Leanne Flynn

This witness said the man then appeared to move toward another child and he described seeing two men grappling with him.

That's when he got involved.

He said he went over, took the lock off his bike, hit the man in the head with it.

His attention then turned to the injured child whom he described as appearing potentially lifeless was how he put it.

He too was cross-examined by the defence barrister who challenged his memory of Riyadh Bhushakar walking past the line, as he said, before suddenly turned around.

That was his evidence in chief.

The defence said the CCTV footage that the jury has already been shown simply didn't support that claim.

There was a point where that footage was going to be shown for the witness, but he repeatedly said he didn't want to see it.

So the barrister told him that it showed his client standing at a bus stop for one minute and 39 seconds before taking three or four strides towards the children.

If that's what it showed, then the witness accepted his memory of that aspect of events may have been inaccurate, but he maintains that what caught his attention was a sudden turning movement before the violence began.

Yeah, this was Michael Healy and Eileen Flynn O'Sullivan.

Both said they initially thought a man and woman were arguing after hearing screams from across the road, but they quickly realised something far more serious was happening.

Mr Healy, in his evidence, told the court he saw a woman trying to stop a man from reaching a line of children before she was pushed aside.

He said the man appeared intent on reaching those children whom he described as standing in a line wearing backpacks.

And according to him,

The man had a large knife in his right hand while using his left hand to grab and turn children around, appearing, in his opinion, to try to get past their bags and reach the front of their bodies.

He said children were screaming, some were struggling to get away, and it appeared to him that two or three children had been injured at that point.

His partner, Eileen Flynn O'Sullivan, took the stand after Mr Healey.

She gave a similar account describing how she saw the man throw that woman aside before turning his attention to the children.

And she described him as hell bent on reaching as many children as possible.