Hey there lovely listeners and welcome back to Crime Analyst and the Intelligence Cell.

Now I'm going to do the usual before we dive back in and give you a heads up that these

episodes may be triggering or upsetting and that's why listener discretion is advised.

You're going to hear about real victims, real cases, real perpetrators and their behavior

at real crime scenes. There are going to be some graphic details throughout this podcast

series. Unfortunately it comes with the territory. Murder is distressing. Victims being killed

and harmed is a truly terrible business. Now you're a call that I left off in episode

9 talking about the trial which began on the 5th of May 1981 just four months after

PS is arrest. Mr Justice Borum was a judge who presided over the trial in the number one

court at the Old Bailey in London. As I mentioned previously the prosecution teams lead

council with some Michael Havers QC, the attorney general and he was supported by Harry

Ognor QC. Defense council for PS were James Chadwin QC and Sydney Levine. The court heard

first from some Michael Havers QC who led with his opening speech on behalf of the prosecution.

Now I don't intend to go through chapter and verse of the opening speech or indeed

the trial but I will highlight significant aspects of the case and what stands out to

me from an analytical perspective. So firstly as I mentioned before, so Michael Havers

QC had just days to repair the case given his full U term from initially accepting the

plea of diminishing responsibility to now making the case of the exact opposite that

the PS carried out a series of calculated, premeditated and sadistic murders and attacks

on women. As soon as he stood to address the court so Michael Havers QC made it plain

that there were two narratives at play and the jury would ultimately have to decide which

one they believed. The first narrative and what the prosecution's case this time around

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