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tions on the 18th and to depart on the 19th. The
Crown will want you to believe that these bags were
packed in anticipation. He had these bags packed
because he was going to do his dirty deed and then to
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escape. The accused said 'No'. I went back to my home
after the thing it was only when I was going back and
my sister called me "Robert, what's that?", he saw blood
on his finger, that that brought him back to himself and
he was able then to appreciate what had happened. He
realised he was in trouble, so the only thing he could
think of was to try and get away that very day the 19th.
What the Defence is telling you is why should a
man who planned to commit a crime of this kind, after he
had committed it, find himself back across the road up to
his home. Why not try and escape the other way. There
is the sea on the other side. The Crown will tell you,
well, he can't very well escape in those clothes.
He may
as well go home and change them. So you have the two
sides to the story. Then the Defence says, yes, even if
he has to go home and change them, why leave them by
the pit?
But, the pit is locked, he can't get inside
to throw them in the pit, so he leaves them behind the
pit. If the pit had been open Members of the Jury I don't
believe he would put them outside, but that is a matter
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for you.
There were people who saw him when he was run-
ning up to his home, Betty Adams saw him. Betty Adams
is the girl who lives with Allan Brown, his stepdaughter,
and Lyndon Smith, she doesn't say it was the accused,
she said it was a fair-skin person. But Members of the
Jury, there is no problem about this because the accused
himself tells you he went up there.
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