Selections from the address of Mr. Dyers' defence lawyer
at Sutherland Court on 28th October 2005
'He participated yesterday...in a voluntary record of interview,
over three hours, where he answered all questions and vigorously denied
each and every allegation, which is the subject of these charges and
also explained circumstances, very telling circumstances, surrounding
the two families in question, which cast a very serious cloud of doubt
over the evidence of these two complainants and make them deeply
unreliable witnesses...'
'The little that we've seen of the evidence so far...suggests to the
defence that the case is very weak. It is uncorroborated evidence, of
an extremely implausible kind...'
'But it seems your Honour, if I can say so with the greatest
respect, that we are in Salem again in 1692 because the more bizarre
and implausible the allegations, it seems, the more some people want to
believe them, and the police and the media perhaps in particular, but
they defy human reason and human experience.'
'...it's already becoming apparent that there are serious
deficiencies in this investigation and any reasonable mind would
already have very serious doubts about the plausibility of these
allegations...The case is already looking extremely weak...It doesn't
seem to deter the police, perhaps in their political desire to score
points...'
published 4/7/2009
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