Mr Terry, Sabrina herself and her 'friend' and family are apparently shocked at the outcome. Did they really think she was going to walk after that painstakingly compiled prosecution case delivered by a hugely competent and eloquent prosecutor in Eric Smith, and the paucity of the defence case that went up against it.
Apparently they plan to appeal, but on what grounds I'm not sure.
