Watson Case Begins To Turn Inside Out
The last big advantage for the Crown has begun to turn inside out as the case becomes smaller and easier to understand.
Now there can be greater emphasis on how the Courts must look at it - ending a long-term advantage for the Crown where each discrepancy in its case was answered individually. That is absent the long-term direction from the Privy Council in both the Bain and Lundy cases where such discrepancies or advantages were said to be considered both individually and collectively.
Scott's recent success with his RPOM application to the Governor-General was referred on a single point - the hair evidence. What isn't fully appreciated is that for years the hair evidence is said to have held the case together, now it is tottering on the edge of oblivion and other less compelling evidence is being advanced. All is well and good, but also it is time for evidence favourable to Scott to be advanced. 2 such types of evidence is the "secret witness" evidence from 2 prisoners who the reviewer of the RPOM said was neutral. What he should have noted to Scott's benefit was that other secret witnesses' evidence was also suspect for that reason.
Essentially the new argument is that the case has a pattern of deceit strengthened by each individual aspect being judged in isolation and not as a combination. If the prison stoolies evidence is suspect then why not the secret witness who in some cases took between 4 and 6 statements to tell the "truth?" We add to that the Crown's failure of its witnesses to the Court to come forward with the truth about the changes in hair evidence. They instead stood back and ignored that duty. These things weigh together along with fresh evidence of who "Mr. Prozac" was and from which boat, also evidence that the mystery man at the bar was identified by a large number of people as not being Scott, yet those witnesses were called but not asked that question.
Then there is the powerful evidence of the couple being alive after it is said they were dead by some extraordinarily strong witnesses also ignored by the Crown. And so it goes on with the RPOM reviewer rejecting that there was no evidence supporting the couple having scratched the hatch cover on Scott's boat. The Crown case is awash in a sea of deliberate bs, and the good folks of NZ are coming after them with the truth in continuity. A positively true narrative that puts dynamite under a case built on lies.
