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stood in the trial’s witness box; as I remember

him taking in a breath before he spoke as if

speaking from a script. This annoyed me sitting

in the Van going back to the Old Bailey; having

flashback’s of some of Brandy’s lonely words: "I

on at least one occasion heard him shouting: "Let

me spank you harder!" Can you imagine?" I

arrived to the court and walked back to my seat,

and all in attendance still seemed just as

imprisoned as me; no one really wanted to really

be there - I noticed the lady who wore the red

blazer the day before, whom had on a yellow

blazer that day, on her face I saw visible bags

underneath her eyes, plus she kept tapping the

jury rail and looking at the clock on the wall;

from this, I assumed she would have preferred to

be elsewhere.

The ladies yellow blazer offended me ever

so slightly, similarly to the jovial black officer that

escorted me the day’s previous; as like him it was

too cheery for such an affair. I looked at the man

beside and noticed that the turban was white that

day and I thought that I preferred the red; white

seemed to illicit a purity I felt was not appropriate

for an objective juror; as if to declare that he that

wore it had no vice’s and was sat a loft in pristine

white looking down at us. I heard a lot of

chattering before the trial began that day. I

looked at Connor and he seemed a little jaded; as

his white hair seemed messy and hair uncombed,

but I did see him laugh and joke with his

journalist friend in the press area, before

returning to his seat next to mine with a look as if

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