Moses is asking Connolly about the evidence that she “applied” the witness signature of Roxanne Thornton in her employment contract.
He says she has changed her evidence about the way she signed the contract multiple times. Earlier, Connolly had said she’d written it herself, and then added that she had traced over it.
“See, this is the position,” Moses says. “When you were confronted with the implausibility of your earlier evidence, you then came up with another explanation, trying to escape what you had been in effect proven to be, by counsel assisting, which was lying.”
“That’s not correct,” Connolly says. “When I realised the disconnect between what was being asked of me and the explanation I’d previously given, I understood that there was a disconnect between what I was saying and counsel assisting had been interpreting it.”
Moses asks: “Do you know what you did was forgery?”
“My understanding was it was not a document that required a wet signature, and it could be applied by a third party at that time and had been a practice that had been employed on occasion before. At no time did I think it was forgery.”
We’ve just got confirmation that the hearing will end at 4.30pm today – and return tomorrow morning.
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