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However, I will say that John did use his time in the witness box to push back and question the validity of the police's investigation, as well as a lot of the inconsistencies in the entire case.

Regarding his doggedness to see justice served for his daughter, John told reporter Andrew Hogg that his entire family was unified when it came to holding Kenyan investigators accountable.

He said, quote,

They are not at home saying, crazy dad is off halfway around the world again.

They are as determined as I am to catch the bastard that did this.

From my point of view, it's probably 70% revenge and 30% a combination of factors, including my fear that if the murderer has done it once, he could do it again.

It's not an obsession.

It's more cold and calculating than that.

It comes down to the fact that I don't like being buggered about."

End quote.

Another noteworthy witness who testified was Dr. Jason Cavitti, the chief pathologist who changed Julie's post-mortem report a few days after it was initially labeled a homicide.

When he was called to testify about his actions, he stated he'd done what he'd done because he felt that his underling, Dr. Shaker, had used words and phrases in the initial autopsy report, which was written in English, that were not grammatically correct.

Cavitti said that Dr. Shaker had made those mistakes because he didn't have a clear understanding of the English language because he happened to be Egyptian.

Essentially, Kaviti's story was that he and Dr. Shaker together had altered the report to simply correct Dr. Shaker's misuse of grammar.

The alterations including changing the descriptions of Julie's injuries from stating things like cleanly cut to cracked or torn and changed the word sharp to blunt.

According to reporting by Aiden Hartley for The Times, the inquest also revealed that at one point, the clerk at Sand River Camp had been considered a suspect because he'd admitted after a few rounds of questioning to forging Julie's signature in the camp's register book about 30 minutes after she left the area.

This clerk had several inconsistent statements throughout his testimony, but he vehemently denied killing Julie or participating with anyone else to cover up the crime.

Another article by the Times reported that the Kenyan police constable, Jared Karari, who was stationed at Sand River Camp the day Julie was last seen, was also called to testify.

He told the court that he'd seen Julie take down her and Glen Burns' two tents from about 100 yards away while he was sitting in his office.

Shortly after that, he said she left the area around 2.30 p.m.