Clare Solon

Paul was too drunk to drive it properly and kept stepping away from the wheel.

Everybody was sort of panicking and trying to steady the boat.

And then it crashed into a bridge.

Oh, it's so sad.

Shocking.

It tossed out a guy called Anthony and Mallory.

whose friends Morgan, Miley and Mallory, they were three best friends that were going out with three southern lads, one of them being Paul.

They all get up onto the bank of the river and they look back in and they realise Mallory Beach is gone.

It's heartbreaking to see them look back now years later and say, you know, none of them follow their instincts.

And, you know, when you're in your teenage years, you just follow the herd.

You don't follow your instincts.

And what was quite scary, actually, was to see how quickly the Murdaws got involved.

So anytime Paul got in trouble, it wasn't the police he called.

It was his grandfather, Mr. Randolph.

So Miley, his girlfriend, talked about a situation where he drove them off the road.

one night drunk.

He called his grandfather.

His mother, his father and his grandfather showed up, didn't even ask if everybody was OK, went straight to the van, took out the guns, all of his guns, which were in the back of his car, took out all of the beer cans that had been strewn around the place and then came back to Miley and said, why did you call the police?

for fear of their son's retribution.

So it was the same situation after the boat, into the hospital and all of the young people talk about Alex and his father showing up and intimidating witnesses, speaking in hushed tones to police officers and then suddenly the crime scene starts to be tampered with.