Already severely disabled with paranoid schizophrenia,Matthew
Taylor,charged with threats to police and others may have to give
evidence over a video link.
Agoraphobic gives robbery evidence in her home
March 11 2003
An agoraphobic former bank teller seeking compensation following a bank
hold-up today gave evidence to a court hearing being held in the living
room of her Sydney home.
Stacey Page told NSW Supreme Court judge Jerrold Cripps that she was
driven to attempt suicide because she was too afraid to leave her house
after the hold-up.
The judge is holding court in Ms Page's home at Newport on Sydney's
northern beaches after her defence lawyers successfully argued she would
not be able to testify coherently if forced to attend the actual court.
Justice Cripps, together with court reporters taking notes, barristers
and solicitors, today crowded into Ms Page's living room for an expected
two days of evidence.
Ms Page, 38, was working at St George Bank's Spit Junction branch when on
June 12, 1998, a man jumped on the counter demanding money, yelling:
"I've got a bomb."
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