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As he was never afforded the opportunity to plead guilty to manslaughter in the original trial, my guess is that the sentence will be reduced to a level expected of someone who pleaded guilty to manslaughter. I could be very wrong.

I think cases like this serve to remind us how devastating alcohol is, the effects it can cause and the tragic consequences of its misuse. I think this man's life and countless others would have been so much more productive without alcohol.

Alison was wearing her morning walking shoes and clothes so I think the murder happened the next morning rather than the night before, which would leave basically no time for cleaning up Gerards clothes and shoes from the mud and dirt of accessing under the bridge. So I think he may have met a...

While I think we all agree that GBC is guilty, looking at that evidence chain it does look like the jury did a lot of the heavy lifting in this trial. Having said that I don't think the appeal will be successful.

Hi DrWatson. I welcome being corrected and thankyou for the trouble in writing your post. Either way it is good to see justice served. Sadly it won't bring back a loving mother of three young girls.

That may explain why they dropped the charge against Gerard of interfering with a corpse, maybe they want to nail someone else with that charge. Amazing how much info there is in the public arena nowadays!

It can depend on the circumstances, some people simply don't react as there is almost a relief there is closure - especially when they are waiting for a body to turn up. Some people go into a form of shock and don't really do anything, and I suppose some people are callous and don't care. So I...

Been looking around this site and there is a lot of passionate people who are there to support Allison and her family. I half expected a not-guilty verdict. I thought the depression related suicide was a somewhat plausible narrative. That night Allison had heard that the affair that she...