Today, more than two and a half years after Graham was killed, neither his family nor the public has even seen an official police incident report, let alone heard the officers involved testify or be deposed.
(One of the detectives involved, Ray Kaminski, testified that Johnson talked with Dillon, who produced the written statement, after six hours with police – and further testified that he cuffed Johnson to the eyebolt, where she remained for at least that long).
The woman involved, who testified today, maintained that she had not wanted sex and had passed out, making it impossible for her to give proper consent.
"This attack occurred because Mr. Dennison is associated with the people involved," Walder testified, referring to what he and his lawyer portrayed as a retaliatory ambush by the Manns.
Trevor Hicks himself tried to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on Vicki, which involved, he testified, sucking vomit from her mouth, then he went with her in an ambulance – another scene of hell, with a teenage crush victim, Gary Jones, on the floor, and Hicks trying not to stand on him.
"He would always ask, 'What's going on?' And I couldn't answer because I wasn't" involved, Tanaka testified.
Edward Andersson, who worked with her at the think-tank Involve, testifies to her "gleeful participation in office karaoke".
Referring to the Chilcot inquiry into the invasion of Iraq, she added: "If you can gist Tony Blair's conversations with George Bush, why not let the public have some understanding at least of the nature of the evidence and who is involved in testifying.
The judge, Thelma Simpson, is allowing the teenagers involved to testify through closed-circuit television; she also granted the prosecution a request that the proceedings, which are expected to last the rest of the week, be closed to the public.
