Elizabeth Byrne
speaker
491 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Elizabeth Byrne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And quite often with juries,
who are faced with a circumstance like this and it's drummed into them, you have to find it beyond a reasonable doubt that they end up saying, we can't reach a verdict on that particular question.
I think all the other charges about the burglary and the assaults, that all stood up and I think they had already made up their mind on those charges before they got to this final bit.
The thing that Irma's grandson, John Makita, said outside the court was, someone's been held to account after all these years.
And the family was very relieved about that.
Well...
probably unlike you, I remember 1999.
And I had already been covering courts for quite a while at that time.
And we thought DNA evidence was, you know, quite advanced.
But what the scientists knew was that techniques were advancing all the time.
It was getting better and better.
I have seen a few trials collapse on the basis of DNA evidence that didn't stand up.
But as time went on, the sort of rates of how you could tell if it was one person against another increased.
really improved the techniques for even uncovering that there was DNA there improved.
And they would have known that that was the trajectory of this science.
And so the foresight was, you know, probably quite a reasonable thing to expect of them.
But, you know, it is pretty incredible that they did go –
Exactly to the right place.
And that's because Gregor had remembered seeing somebody take a swig out of something from the fridge and they knew to test anything you could drink from.
Well, yes, she did.
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