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24 MAY, 2002

‘Will the next witness take the stand please?’

A thin wo Hair tied back, blonde with streaks Strong black eyeliner

Clerk to the court: ‘Will you please state your naaret Keyes’

Mr Anthony Elrod: ‘You are the wife of the defendant, are you not?’

‘Yes’

Eyes on anyone, anything, but not once on him

‘Will you please tell the court where you were on the night of 17 July 2001 between the hours of ht and 6 am?’

‘At home in bed’

‘Do you knohere the defendant was at the same time?’

‘I’ve said to the police It’s in my statement He was at hoht of 17 July was that he was at home, in bed, with you? Do you also confirhts of 30 July and 4 August 2001 between ht and 6 am?’

‘Yes’

‘Do you and your husband share a bed?’

‘Of course we do’

‘Always?’

‘What do you mean, always?’

‘Sometimes married couples have a spare room and one of the home very late? It’s not uncommon’

‘I wouldn’t know’

‘Are you a sound sleeper, Mrs Keyes? Or do you wake in the night sometimes?’

‘No I work hard I’m shattered I never wake up’

‘What work do you do?’

‘I work in a dry cleaner’s’

‘I suppose the fu machines are likely to make you sleepy, aren’t they?’

Mr Jerely to the implication behind this question which is coree Mr Elrod, please stick to facts not speculation about fuood sleeper as well?’

‘Yes Never stirs’

‘How can you be sure? If you sleep so soundly yourself, as you have just told us, how do you know that he’s doing the saot up and ht If he wanted tea he’d wake et it’

‘And would you?’

‘Of course I would’

‘Isn’t that a bit unusual these days? For a wife to get up in the ht and h she has just been sound asleep? Wouldn’t et their own tea?’

‘He’s not most men’

‘Can you explain what you mean by that?’

‘Your Honour, I object –’

‘Wait a mo has a relevant point because it sounds dangerously like vague speculation about the nature of the population at large’

‘I’ to the point now, Your Honour’

‘Then please do so’

‘Mrs Keyes, have you ever refused to make tea when your husband deht?’

‘No’

‘Has he deood as I do’

‘Does your husband snore?’

‘Yes, like bloody roadworks’

‘How do you know?’

‘I can hear hiot out of bed in the ht and went to the bathroom?’

‘I don’t know No, I probably wouldn’t unless he put the light on’

‘And would he do that? Put the light on?’

‘Shouldn’t think so’

‘So he could get out of bed, leave your bedrooain – and you would never know it?’

‘I probably wouldn’t, no’

‘You probably wouldn’t know that he had been up? Have you ever woken because he’d gone in and out of the room?’