Read the remainder of part 2 of CM's court transcript late last night. Really hard work. In a catalogue of lies, the nadir of CM's testimony had to be her performance during the tattoo parlour evidence; that was actually cringeworthy and no doubt very damaging indeed to the defence. It seemed that Alan Turnbull was getting really frustrated with CM's obvious lies, omissions and her evasiveness during that part of her testimony. He did a great job of exposing her lies, not least by asking the same questions on crucial matters many times over, methodically, slowly, systematically and deliberately, ensuring the jury understood what was going on. It was vital/critical that he did this.
The "Tarzy Swing/ Shin Abrasions" evidence was interesting. I agree with AT that it would be something you'd expect Luke to tell the police about when they interviewed him, especially as he and Corinne had mentioned it in an earlier interview with them. (I suspect LM & CM were lying about laughing about how injury prone LM was regardless of wether he was or not; it was inserted by CM as it was believable, but it was likely a lie and another facet of her cunning and deceitful nature.) However, I'm not so sure Luke would've been able to make an injury possibly sustained 8 or 9 hours earlier look like an injury sustained 48 hours earlier (unless, of course, he got lucky; Jodi may only have made minimal contact with his shins due to him being much stronger than her and her being caught off guard and already incapacitated by a sudden forceful unexpected attack, and plus LM was protected by thick jeans and Jodi was onlg wearing light canvas trainers).
