00:00That's Matt March, our defendant.
00:05So that's what confidence looks like.
00:07He says he's innocent.
00:08How long did this girl on for?
00:10Three years, began when she was 15.
00:12The teacher? Specialised squash coach.
00:14Bet he did a bit of fill-in history.
00:16Two-unit ancient, how did you know?
00:19According to Miss Isabella's statement,
00:21March told her he was unhappy in his marriage,
00:23wife didn't understand him, they hadn't had sex for years.
00:26Said she was different from the other girls her age,
00:28she was mature, special.
00:30How do these men think they can keep getting away with this?
00:33Drop by my office in 20 minutes.
00:34You can take me through the statements.
00:36Thanks, Joanna.
00:37And, um, thank you for this opportunity.
00:40Where did this sexual relationship begin?
00:42Um...
00:43The squash knockout.
00:45March 08, Tareen, New South Wales combined school squash knockout.
00:48Why are you reading my file?
00:50Tracy thought I could help you out on this.
00:52Always grateful for another set of eyes.
00:54This whole matter still boils down to his word against hers.
00:57And the note, what does it say again?
01:00Uh, it's in March's own handwriting to a woman, we assume,
01:03about missing you, missing your lips, uh, wanting your body,
01:07your cute breasts.
01:09Now, in her statement, Miss Isabella claims the note was written to her in 2009,
01:13but March claims that he...
01:14It was for his wife and referred to a 2006 trip she took to Fiji
01:17and how much he was going to miss her.
01:19March says he has no idea how a private note to his wife
01:21came into Miss Isabella's possession.
01:23Well, he says it must have been stolen from him.
01:25It speaks to a pattern of obsession he claims Miss Isabella has for him.
01:28What's a lime cool crusher?
01:30Maybe you're best to answer that.
01:32You're more of a target market than me.
01:34Can someone put me out of my sociological misery?
01:36It's an alcohol pop.
01:38Vodka, lime, sugar.
01:39Teenagers like them.
01:40It's very sweet.
01:41It's very frothy.
01:42It's mentioned in the notes.
01:43So March claims that his wife liked to drink them,
01:45but we're saying it's more the sort of thing a giggly young woman might like.
01:48Yes.
01:49Alright.
01:50Now, the defence strategy will be to paint Miss Isabella as a slut.
01:52Well, they still do that.
01:53It's the 1950s in there,
01:55so we need to find out if she's ever had any boyfriends,
01:57you know, the sort of thing,
01:58and organise a conference with this best friend.
02:02Excuse me.
02:03I'm Tatum, one of the solicitors.
02:05I'm so sorry.
02:06I didn't realise we'd started.
02:08You were scared of the consequences if you're told.
02:11That's correct, isn't it?
02:12That's exactly what I'll say in court, yes.
02:17But it's not exactly true.
02:20No-one put pressure on you not to tell, did they?
02:26No.
02:28Why do you think Gemma didn't go to the police herself?
02:30Because she was worried about getting into trouble.
02:32Not that.
02:34Then what?
02:35She loves him.
02:39It's not impossible, is it?
02:41We were fifteen or seven.
02:44Fifteen is still underage.
02:46For being in love with someone.
02:48Anyway,
02:49you don't feel that you're a child that needs protecting at that age.
02:52You know what you're doing.
02:54Don't you?
02:56Matt March did still take advantage of Gemma.
02:59The night they first kissed, she knocked on his door.
03:02She took the bottle of red wine.
03:03She knew what she was going there for.
03:05Gemma never wanted some boy from her class to be her first.
03:09She wanted a man.
03:10She knew exactly what she was doing.
03:13She knew what she was doing?
03:14Crikey.
03:16It's amazing what self-persuadists we can be, despite the evidence.
03:20How do you know she's deluded?
03:21I was fifteen.
03:22I remember how we flirted with the spunky teachers.
03:24We knew exactly what sort of power we had.
03:26Which was absolutely no power.
03:28We weren't all helpless victims waiting to be preyed upon by evil teachers.
03:32Are you serious?
03:33Well, I know it doesn't fit the narrative, but young women are more...
03:37It's complicated.
03:38Did you speak to any girls when you were fifteen?
03:40Not including your sisters.
03:42Well, consent, or whatever the hell you're talking about, is irrelevant.
03:46Why are you even arguing this?
03:47I'm not, I'm not.
03:49Just...forget it.
03:51Don't you dare start a conference without telling me.
03:53I just assumed you were wedding shopping.
03:56Ow!
03:58That's it.
04:03Gloves are off.
04:04I'm so scared.
04:05Don't be a child.
04:06I didn't just peel off imaginary gloves.
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