It's all in the timing
The case of the dissapearing phone call
IN ORDER for Gadsden to deliver his script, he needed to give it a structure; show how one call followed another or coincided with those involved being in a certain place at a certain time. When the CPS gave Geoff’s legal team an initial schedule of calls to and from his mobile phone, it didn’t include the call at 6.30pm – when he was first contacted about the dodgy brakes.
But there was the schedule, in black and white – no call at 6.30pm. Maybe I got it wrong, he thought, now I can’t be sure what time it was. Understandably wary of putting anything inaccurate in his pre-trial defence statement, Geoff agreed with his lawyers to remove any mention of the 6.30pm call. But then, two months before the trial, the final phone schedule was presented by the CPS and there it was – the 6.30pm call. Now the CPS would be able to say that Geoff was being economical with the truth because he was trying to get away with something. And this despite the fact that the draft defence case statement was accidentally read out in court in front of the judge and prosecutor.