Marian Leonard
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
The first trial in January fell apart in 94.
And then...
It fell apart for a very strange reason.
He tried to set himself on fire, didn't he?
Yes, he used firelight or something like that to... Well, some of the guards had to singe himself, but it got him off the hook.
It was when his confession was about to be read the following day.
Right.
There was so much evidence.
There were so many times that his barrister queried and there would be asides, the jury would be sent out and there'd be legal argument over everything.
Everything was legal argument.
But the guards had really dotted the I's and crossed the T's and
It must have been exhausting for you guys to sit there.
It was nerve wracking.
Exhausting.
It was everything, you know.
Well, they had an overnight and then they'd come back on a query.
And then the following day, I suppose it was six hours, you know, on the 15th of June.
But they'd had an overnight from when they queried.
I think the query was...