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Speaker 1: Apo Che Production.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to our Little Lady and an episode I've

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Speaker 2: been excited to share for some time. In this episode,

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Speaker 2: we're going to catch up with Jason and Amanda, who

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Speaker 2: are busy in Tasmania giving back to someone that's helped

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Speaker 2: them a lot. With an election this weekend. This is

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Speaker 2: less about politics and more about helping someone that's helped

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Speaker 2: Jason and Amanda, what are you doing?

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Speaker 3: Ambitionite dropping off Jackie Lamby fines mate because she's looked

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Speaker 3: after us, we're looking after her in an election.

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Speaker 4: We've got the East Coast leg of the signage to

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Speaker 4: put out two volunteers that have offered their fences front

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Speaker 4: randas just a handful of people.

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Speaker 1: She didn't want to.

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Speaker 4: Fuss too much about promoting through the election because she

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Speaker 4: said she's done the work and she continues to do

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Speaker 4: the work and it's beats for itself. So we're just

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Speaker 4: a little reminder, but.

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Speaker 5: They're pretty big signs.

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Speaker 3: Jay.

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Speaker 2: In the last episode, you heard Byron Collins with his

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Speaker 2: interim report on Eden's death. Up until now, the coroners

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Speaker 2: have prevented doctor Collins from obtaining photos of the autopsy

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Speaker 2: of Eden.

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Speaker 4: I've been a little fragile because of the reality of

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Speaker 4: what Byron has described.

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Speaker 1: And I just feel like.

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Speaker 6: It's okay how alone Eden felt on that night with

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Speaker 6: all the people that she encountered, not one of them

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Speaker 6: cared enough to come and inform us or bring her home.

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Speaker 4: And even after her death, the way they handled her,

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Speaker 4: pathology and the autopsy.

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Speaker 1: The people that were handling her, they didn't regard her

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Speaker 4: The people from Dunn's funeral were the only people that

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Speaker 7: And I just feel like, what a horrible ending to

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Speaker 5: So that's how Amanda feels. Jay. It broke her mate.

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Speaker 5: You know, I read it.

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Speaker 3: As well, and I mentioned to you last week before

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Speaker 3: when we were raging this date, how that report, that

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Speaker 3: interim report made me feel the emotions, And I'm going

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Speaker 3: to share it with you, Jay, I felt more emotions

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Speaker 3: on that last episode you gave us than I felt

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Speaker 3: throughout a long time. I was at first angry, I

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Speaker 3: people that have done this, and then I thought, no,

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Speaker 3: this is deliberate I'm actually embarrassed for them because when

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Speaker 3: you look at the detail in the pathologist's report, he

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Speaker 3: mentions the pathologist that did the autopsy report was quite qualified,

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Speaker 3: and there's things in there that the second injury to

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Speaker 3: Eden's neck, which is a separate injury to the hanging one,

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Speaker 3: is indicative of homicide when I've done my research. So

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Speaker 3: that to me makes me think the pathologists found a

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Speaker 5: Now there it was three.

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Speaker 3: Or four days after Eden died, so that was an

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Speaker 5: I read light shine and on Eden's body at the autopsy.

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Speaker 3: Yet the police that were investigating it didn't seem to

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Speaker 3: how that second injury occurred in her neck. Now let's

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Speaker 3: be mindful also, Jay, we didn't ask for the person

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Speaker 5: Was told happened to Eden. Isn't it interesting what he

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Speaker 3: I'm just really pested off, Jay, and it's upset my

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Speaker 3: whole family. We're picking up pieces because of that report

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Speaker 3: can't be finalized. It's a kick in the guts again

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Speaker 4: What Jason's saying, when that person found those suspicious injuries,

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Speaker 1: Gone back to her little body and checked. And why

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Speaker 1: didn't they check her? Why weren't fingernails scrapings? Don't they

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Speaker 5: What the hell was that?

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Speaker 3: And you know me and we know now, Jay, and

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Speaker 3: I'm sure you're aware. There's things that have come out.

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Speaker 3: One of those things is there was a black.

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Speaker 5: Band under Eden at the tree. Now a hairband.

