Yachtsinking Ex-wife Jailed

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Prosecutor Mark Gadsden said: "A volatile mixture of propane gas and air had been created and all it would have needed was for someone to turn on an electric light or torch, or respond to a mobile phone or radio, for it to have exploded."


And he knows this ???
 

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Just annoys me when so called Prosecutors make sweeping statements like this to prove a case, when he knows not what he's talking about.

Maybe you're right. Would you care to fill your boat with propane and I'll give you a call? Then I'll know too.
 

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Just annoys me when so called Prosecutors make sweeping statements like this to prove a case, when he knows not what he's talking about.

Yeah, imagine the accusations of 'volt loss' and 'amp danger' if she had nicked one of the batteries...
 
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Prosecutor Mark Gadsden said: "A volatile mixture of propane gas and air had been created and all it would have needed was for someone to turn on an electric light or torch, or respond to a mobile phone or radio, for it to have exploded."

I love this quote
Oliver Blunt QC, for Fleming, told the judge: "A lot of water has gone under the bridge since that time."
 

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Prosecutor Mark Gadsden said: "A volatile mixture of propane gas and air had been created and all it would have needed was for someone to turn on an electric light or torch, or respond to a mobile phone or radio, for it to have exploded."


And he knows this ???

Probably would have got away with the mobile call but sparking up a ciggarette could have been fairly devastating for anyone within a few hundred meters.
 

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Probably would have got away with the mobile call but sparking up a ciggarette could have been fairly devastating for anyone within a few hundred meters.

Naked light ? then of course. But a Torch ? a Light Switch (12V ?) mobile phone ? radio ?

No way.

He speaks as if with knowledge and an authority, which he clearly is not & does not have.
Not concerned that the bint got sent down, just that the size of her sentence was probably
influenced by his incorrect comments.
 
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Naked light ? then of course. But a Torch ? a Light Switch (12V ?) mobile phone ? radio ?

No way.

He speaks as if with knowledge and an authority, which he clearly is not & does not have.
Not concerned that the bint got sent down, just that the size of her sentence was probably
influenced by his incorrect comments.


A 12volt switch could very easily ignite butane.

The prosecutor was doing exactly what he is supposed to do...make a case for the prosecution. It's the job of the defence team to argue against it. If the claims of the prosecutor were wrong (and I don't think they were) then the defence team should have taken issue with them. They either failed to do so or, by remaining silent, accepted the comments.
 
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