Abandoned by Geesche Jacobsen

Author:Geesche Jacobsen [Jacobsen, Geesche]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: TRU002000, TRU000000
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

request to end the inquest. There was not

enough evidence yet for her to be

convinced that a jury might convict

anyone. ‘I do think it’s premature,’ she

explained.

About eight weeks later, on Monday,

September 11, Ryan had to return, and this

time things did not go quite so smoothly.

Ryan now admitted lying to police in his

interviews, and covering for Mark

because he did not want to implicate him.

This time, when Ryan again recounted

the conversation in the cabin, he said

Dianne had asked Mark if the drug was

dangerous and Mark had said, ‘No, it’s

just similar to ecstasy’—‘I’m not a

hundred per cent [certain] but I know it

was a question [like] “What is the stuff?”

You know, she was basically questioning

what it was and what the effects were.’

Minutes later, Ryan added, ‘When

[Mark] had said, “Would you like some?”

. . . she said, “I’ll try some.” ’

Ryan also suddenly remembered

hearing Mark ask Leo for Via-gra: ‘I’m

pretty sure after they had a conversation

he asked . . . He told her that he’d had an

ecstasy that night. Then he went to Leo and

said, “Can I have a Viagra?” Leo was . . .

I think he grunted, he may have grunted . . .

And then I believe they were on the bed

on the top righthand bunk.’

This new evidence just increased the

pressure on Ryan, who tried

unsuccessfully to reconcile these versions

but ended up contradicting himself more

and more. One of the lawyers even got

him to admit that, because he had not

actually seen what happened, it was

possible Dianne had not taken the drug

voluntarily.

After Ryan’s court appearance he and

Leo, like veterans, compared notes about

the experience. Who had gotten the bigger

media coverage, and the most mentions on

the front page of the papers? And what

about the lawyers—who had given them

the toughest questions? The Brimble

family’s lawyer was pedantic, a dweeb,

hopeless, but the lawyer for the police, he

was pretty harsh, very direct and abrupt.

Ryan reported back to his friends that

the lawyers had been trying to discredit

him and catch him out. They had been

twisting what he said, and he had got

pretty angry. He knew what he had heard

and what Mark had told him the next day;

but they kept going over the same ground

over and over again. In the end he hadn’t

even known what he was saying any more.

His lawyer had later told him the

attacks on him were counterproductive. If

they were going to prosecute Mark, they

would need him to appear as a credible

witness. How would it help the

prosecution if Mark’s defence lawyer

could point to all of Ryan’s different

versions to create doubt in a jury’s mind?

Mark was angry and dispirited when he

heard what Ryan had been saying. He told

a friend he felt he had been fucked over.

Ryan had denied knowing about the drugs

they had taken on board and had claimed

that Mark had asked him the next morning

not to talk about them. ‘That decision

definitely didn’t come from me,’ Mark

insisted.

He was also pissed off that Ryan had

called him a ‘bit of a deviant’ in court.

Ryan had claimed Mark had hosted spa

parties with strippers. Mark never even

owned a spa. Sure he had been to spa

parties, and there had been naked

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