Judge Conlon

It is not the job of the detectives to deliver a half-done brief to the DPP.

It is their job to conduct all investigative inquiries, including those that may diminish a complainant's version if there are ambiguities or inconsistencies in the version.

Let's go to court.

You spoke to C2 again around September or October 2017?

Yes.

She said that her agent had contacted the production, but that she hadn't been successful.

Is that correct?

That's right.

And did she mention Mr McLaughlin in that conversation to you?

Yes.

What did she say?

She said that she believed or questioned and asked me for my opinion as to whether Craig would have contributed to her not being accepted into this new production.

And what did you say?

I said I didn't believe that that was his role or that he had the power to influence casting.

And what was her demeanour like?

Oh, increasingly aggressive.

She was talking about not getting into the production and why she believed she didn't get into the production and then also saying that this was going to be like the final push to make her decide to do something about how she felt about Craig back in 2014.

Okay, so up until that point, the only conversation you'd ever had about a possible complaint was C2 telling you some years earlier that she didn't think it was serious enough.

Is that right?

Correct.