00:00Filing in to hear day three of evidence from the pilot who survived the helicopter crash
00:08at the heart of Matt Wright's criminal trial, Mr Wright's barrister David Edwardson KC
00:14relentless interrogating the witness about a series of text messages downloaded from
00:19Mr Robinson's phone written in the years leading up to 2022, mostly about drugs.
00:26In one text exchange read to the court, Mr Robinson told a friend might have to come
00:31down Monday, crook as a dog, his friend texting back, snorting too much coke out of Maddie's
00:36arse bro. At one stage, Mr Robinson asked, are you implying I'm a drug dealer? Yes. No. You
00:44sourced cocaine, you supplied it to somebody else, you get paid for it. That's trafficking. You agree?
00:49I don't understand what trafficking is, but I'm putting people in connection with each other.
00:53After the texts came the videos, Mr Wright's lawyer tendering a USB drive containing 11 clips,
01:00some appearing to show Mr Robinson sharing alcohol with an Aboriginal ranger in Arnhem Land
01:06and joking about being high. Mr Robinson, who suffered a brain injury as a result of the
01:12accident, has told the court he has little to no memory of the days leading up to the accident.
01:18David Edwardson today pressed the witness about this fact, asking if he could in fact
01:23recall attending a party and doing drugs just two days before the accident. Mr Robinson told
01:29the court he could not recall.
01:32You don't even remember being there? No, I don't. And you've got no recollection of where
01:37you were and how it was that you came to have cocaine in your system at the time of the crash?
01:42No, I have no recollection of the weeks prior to the accident.
01:45Mr Robinson gave evidence he had no memory of the chopper being refuelled before the crash.
01:51In an interview with police, however, he told investigators the chopper definitely didn't
01:56run out of fuel. Mr Edwardson suggested to the witness that he was worried he hadn't refuelled the
02:02helicopter and would be blamed for the death of Chris Willow Wilson. Mr Robinson agreed he did have
02:08concerns, but said he knew in his heart that wasn't the reason the chopper went down.
02:13Fatigued after three days of questioning, court adjourned early today. Mr Robinson will return
02:20for his fourth and final day of evidence tomorrow.
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