Didn`t make notes today but will try and remember key points.
P: Why didn`t the police act on your complaint? (When SK dragged Sophie in to the police station..oh..and offered her a follow up appointment to discuss further and bring K`s medical evidence from America)
SK: Maybe because of my race - I`m French - not English - and my colour
Unlike OM, every chance she gets, she lobs in a slur about whoever is being discussed. Every chance she gets. And it is noticed and commented on by P with a raised eyebrow and pointed remark.
Sophie, (quiet, painfully shy and probably socially inept), was sleeping around with half of the "village" (as she calls it), and she was very embarrassed to be seen walking around with her as she is well known in the area, very modest...so modest in fact that she walks with the eyes to the ground!
Sophie had written to her - why do you call me a





...a




...a *****? Sophie had written several facebook messages to her mother saying that she wanted to come home, that she had only intended to stay for one year and it was now one year and five months, saying she had been accused of stealing jewellery for SK. K. even tried to test for Sophie`s fingerprints on a box (jewellery box, I think).
Many times this morning, SK painted a terrible picture of this shy girl. Regarding her insistence that Sophie had slept with Michael (fish and chip man), SK continually referred to Sophie liking "old" men. "Old" as being used deliberately in a vindictive, slurring way - even if it * was * true that Sophie liked * older * men (untrue anyway), SK deliberately used the word * old * men.
SK said that she had told Sophie`s mother all this. (I don`t understand why Sophie`s mother did not give evidence).
SK`s medication must have needed topping up :thinking: because she was much less in control today. She interrupted, challenged P, raised her voice, argued, talked on and on way past answering the actual question she was being asked,asked on numerous occasions, "What`s that got to do with it?" and when caught on a particularly bad piece of evidence, stated "That doesn`t make me a murderer". An amusing moment was when she accused some members of the jury of laughing at yet another of her fantastical beliefs.
Part of one of the last "interviews" was played. Loud and awful slapping was heard. SK contests that it was SK slapping her own face, ("It`s normal to do that in France. My grandmother used to do that".
When questioned about K`s evidence against his own mother, (witnessed SK kicking Sophie and offering that K should assault Sophie as well, she said, "He`s just a child" (i.e. he didn`t know what he was saying).
When asked why she didn`t take the tapes to the police as she now had all the evidence, she replied that she needed to get the house address and the phone first because she "needed to do the police`s job", as they wouldn`t do anything themselves about it.
More venom directed at OM. He was not interested in them "But he took them/collected them from school. He took them out to places" remarked P. SK, shouting, "Well he had to do something. He was living off me. I did the shopping. I did the cooking. I did the washing". OM was always out, never there. OM was a dead stone etc. "But OM took Kelsey to Disneyland", said P. (presumably there is evidence of this). SK "No he didn`t. I wouldn`t let him. Not without me".
SK said that Sophie was free to leave any time but that she didn`t want to go as she had a great time there. Hardly any work to do, all her washing done, free food cooked for her, free lodgings, given money to go out etc P remarked drily, "So, she had a lovely time, did she".
SK was in a different mode today - defiant, argumentative, loud, angry. And that`s * with * medication!
Oh - and she wasn`t happy with the newspaper reporting yesterday :notgood: