Craig McLaughlin

He didn't answer the phone.

Now, I know that sort of thing happens in life.

But on that day, I went, mm-mm, something's not right here.

Follow-up chats that we would do a group call, he wasn't on.

This is before it was announced.

And I'm saying to Vanessa, I smell a rat.

I've gone through so much.

I've learned so much about how the law operates, what a game it is, not so much criminal matters because it's all about evidence and eyewitness accounts and so on.

But in general terms...

So my mind is a little more conspiratorial than it was once upon a time.

When I read his statement, which was just appalling in relation to Cluedo and me stepping down.

But to answer your question, I trusted him when we spoke at length about Cluedo over the phone, but when he didn't show up to meetings and he wasn't there, so my conspiratorial mind went, he planned all this to appease those people who resist him.

Oh, Michael, she was so excited.

Not just mum.

The family, the Macs and the Scammels, everyone was so pumped, so excited.

And as I mentioned, the one thing Mum said from the kitchen, I remembered so clearly.

She turned and she said, I hope he doesn't throw you under the bus again.

And I said, Mum, so much time has passed.

Don't even worry about that.

Oh, yeah, she was pretty pumped, you know, already thinking about the dress she was going to wear to the theatre.