A mechanical engineering and inflatables expert is told by the prosecutor and the magistrate to answer the questions put to him after a tense back and forth inside a Tasmanian court.
A defence witness has had a tense back and forth with the crown prosecutor during a cross-examination in the Devonport Magistrates Court.
Taz-Zorb owner Rosemary Anne Gamble has pleaded not guilty to failing in her work health and safety duty over the deaths of six children at the primary school during end-of-year celebrations on December 16, 2021.Zane Mellor, Peter Dodt, Jalailah Jayne-Maree Jones, Addison Stewart, Jye Sheehan, and Chace Harrison died, and three of their classmates were seriously injured, when a wind event known as a "dust devil" tossed a jumping castle across the school oval.
"Stop and listen to the question, professor," Ms Wilson said at one point, speaking over the witness. After three years, Hillcrest families endure four days of details about the few minutes that tore them apart
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