Andi Brotherston on The case against Scott Watson

A compelling and persuasive take on the Scott Watson case by Andi Brotherston.

Brotherston was the first journalist to cover the case of the missing teenagers and covered it to and including the trial, which she sat through hearing all the evidence. She has little doubt Scott Watson killed Ben and Olivia (the same conclusion another journalist who sat through the trial also reached – John Goulter). In fact she tells how of the 13 journalists who sat through the trial 12 thought Watson was guilty and just one not convinced.

Read her entire article, but for me here are some key takeaways:

• The so called mystery ketch has only ever been sighted by Guy Wallace (and not even him at first). Not one of the other 1,500 people there ever saw it and no photo exists of it among the several thousand taken. It was allegedly moored “rafting up” to another two yachts but neither of those yachts recall it
• Scott Watson’s yacht was moored in the exact place Wallace dropped Ben and Olivia
• The description Wallace gave of the ketch was a beautiful yacht with brass portholes and ornate roping. It would have been admired and photographed by many if it existed.
• When Watson was first interviewed by police he lied about what he was wearing on New Year’s Eve
• Watson has refused to give the Police the clothes he was wearing on NYE. He claims he doesn’t know where they are. Brotherston suggests an innocent man would do everything they could to find those clothes if they had no incriminating forensic details on them
• In 70 hours of recorded conversations between Watson and his former girlfriend, Watson never denied doing it. His attitude came across as smug and completely devoid of compassion.  The defence didn’t use one minute of the recordings in their defence even though they could have.