The harrowing and sometimes bizarre evidence was heard during the trial by Rigby's family, some of whom left the court as details of the death of the soldier who had survived Afghanistan, only to die on a London street, were heard by the Old Bailey.
Bizarre evidence was presented in the trial, including a video of trotting donkeys and horses, a recording of the Gotye song "Somebody That I Used to Know," and bits of footage taken from the BBC and Voice of America.
The prohibition is all the more bizarre because evidence gathered by other much more intrusive covert interception techniques, such as bugging a bedroom with a tiny transmitter or using parabolic microphones to eavesdrop on conversations is admissible in court.
It sounds bizarre that evidence should rely on other villagers.
Time and again under his presidency Egyptian courts have passed sentences both cruel and bizarre, based on evidence so inane as to beggar belief – evidence that in other countries would have led not only to the abandonment of the proceedings but to the dismissal or resignation of those who had put it forward.
It turns out that a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation, in which state troopers have gone into the homes of elderly black voters in Orlando in a bizarre hunt for evidence of election fraud, is being conducted despite a finding by the department last May "that there was no basis to support the allegations of election fraud".
Ata ended up in a private collection in Barcelona; producers of the film Sirius latched onto the bizarre mummy as evidence of alien life.
Nobody picked up the referral on that Friday afternoon, and what happened to it was—according to Lord Laming, who headed the subsequent inquiry the subject of "some of the most bizarre and contradictory evidence" the inquiry heard.
This would permit an in-depth examination of the symptomology of bizarre fantasies given evidence suggesting that imaginary companions and related fantasies have a beneficial impact on development in TD children [ 39, 45].
And he is asking not for the independence many Tibetans feel is their birthright, but for "a middle way", genuine autonomy, or, put another way, for China to live up to its professed policies.Bizarre evidence of the Dalai Lama's continued sway over many of the 6m Tibetans still in their homeland came earlier this year in the form of tiger-skin bonfires.
To make matters even more bizarre, much of their evidence comes from the letters of Charles Darwin, in particular one that dates from 1853, in which he describes putting on skates to play "hocky" on an icy pond.
