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Christine Graham
speaks on ...

the satisfaction of working with courageous witnesses

Transcript

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Robert Utter: What’s been the most satisfying part of your work for you?

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Most satisfying part. Well, I don’t want to sound revengeful but it was actually having one victim witness identifying one of the accused in court in a very courageous way, having gone through what she had gone through. That was I think the most satisfying and one of the most, my proudest achievement, I think. Getting her as a witness was very hard. She was very resistant.

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RU: Of course.

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And she had suffered a lot of personal trauma. And there were very stupid little problems surrounding her. You know, she couldn’t see very well because, and they couldn’t get her glasses so she could see in the courtroom. So there was one thing after the other but eventually we managed to overcome all that. And I believe she made a very credible witness and she managed to identify one of the accused, in a, yeah, in a very special way, in a very courageous way.