Elizabeth Byrne

But they tried not to traverse the same grounds because then you could run the risk of driving the jury and everyone else mad.

Well, I think it had too many grey areas.

That theory sort of was to serve the purposes of their client, to put someone else in the house.

Now, who that was, they didn't really say.

They had suggested there'd been a group of people, a group of other people, but there was no sign, no DNA sign or fingerprints or anything of any of those people in the house.

They'd all been investigated, in fact, by police early on and rejected.

And then, as Craig Marriott, the detective who investigated this, said in the court, when it was suggested to him he should have investigated this further, he said that neither Mr Vakoni or Mr Fabrizi had said anything about this third person.

So it kind of... It was there to provide...

a seed of doubt for the jury, but it had too many grey areas and I think they just didn't buy it as even a remote possibility.

Well, I was.

Fabrizio was interesting because he was so remorseful and he kept apologising and looked very defeated because, of course, by then he would have realised he'd been duped by an undercover police officer.

Vucconi, on the other hand, seemed very relaxed.

by comparison uh and and he also it was like he had his answers ready when they said about the the balaclava he said oh well he might have stolen that from me when i was welding his truck and uh then he said he's got a habit of taking something that's the kind of person he is

And then he was asked about why Fabrizzi might have dobbed him in.

And he said, oh, well, he might be jealous of me because I've got a family.

Like he, the animosity Viconi felt towards Fabrizzi was, you know, quite different, quite stark.

The other thing that jumps out at me is that Viconi would have known they were coming for him.

Because his friend, who also knew Fabrizzi, had sent him a clip of the news showing the arrest of Fabrizzi weeks before Vecconi himself was arrested.

So he knew they were coming eventually.

And yet he sat there.