She told gardaí that she was in fear for her life and acting on her boyfriend’s orders at the time, having just seen him strangle Ms Ozolina. He also pointed to what she told gardaí after his crash, when she was still living with him: “I know now I can’t help him, I can’t change him. “What we are saying is there’s no reasonable excuse for what she did." That is the prosecution case.”He asked the jury to consider both duress and reasonable excuse as defences for his client. “What would the average person, objectively thinking, consider a reasonable excuse to be?”He said that ‘duress’ was another issue in the case.

Source: Evening echo February 13, 2018 17:37 UTC