Statements will not be admitted
All oral or written statements made by Private Shane Coulthrust are inadmissible. That was the ruling by Judge Advocate Lieutenant Commander Rita Evans yesterday after defence attorney Andrew Pilgrim QC had objected on Monday’s opening day to lead investigator Sub-Lieutenant Alexander Kellman reading from his official notebook. In it were a number of oral submissions made to him by the accused, which Pilgrim said could be considered admission or a …