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EXTREME LANGUAGE WARNING.
The Nine barrister Nicholas Owens SC began his cross-examination of a #BenRobertsSmith witness today by quoting an instagram post he had liked yesterday morning, while still giving evidence.. 1

Owens read the post into the court transcript: "When some fuckwit in a suit starts questioning your integrity and using his fucktard snake logic he learnt getting his tonsils bruised by some lecturer's spotty dick at their non-binary law school, remember one thing... 2

.."that this cunt will be one of the first to be held down and drowned in a muddy puddle for his fancy jacket when this society crumbles."
The Instagram post came with a picture of a man and a women labelled "Fairfax Media."
The witness, who has been accused of lying to ..3

cover up for BRS said by liking the post he hadn't meant it to "you personally, Mr Owens." But he said that and other similar Instagram posts he'd liked were "a bit of dark humor...it's meant to be funny and it's meant to agitate and it seems to have worked."
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The inscrutable Judge, Anthony Besanko, made no comment. The trial continues. @10NewsFirst