Chapter 54: Chapter 54: A graphic scene is painted

The air conditioning was loud in everyone's ears.

'Could you go on please.'

An eyebrow twitched in resignation and, although she lifted her head her eyes remained downcast. 'Greg pushed Russell and he fell on to the bed and on to me and I lost it completely.' The lowered eyelids continued to veil her eyes.

'Miss Moody, would you tell the court the sequence of events as they then happened.'

Her sight lifted to the line at which a catwalk model is taught to range. Above the heads in the last row. 'Russell was on top of me and ... like I said, I was screaming and crying thinking he was going to kill me too. I was trying to get off the bed and Russell was scrambling about and Greg dragged him off and they started to fight. I mean, they were really fighting. Grabbing each other's hair and punching and rolling around the floor. Then Russell grabbed one of the rifles and Greg said for me to help.'

'You eventually succeeded in taking the rifle from him?'

'Yes.'

'What happened then?'