ONE day after admitting star witness Barbara Hanna made mistakes in her testimony, prosecutors in the Frank Smith bribery and extortion trial yesterday sought to repair her credibility, while also highlighting case elements they say prove the accused solicited payments for influencing Hanna’s receipt of a $500,000 contract.
Chief among the submissions given by lead Crown attorney Edward Jenkins, QC, was the defence of Mrs Hanna’s many outbursts during the trial to date, occurrences he dismissed as the responses of a woman “easily frustrated...”
ONE day after admitting star witness Barbara Hanna made mistakes in her testimony, prosecutors in the Frank Smith bribery and extortion trial yesterday sought to repair her credibility, while also highlighting case elements they say prove the accused solicited payments for influencing Hanna’s receipt of a $500,000 contract.
Chief among the submissions given by lead Crown attorney Edward Jenkins, QC, was the defence of Mrs Hanna’s many outbursts during the trial to date, occurrences he dismissed as the responses of a woman “easily frustrated...”
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