You're listening to the Men's Ray podcast and this is the story of the Beast of Barkinshaw. Oh, Welcome back listeners. This is part 3 of the Beast of Birkenshell series.

If you haven't listened to the first two episodes, I'd recommend you go back and listen to them first and join us back here when you're done.

When last we spoke, Manuel had fired his barristers midway through his trial for the eight murders in Birkenshaw.

Manual decided that he would defend himself and take the stand to tell his side of the story.

Reporters in the courtroom rushed as quietly as they could out of the courtroom to call in their news to their offices as the lawyers gathered their things to leave.

Manual's agents, Ferns and Dacrity, were positioned closer to him ostensibly to assist with his defense, but it soon became clear that he didn't want their help.

The prosecution begins to question Goodall about the 14th of January and the arrest of Samuel Manuel.

He stated as before that Samuel had claimed to own the camera and gloves.

He also addressed Manuel's statement that he had received cash from Dandy McKay for showing him around the area he was going to rob.

Goodall's testimony agrees with McNeil's.

Manuel had been cautioned, but he confessed and brought them out to where Isabel Cook's body had been left.

Manual then got up to question the detective. He implied in his questioning that the police had already known the whereabouts of Isabel Cook's body when they took Mayol out to the brickyard.

He had good all compare the signatures on the through the same testimony. They all deny each time that anything untoward had happened

while he was in custody. None of them waver. The next day, Manuel asks for what and

McNeil to be recalled to the witness stand, because he was not happy

with how they had been cross-examined by his previous defense counsel.

He needed to explain some missing guns from the crime scenes.

He was trying to lay the groundwork that he had come upon the crime scenes after the murder and

remove the weapons somehow.

But as the judge pointed out, that would involve someone failing to inform the police that such a thing had occurred.

However, the judge allows it.

What took the stand to be questioned by the man he believed had killed his family.

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