Court Reporter: Gail's Trial, Day 3

We're reporting to you from the courtroom in Weatherfield where Gail McIntyre is on trial for murdering her husband Joe. Today is the final day of testimony and it's been an interesting one.

Rumours have it that the last minute witness for the Defence has legged it and disappeared and that hasn't gone over well, leaving the accused and her family on tenterhooks. The trial resumed after a break with the next witness to speak was the son of the accused,  Mr. David Platt.

He backed up his mother's story and admitted his part in the cover up later, though his mother had lied to the police and told them she had sent the text and flowers. That gave the prosecution all they needed to jump all over his story and his testimony seems to have gone down in flames.

Closing arguments were pretty clear. The prosecution painted them all as liars with pants aflame and the Defence said Joe's death was a mere accident.  The expert witness said that it was possible the boom of the boat could have knocked Mr. McIntyre into the water, which was the defence's case, and the prosecution witnesses were discredited enough so that there may be reasonable doubt in the minds of the jurors but Mr. Platt's testimony could have damaged his mother's case. The family of Mrs. McIntyre were seen to be looking rather grim as the jury went for deliberations and the jury looked rather dubious. I think we could be in for a long wait on the result.