John Makita
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219 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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For my mum, it has made her unwell.
It has affected her health quite considerably where she can't eat a lot of the time when we have different things that come up during the trial.
And so they had to be removed outside of that.
We were very fortunate that they were given a victim liaison officer from ACT Policing who could basically hold their hand and walk with them at home and tell them things that they needed to hear.
But there were some instances where there were things that were shown or talked about which were quite distressing for all of us in the family.
I was adamant to stay in the courtroom even when they were showing photos and videos.
The DPP or the Crown were quite respectful for the family and made sure that the screens were not able to be seen from the gallery easily.
So my wife would be there and say, oh, you can look up now or you can look down just so that you don't see certain things.
It did get to the stage towards the end where I felt as though I needed to see some stuff.
And I did look up and see some images of my grandmother laying in the hallway and some of the brutality that was shown to her and her body and the blood and things like that.
I think the thing that hurt us the most and was...
was the fact of seeing the emotion also on the first responders who had arrived in the scene.
There are a couple of instances where we had police officers and they were quite visibly shaken, even 25 years later, in how they felt when they had been on the scene.
And also hearing what they had said, hearing what they had seen and what they had found.
that was really hard for us to hear.
And I think foreclosure, we needed to hear it.
It'll be something that we'll never forget.
But when we did get the jury decision, there was, I can say, this huge amount of weight that was lifted off my shoulders walking out of the courtroom knowing that after so long that we had got...
these two convictions of manslaughter against these two offenders.
Yeah, it wasn't easy also.
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