happygilmore. Yes he thought Anton Ferdinand a credible witness but he also said that 'there were discrepancies between the evidence of Mr. Cole and Mr. Ferdinand" He was referring to the statement in the changing room of what he thought Terry had said. Overall he thought Anton Ferdinand a credible witness,, although,throughout the trial it appeared to me that he thought that Ferdinand and Terry had convenient memory lapses.
I did not remember everything that was said in the trial, I would ask anyone could you remember everything you have heard over the over a three day period? As I have said one woman dropped off to sleep.
Anton Ferdinand would have been best advised not to have taken part in the case.
It was not presented as evidence in court, but Howard Riddle makes his own comments on the transcript.
"Another explanation, not one advanced by either party, but which certainly crossed my mind was that , is that Anton Ferdinand did hear the words, did not want to take it any further, agreed in the changing room that he had heard nothing and stuck by that account. In short he may initially have wanted to simply move on, and as things snowballed found it expedient to stick with that position".
In fact the whole triail was "he said that, no he said this".
I said that I felt sorry for the Ferdinand family and still do. They were very ill-advised to become part of this trial.
On the other hand I saw John Terry in court, he looked nervous and upset on the three days I sat in on the trial, his family must have been lived that this came to court.
Not one of the families have come out well from this. The only people who benefitted were the lawyers.
The taxpayers of this country have also lost out to the tune of £500.000.