Quote:Arsie, I can NOT get my head around a teenager breaking a vase and "being a teenager" and lying about it, that's what teenagers do ... avoid responsibility ... or they try to .... compared to a 40 year old man killing his wife "accidentally" and lying about it. It does not "jell" in my mind.
Okay.....forget the teenage bit. Me. Make it me. I am not a teenager, and the ornament is the Indian Bride's most sacred Hindu thaing. If she knew I had done the deed, she'd de-nut me. In all other respects, the scenario stays the same.
Is there sufficient evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt that that I intended to destroy the object? The answer is so obvious.
No, there is not.
Quote:What you seem to forget is that the 3 daughters were there that night and, "asleep" ... but they were young kids and Gerbil may have warned them "not to say anything".
Perhaps in a few years they will "remember" their Mother being murdered.
Completely irrelevant when it comes to establishing intent......ignoring that there is absolutely no evidence that he so 'warned' them. They were asleep the whole time, it seems.