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Microsoft and partners may be compensated if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. Found the story interesting? Mr Taft told Justice Osborn that Paisley was "very much the putty to the manipulations" of Brazel, a "highly intelligent, psychopathic witness".

Mr Taft said the Court of Appeal judges who granted the retrial found that Judge Fagan should have exercised more control over Brazel. Justice Osborn responded that the trial's defence barristers had "effectively allowed Brazel to camp in the witness box for four days and make his home there" during their cross-examinations.

Paisley was a chronically institutionalised man who had spent much of his life "behind glass or walls", Mr Taft said. Mr Lewis said that for Wenitong baring his buttocks was an expression of rage over his perception that Judge Fagan had failed to control Brazel.

He said such a defiant act was disrespectful to a court, but "there are a whole tribe of the successors to the writers of Monty Python and Mr Steve Vizard and his various shows which think this baring buttocks is hilarious". Barrister Gavan Meredith described Sonnet's contempts as an uncontrollable "outpouring of frustration".

Mr Meredith said Sonnet, now on bail, appreciated the enormity of the task of rebuilding his life. Finally, Russell Sarah, for Johnson, said Brazel had set out to inflame each accused because he know which "buttons to push". But Justice Osborn said he doubted that Brazel had usurped the trial and deliberately antagonised the accused.

He told Mr Sarah: "I've already put to you, that to use your cricketing analogy, I may ultimately think Brazel was playing off the back foot, when, as you say, he's on the front foot. Crown prosecutor Chris Ryan asked Justice Osborn, who is expected to sentence next Friday, to consider a "short, sharp, shock" term of imprisonment for each man.

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