Reuben Williams

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah.

So at that point in time, COVID hit, they lost a lot, Cricket Australia lost a lot more money than they expected.

80% of the organization got, got stood down on JobKeeper for 10 weeks.

And then at the end of those 10 weeks, I think about 41 roles were made redundant and, and, and mine was one of them.

Yeah.

So, um, we go through the, the magistrate's court and, and, um, and, and even, even just on, on that, like, um, that was a whole thing in and of itself because like leading up to the magistrate's, um, court trial, like, uh, when you're going into a court trial like this and you've never done it before, you're like, what the hell am I in for?

And I was, I was really worried about like,

a few key things like, um, you know, what would it be like seeing my perpetrator for the first time?

What would it be like being in a courtroom for the first time?

What would like be like, um, being cross-examined for the first time.

So for the months leading up to, I was basically trying to prepare myself for this, for this battle.

And so like, like I'd, I'd go for, and I had all this pent up rage and anger too.

So I'd go for a run at night.

I'd imagine him coming the other direction and I'd just hang my arm out and clothesline him.

And, uh, yeah, just wrap my arm around his face.

And I thought, you know, if it's cold, wet and windy night, even better.

If I can run through this, I can run through you like more pain, give it to me.

Like I'm basically preparing myself to, to go into war here.

And, um, and the night before the magistrates court where I was prepared to, where I had to go in and give my evidence, I wrote a letter to myself and I'm not going to read it out because it is quite, uh, it's a bad language in there that my mother wouldn't appreciate, but it was quite an aggressive letter.