Elizabeth Byrne

Now, there were a number of points where she called for the jury to be dismissed.

One of these was to do with some material evidence

that had been heard by the jury from UCO Danny, and that was dismissed.

Then there was another about contamination, where you remember the tape in the house was said to have been contaminated.

And then late in the trial, the prosecution revealed that that possibly wasn't the case, that the error with that

happened in a different process, and some evidence was presented about that.

But she said that error was a problem for her client, and Mr Jackson backed this up as well, that they couldn't ask questions or challenge what had been said, that they should have known this earlier.

Well, it wasn't actually picked up until that time.

That's what the prosecution said.

So they tried again to have the jury dismissed.

That was dismissed.

And then there was a mistrial application.

And that was about the lack of disclosures about the white van and, of course, the tape that was contaminated in the white van.

And we heard all about that in an earlier episode about how it was actually Irma's dried blood from a van.

from a laboratory that had not been cleaned.

So Sky Jerome's summation in that particular application was that this has been a trial by ambush because she said they weren't getting the information that they needed.

And of course, this was all tactical.

See, the thing was the DNA evidence in the fridge on the two containers was quite powerful.

So if Sky Jerome could have the jury dismissed or a mistrial declared based on some of these other issues, then she would have achieved her aim.

So she couldn't go directly to the strong bit of evidence, but she could use weaker bits of evidence to undo the trial.