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Speaker 2: Talk to me about how you got that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. When we asked for the actual all the slides

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Speaker 3: Richard Byron Collins, the coroner provided twenty five pitches okayjpeg

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Speaker 3: whatever they're called. Now where we haven't looked at a

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Speaker 3: there's twenty five documented given to him by the coroner

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Speaker 3: on her file. Now, interestingly enough, when we got the

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Speaker 5: Now that's an anomaly in what the coroners had.

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Speaker 3: So we're now found out the police had more photos

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Speaker 3: than they provided the coroner, so we wanted to know

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Speaker 3: what was in those photos.

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Speaker 5: Now, one of them is almost.

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Speaker 3: Identical to let's say, fote A ten, which is okay interesting,

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Speaker 3: But the second one is a black hairband. Now, Eden

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Speaker 5: It's not Eden's hairband.

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Speaker 3: Were shown that we now know whose hairband that is, because.

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Speaker 5: Let's think about it, Jaye. All the way back in

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Speaker 5: the start of the podcast, someone was getting their hair

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Speaker 5: braided by Eden that night. Kate Young Kate.

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Speaker 3: Now I'll guarantee you that hairband has Kate's DNA on

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Speaker 3: it and it's.

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Speaker 5: Yet again destroyed.

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Speaker 3: So this is why the police and they're all just

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Speaker 3: trying to close this up, mate, because they got nothing

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Speaker 3: to convict anyone because they fucked Upmrte and they're just

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Speaker 3: this one shut and it's not going to work.

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Speaker 5: That's not Eden's, that was never DNA tested.

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Speaker 3: So what we now know is there is no evidence

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Speaker 3: available for the Karner or for the court to convict

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Speaker 3: anyone because they've destroyed it all. And that's embarrassing because

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Speaker 3: of their mistake, and they're trying to handle it over

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Speaker 3: to Jason Vanna and saying, you people are dissatisfied, grieving parents.

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Speaker 3: You need to move on. We've made up our decision.

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Speaker 3: We're right, you're wrong. Bullshit, we're not wrong. You people

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Speaker 5: You need to fix this mess.

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Speaker 4: When you've got someone like Paul Reynolds who is now.

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Speaker 4: I mean, clearly he was in Thick, and the investigating

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Speaker 1: Say he was no part of it. I mean, why is.

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Speaker 4: This all written and lied about if there was not

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Speaker 5: Because he's not a convicted pedophile.

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Speaker 3: They're saying it's an alleged so they're saying he's a

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Speaker 1: Just be really quite just stuff.

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Speaker 5: Sorry, Jay, we're a bit. Yeah, you've got us. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: the last few weeks have been really tough on us.

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Speaker 3: And I do want to thank you for having that

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Speaker 3: last episode with doctor Byron Collins, because it really opened

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Speaker 3: up my eyes to what's going on and it's made me,

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Speaker 3: as you can hear, I've got a lot of emotions

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Speaker 3: going on inside me. My chemicals, every fiber at different

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Speaker 3: stages is hot, and I haven't felt that in a while,

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Speaker 3: probably since I was in a multi kickbox and Marie.

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Speaker 3: I'm really fiery, j And I'm probably not very approachable,

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Speaker 3: and I don't like being that person, as you know,

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Speaker 3: because I'm a friendly sort of a guy.

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Speaker 5: Mate. They're bringing out the worst in me, but I'm

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Speaker 5: not going to let him destroy me.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to be strong and I'm going to get

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Speaker 3: through this and I'm not giving up, mate, because I

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Speaker 3: think we're really close. Mate, And thank you j be

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Speaker 3: because they thought they could silence us, and they probably

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Speaker 3: could because they're in a small little town on the

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Speaker 3: east coast of Tasmania where you know, secret squirrel business happens.

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Speaker 5: But you know, with what you've done, We've.

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Speaker 3: Got to tell our story and no one will believe

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Speaker 3: without doubt.

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Speaker 5: We've created the doubt for people to now believe us.

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Speaker 3: We've not only created doubt to believe, we've got strong

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Speaker 3: evidence that Eden met foul play.

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Speaker 5: And when not going away, Jay, I can continue that

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Speaker 5: conversation with you.

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Speaker 3: We are going to continue to fight this till we

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Speaker 3: get the truth written and Eden's name cleared.

