cross-examination

However, in a dramatic U-turn under cross-examination, Sharif later accepted "full responsibility" for his daughter's death.

But it was under forensic cross-examination by his wife’s barrister that Sharif finally cracked.

On cross-examination, Cianci pressed Colomey on why, if he felt the problems were so entrenched, he hadn’t raised them with the unit’s leadership.

She pointed to his admissions under cross-examination that he hit her in the face and head repeatedly with a bat and pole two days before her death.

Later, when asked under cross-examination whether Ms Hand had been in fear, Mr McGregor said there had been "no sign of distress, fear, anything other than enjoyment, elations and excitement".