Wed, Mar 28, 1973
Count Alucard, a Dracula-themed illusionist, is shot dead on stage when a stunt involving a gun goes horribly wrong. His assistant (his wife, Rita) is accused of having tampered with the gun, killing him after discovering yet another of his affairs. did she purposely kill her husband, or was the gun faulty?
Tue, Mar 30, 1976
Stanley Roberts was electrocuted and killed when his crane touched cables; a young boy who rushed to help him was also killed in the incident. A postmortem showed that Roberts had drunk alcohol beforehand. His employer Albert Hunter is now charged with health and safety offences. The prosecution assert that Hunter knew that Roberts was an alcoholic but took no proper action to stop him working. His widow says she wrote to Hunter about her husband's drinking and also says he used to hit her. However the defence maintain that there was no evidence that Roberts was ever drunk at work and they took reasonable measures to ensure he was a safe employee.
Tue, Jan 10, 1978
Introverted middle-aged bachelor Leslie Simon and outgoing teenager Barry Gems seem worlds apart but an encounter between them in a parks public toilet late on a Saturday night left Mr. Simon badly injured. The Prosecution assert that Gems deliberately assaulted him. However the Defence suggest that Mr. Simon was making an unwanted homosexual advance to the young man who pushed him away, resulting in him accidentally falling and injuring himself on the slippery floor.