Elizabeth Byrne

And then things cranked up in the second week with applications for a permanent stay on the charges from both men and some other applications to delay if the first thing didn't happen.

Well, one of the main things was that there had been a coronial into this event.

The coroner had produced a report.

There had been a file and a record of what everybody had said in that inquiry.

But that file had gone.

It's been lost in time.

And Sky Jerome suggested that Mr Fabrizi...

could not get a fair trial without the evidence from the coronial.

In the end, though, even though this was argued by both parties that there should be a permanent stay and then later

maybe a temporary stay.

The judge rejected it all.

And he said that a fair trial does not require a perfect record of evidence.

And so the trial proceeded.

Yes, the investigation into Mr Fabrizi began perhaps a bit earlier than the jury really knew about.

And this is because this all came out during the pre-trial applications.

Most of these were lodged by Mr Fabrizi's solicitor, Tom Taylor, and there was one subpoena that he had filed

lodged, which wanted to know about a trip to Hungary where Steve Fabrizio had spent some time in Hungary before the Mr. Big operation began.

And

Tom Taylor wanted to know what happened in Hungary because he was accompanied there, well, tailed there perhaps is a better way to describe it, by a police officer.

Now, we don't know what happened in Hungary.