10:54Philip Dewey
'You cannot allow emotion to dictate your evaluation of the evidence'
The trial resumes.
Peter Rouch QC, for Williamson, begins his closing speech.
He says cases involving the death of a child are “emotive” but said the jury were the “sole judges” of the evidence and it’s up to them to accept or reject the evidence.
Mr Rouch said: “What you can’t do is blindly accept evidence and you can’t simply dismiss evidence without carrying out a property appraisal and serious consideration of it and you cannot allow emotion to dictate your evaluation of the evidence however difficult that may be.
“What you have to be is clinical in the way you approach your job. The only way justice can be done is to approach the evidence in a dispassionate and objective, cool and calculated way. You have to look at the evidence forensically…..
“You are judges in this case and everyone agrees judges, from umpires and referees upwards, have to approach their task in a fair, balanced, evenhanded and objective way……..
“It’s not an easy task because we are dealing with the killing of an innocent five-year-old little boy.
“The prosecution has to prove its case so the prosecution has to present it and starts with the prosecution opening their case to you and tell the jury what their case is all about.
“The problem is the prosecution can tell you what their case is about one aspect of the case or evidence and the prosecution can tell you on the evidence they rely in relation to the aspect. There is the danger your judgement is thereafter completely clouded and jaundiced.”
Logan Mwangi murder trial jury hears closing speeches
