Daily Grind Of Still Water

“He was going on so much and shouting and that, that I just picked that gun up and fired it. I am sorry, but that’s it.”Mr O’Brien wearing a tie and light grey pullover, sat looking at notes as the sound of his voice came from a large black box used for police tapes. “I don’t know if it’s in my interests or not, but Mr Scott has been away for treatment on three occasions that I know of,” he said in the recording. “He was away for two months for mental treatment, one or two people told me he was schizophrenic.”O’Brien went on: “He was shouting and bawling You could see the froth at the side of his mouth. He was sticking his finger in my chest.” There was another shotgun in the room of the barn where the final row took place, but that was broken, he said The usable gun was a 12-bore single-barrelled shotgun.

“I picked the second gun up when he started to shout and turned his back, and I just fired it.”I don’t know what happened, I just went. I have had so much with that man since 1992, it’s unbelievable.”He has driven us around the bend with his language, his abuse, his shouting. Every time there is anything wrong he always comes digging at you The man just goes berserk. Every other week there’s something to fight about.”Mr O’Brien said on the tape played to Norwich Crown Court that he had worked with the previous owner of the stud from 1977: “I never had any trouble with that man.”He described how his workload had grown since Mr Scott took over in 1992, with days often beginning at 5.30am and continuing into the evening “I didn’t decide to shoot him,” he declared “I just took the gun up and fired it at him He had finished me He told me I was suspended, whatever that meant …

from that time yesterday evening.”He denied seeing Mr Forster standing nearby after the shooting and telling him: “The next one’s for you.”O’Brien said that the final confrontation had its origins two days earlier at a bloodstock sale in Newmarket when Mr Scott became “very abusive” after hearing he had refused to make an appointment for potential buyers to view horses. Further excerpts from the interview tapes were later played to the jury.The trial was adjourned until today.. Vasken Akoghlanian was trying to explain to the court how three British soldiers behaved when an armed Cypriot policeman stopped them outside the British military base at Dhekelia and ordered them to walk down the road with their hands on their heads. As a barman back down the road at Ayia Napa, the Armenian had already concluded, he said, that the soldiers were drunk.

“The three guys started shouting and they obviously wouldn’t obey what the policeman was saying.”

The three soldiers – Privates Jeff Parnell, 23, Alan Ford, 26, and Justin Fowler, 27, of the Royal Green Jackets, all charged with the manslaughter of Danish tour guide Louise Jensen on 13 September last year – sat without showing emotion as Petros Clerides, the prosecuting counsel, asked Mr Akoghlanian what the soldiers were saying to the policeman on the road outside Dhekelia. “They were shouting ‘fuck you, fuck off’,” the Armenian replied, and there was silence in court.
Not that anyone was shocked. The court had already been told by Mr Akoghlanian’s fellow barman, Ermis Andreou, that one of the same three British soldiers had drunkenly shouted the same words at him when they tried to park outside the Patio Mazeri restaurant in Ayia Napa less than two hours’ earlier – just before Louise Jensen was murdered. The problem, it turned out, was that no one in the Larnaca Assize Court could translate the offending word.Faced with that most archaic of English words, the female interpreter raised her hands in despair.