Elizabeth Byrne

Well, he was about to appear as a witness because the prosecution eventually relented and called him.

But he was ready standing by and then Sky Jerome said she didn't need him anymore.

I think we were.

One of the most touching moments came quite early in the trial when one of the policemen who'd been called to the 1998 burglary read her statement that was given to police at the time.

So we heard in Irma's own words what she said had happened to her that night.

And it

it brought it home to you, this is a person who's died in a violent way.

And it is a person who had a life, who had children and grandchildren and had a life to live still.

And that's very sad.

And so while there was a lot of legal argument going on,

She was threaded through the whole trial and you did have a sense of her presence through that.

Well, it is the last stockie.

In fact, it was supposed to run last year, but there were some other delays and it didn't start until this year.

So I've delayed my retirement till now to cover this.

Hopefully I'll be back to talk about sentencing at some point, but I'm not covering courts anymore and I'll be gone in a few weeks.

Oh, I think because I knew the people and I'd known them for a very long time.

I didn't just know Irma's family, though.

I knew the police investigating it, particularly the ones who did the review in 2012, who I'd written stories about on other cases that they had solved, other difficult cases they had solved.

They didn't succeed that time and it wasn't until Craig Marriott came along that

that they did succeed, but that was helped by technology developing with DNA analysis.