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Speaker 2: You can hear the Jason and Amanda are angry at

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Speaker 2: how hamstrung they are with the current rules around moving

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Speaker 2: forward with this case. How are you feeling now, do

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Speaker 2: you feel like you're closer.

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Speaker 5: Closer to what Jay?

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Speaker 3: You know, if these people are in control of the

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Speaker 1: Up the Jason, we are closer than ever.

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Speaker 4: This is the closest that we've ever been because.

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Speaker 5: We all now now through doctor Borron Collins that you know,

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Speaker 5: how they determined ed and died in the seventeenths is inadequate.

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Speaker 5: You know that there's just no reason to say she

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Speaker 5: where did he give? What did she rely on to

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Speaker 5: come back with that? What? There was medical evidence.

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Speaker 1: There was no evidence about the mental anguish.

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Speaker 4: There was no evidence about the way that Eden was found,

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Speaker 4: There was no evidence of her pathway, like I told you.

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Speaker 3: Complete then this is almost laughable.

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Speaker 8: They're saying in the police's statements through your Rights of Information,

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Speaker 8: and we've got a couple of police officers as saying

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Speaker 8: this that Amanda Westbrook told them that the rape came

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Speaker 8: from our place off a craypot.

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Speaker 3: Okay, now I only owned two crape pots. That's one

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Speaker 3: from a maund of one for me. You've gotta have

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Speaker 3: a license for it. Now, I spliced my rapes on

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Speaker 3: the pot jay, so they go through the pot, then

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Speaker 3: they come in and then they get spliced and burnt,

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Speaker 3: so they're very sealed and says the other end on

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Speaker 3: two boys.

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Speaker 5: So for hypothetically to have got our crypot rapes, she

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Speaker 5: would have had to use a sharp knife and she

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Speaker 5: would have had to cut them.

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Speaker 3: Not only that, they would have actually been taken from

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Speaker 3: the craypots.

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Speaker 5: Now, you would think if Amanda.

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Speaker 3: Had told these police offers that have put in there

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Speaker 3: after David's and they've sworn statements that Amanda had said this,

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Speaker 3: you'd think you'd go up there and check those crypots.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't you, especially if you dropped me off.

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Speaker 5: Guess what, mate, No one come to our place and.

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Speaker 3: Checked the crypots, and if they did, they would have

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Speaker 3: found the rape didn't come from our crpepots because they

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Speaker 3: were still on the cratepots.

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Speaker 5: Now we've also found, now that.

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Speaker 3: We've got rights of freedom of information, that the rape's

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Speaker 3: not even the same as the crypot ropes we had. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: it's all self serving written on their behalf just to

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Speaker 3: all just say this is what's happened. Let's all just

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Speaker 3: fucking say that Eden killed us up and we'll sign

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Speaker 3: this off and we'll silence the Westbrooks, cheat them badly

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Speaker 3: and they'll sell up and they'll move. We're not settling up, Jay,

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Speaker 3: We're building a house a little time at home. I've

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Speaker 3: got a boat. I love fishing and this coastline's gorgeous.

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Speaker 3: You've been here, mate, nothing's making me leave this beautiful

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Speaker 5: So we're going to get to the bottom of it, Jay.

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Speaker 4: And Eden is not the only person child who they've

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Speaker 1: A Pandora's box.

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Speaker 5: I wonder there fight against it, They've going to.

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Speaker 4: Want to see the same because the admiration that Jason

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Speaker 3: Because it takes courage to share this sad story about

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Speaker 5: It's as good as it's been, it's also it has

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Speaker 3: We're talking about a fifteen year old girl found hung

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Speaker 3: That's not something to be you know, we're not proud

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Speaker 9: Dear mister and missus Westbrook, I am writing to thank

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Speaker 9: and Related Legislation Miscellaneous Amendments Bill twenty twenty five to Bill. Firstly,

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Speaker 2: I want to ask how you felt when you saw

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Speaker 7: It was a long time coming, but it felt like

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Speaker 1: And I found since that most.

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Speaker 4: People would expect this to be something that goes without

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Speaker 3: It's a privilege to have someone of the caliber of

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Speaker 5: Highly of Amanda and I in our family.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you heard what he said on

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Speaker 2: So this legislation allows you to have any of the

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Speaker 3: I've read some pretty horrific things on my door to Jay,

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