I forget

Why does Luigi Vitale get blasted by the Coroner for not being able to recall things about the events surrounding Dianne Brimble’s death, when it seems to be a perfectly legitimate excuse for politicians and public servants - eg in the AWB inquiry, forgetfulness was contagious, businessmen - eg Alan Bond (not only did he have memory loss but supposedly some brain damage to go with it, from which he’s made a remarkable recovery post his legal troubles), Jodee Rich and others, football players - who seem to regularly forget that someone punched them when it comes tribunal time?

Vitale is one of the 8 men of interest over the death of Mrs Brimble.  He repeatedly answered “I don’t recall”, even after counsel assisting the inquest, Ron Hoenig, had told him there was no evidence to date to implicate him in the death.   The coroner got sick of this, and told him:

“You are answering questions as if you have got something to conceal - whether personal or trying to protect someone else, I don’t know,”

Spot on there, Ms Coroner!

The inquest should get interesting when recordings of intercepted phone calls between the 8 men discussing their evidence (thats polite for getting their stories straight) get played to the court.  That will be revealing … wonder if it will get one or more of them to break ranks and rat on whichever ultra-sleazy subset of them actually drugged Dianne Brimble to death.