What the jury within the Matt Wright NT Supreme Court trial didn’t hear

After three weeks of proof and numerous covert recordings, you would be forgiven for considering there was nothing left to study Matt Wright.

But now that the trial is over, the ABC can reveal what occurred whereas the jury was out of the room.

From a TV information report that nearly scuttled the entire thing earlier than it started to an audacious bid to have the case thrown out earlier than jurors even began deliberating, here is what we could not publish till now.

A Current Affair

The trial that captured the eye of the Northern Territory and the world was nearly over earlier than it started after defence barrister David Edwardson KC caught the earlier night time’s episode of A Current Affair.

Mr Edwardson stated his shopper was “deeply concerned” by the phase, which adopted the “extraordinary public interest” the trial had already attracted.

“What we don’t expect, in the normal course, are professional journalists to embark, the night before a trial, on such an appalling program as occurred last night,” he stated.

“Locked gates outside of my client’s premises with balloons from a birthday party of his child, one of his children, who was then three years of age as sort of emphasising [that] it’s the end of the road for Mr Wright.”

It was a uncommon assembly of the minds between prosecution and defence with Jason Gullaci SC becoming a member of the condemnation of the “journalism of the absolute lowest calibre”.

“[He] thinks it’s a great idea to take video footage out the front of the Darwin Correctional Centre and then makes these really quite crude analogies to the reference of the locked gate.”

Acting Justice Alan Blow in the end referred to as the jury in, and after considered one of them put their hand up as having watching this system however insisted they might be capable to stay neutral, the trial continued.

After Mr Edwardson earlier prompt the journalist in query “should get some legal advice”, Acting Justice Blow requested if there was “anything further that I should be saying”.

Ultimately, Mr Edwardson confirmed he had “no application to make” and a rapidly organized look by a Channel 9 solicitor was deemed pointless.

No case submission

After Mr Gullaci closed the prosecution case, the jury was given a protracted weekend whereas Mr Edwardson tried to persuade Acting Justice Blow to allow them to keep dwelling for good.

Mr Edwardson argued the costs of making an attempt to pervert the course of justice have been “properly described as a residual catch all, or an offence of last resort” and may by no means have been introduced.

The logic went that the cost solely utilized to makes an attempt “not specially defined” by one other cost, together with procuring one other particular person to destroy proof.

The defence argued this meant even when Wright had pressured Sebastian Robinson into doctoring flight information, he would solely be answerable for a cost attracting a fraction of the utmost penalty.

And even when he had lied to police, there was no suggestion Wright had been chargeable for the crash.

“That is not just simply misleading a police investigation, because that of itself lacks any capacity — or it’s not a course of justice that can be perverted.”

But Mr Gullaci countered that there have been “endless possibilities” as to how individuals can pervert the course of justice “so to try and exhaustively define it is pointless”.

“In some respects an attempt to pervert the course of justice is a bit like a manslaughter case, it can be committed in so many different ways that it’s really only limited by the human imagination,” he stated.

In the tip Acting Justice Blow sided with the prosecution and “concluded that there was a case to answer on all three counts”.

“In my view, it’s not necessary to identify any particular charge that the accused might have had in mind,” he stated.

“A non-specific fear of a prosecution based on an assertion that [Sebastian] Robinson had run out of fuel is something that the jury could infer, and that that would be sufficient to base a finding that there was an intention to pervert the course of justice.”

‘We want a jury’

The jury additionally missed most of the lighter moments in the course of the trial, together with Acting Justice Blow repeatedly forgetting to ask them into proceedings.

At one level, Acting Justice Blow referred to as on Mr Edwardson to proceed his cross-examination, solely to grasp he lacked an viewers.

“Sorry, I have got questions to ask but — we need a jury,” Mr Edwardson stated.

“Sorry, I was just telling [someone] I have got no peripheral vision on my right and of course they’re not there,” Acting Justice Blow replied.

On one other event, when Mr Gullaci was invited to take his ft, he replied: “Thank you, your honour, just — the jury.”

“Yes, that would help,” Acting Justice Blow conceded.

“I am sorry, we do it differently in Tasmania, we start with the jury in.”

“I got that impression, your honour,” Mr Galluci stated.

Later on, in direction of the tip of the trial, solicitor Luke Officer took Acting Justice Blow without warning after entering into Mr Edwardson’s footwear.

“But Mr Edwardson, any submissions about — sorry, Mr Officer, any submissions?” he stated, prompting a praise from Mr Gullaci.

 “You’re a lot better looking,” he stated.

Season two?

The trial was peppered with covert recordings of Wright talking together with his buddies and colleagues, however there was one secret tape they did not hear.

It concerned a dialog between Wright and his spouse Kaia regarding a member of a manufacturing crew during which Mr Gullaci stated the TV star was asking the opposite man “to get rid of some information so that the authorities won’t be able to access it”.

“I’m a bit worried about that GoPro footage, you know, of you and I flying,” Ms Wright says.

“We knew they were going to subpoena that footage — or I did.”

Mr Gullaci stated Mr Wright then responds: “That’s why I said to Nick, ‘F***ing get it out of there’.

“Nick stated, ‘Mate, we won’t simply — we simply cannot do away with it, if we have season two,’ and I stated, ‘Mate there’s not going to be a season two in the event that they f*** me over’.”

As “the tip of the street for Mr Wright” approaches, the prospects of a season two are actually slimmer than ever.