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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.

John Ward's attorney, though, didn't believe him and pressed him hard on the witness stand.

And I think the reason for that was because Gerald's testimony at the inquest sort of contradicted his prior statement to investigators that he'd personally helped Julie take down her tents.

And because of this, John Ward's lawyer basically called him a liar.

He was definitely convinced that Gerald and the clerk at the camp knew much more than they were saying.

Several odd things about the evidence found where the Jeep was abandoned and where Julie's remains were discovered were also explored during the inquest.

For example, John Ward's lawyer thought it was odd that Julie had apparently been wearing flip-flops when she died.

Those shoes were recovered near her burned remains, and it was revealed in court that a pair of her gym shoes had been left behind in her abandoned Jeep.

which didn't make sense to Ward's attorney because if she had really left her vehicle in search of help, then why didn't she wear more appropriate footwear to traverse the landscape?

The lawyer also noted that where the Jeep was found, in a gully, was about 15 feet away from a dry, easily traversable patch of ground.

So it didn't make sense to him why Julie had gotten bogged down in the first place.

In his opinion, he felt all the evidence pointed to her Jeep having been purposely planted at the spot to make it appear as if she'd run off the road or gotten stuck.

John raised similar issues during his testimony.

He said that he'd spoken with a Swiss film crew who'd been staying on a hillside a few hundred meters away from where Julie's Jeep was found.