Niall

whether you're there to be cross-examined on it or not.

However, the court will also say, you know, well, there's no jury in this case, but if there was a jury, a jury be told, well, you can't give the same weight to that statement if the person isn't willing to come to court to be cross-examined.

So at that point, the trial begins for a couple of days in December.

One, there's an opening day.

It sits on a Saturday to continue evidence, and in which case...

Dramatically, they changed their plea.

On the Monday?

Is it the Monday?

I mean, they have really, really strong words.

So they start to sum up and they go through each of the five people individually, I suppose.

Yes and I mean the branding on the face as I said was to maximise the visibility of his humiliation and you know they speak about the lack of humanity in what that man suffered.

Yes, but they make it clear they're starting from 10 years.

So that's the maximum.

Okay.

So for each of the four men who've pled guilty to assault, 10 years is the maximum.

And then they work back.

And with Jason Hennessy, they work back ultimately to eight and a half years.

Yeah.

That would be the Hulk towing firm that people will have seen when Jason Hensie Senior was buried.

He also worked in Halfords at one point which I hadn't known.