Comments by "Glamdolly" (@glamdolly30) on "COURT TV" channel.

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  10. Thank you for taking the time to write such a powerful and authentic account of this infamous domestic abuse case - and your very personal perspective and insights on the subject. I'm so sorry to hear of your childhood suffering, due to your abusive father. As you demonstrate, being an abuse survivor can give you highly developed empathy and a radar for the silent suffering and vulnerabilities of others, which I have no doubt you possess in spades. That's why you have called this situation so accurately, and correctly identified that the real domestic abuse victim is not Amber Heard but Johnny Depp. I believe anyone who has had the misfortune to be on the receiving end of narcissistic abuse, is likely to recognise it in Amber Heard's independently reported abusive (and in her general) behaviour. Victimhood is a favourite assumed identity of covert narcissists. Covert narcs are the most dangerous variety of narcissist IMO, as they can be very plausible and exploit a false victim status to great effect in order to wield power over others. They are control freaks who seek to possess their intimate partner, and resent sharing them with others. For the narcissistic Amber Heard, marrying superstar Johnny Depp was a trophy. But as a narcissist at the extreme end of the spectrum, she would/could not adapt to the limitations his VIP status inevitably put on her exclusive access to him. An obvious example of this was her rage that her physical and emotional abuses were frequently witnessed (and thwarted), by the intervention one of his security staff. According to psychologists, a classic tactic of narcissistic abusers is to isolate the victim from their family and friends to maximum their personal control - something Heard couldn't achieve with Depp whose status required a large number of staff pretty much 24-7. Thankfully these staff afforded him some protection from her assaults, helped him to physically escape her when she was kicking off at him, and would ultimately be invaluable witnesses to his abuse by her. As you probably know, Depp grew up with a mother who was physically and emotionally abusive to him and his 3 siblings (as the youngest, he undoubtedly suffered her wrath the most). His coping mechanism was to flee when he sensed his mother's rage building - he said her kids all knew to 'get out of the way' before something came flying at you - a fist, a kick or a flying telephone. They were copying their father's example, as he too tried to get away whenever their mom physically assaulted him, never retaliating (Depp said he twice witnessed his dad punch a wall in frustration, breaking his hand on one occasion). This is exactly the strategy Depp used with Amber Heard, taking evasive action as her anger built - typically locking himself in the bathroom, sleeping in one of his neighbouring apartments, or if they were travelling, escaping to another hotel room that had been booked especially for that purpose. Clearly this is not the default reaction to conflict of an abuser, but a victim. We've heard on the audio tapes that SHE secretly recorded, how verbally aggressive, belligerent and insulting she was with him at such times, knowing exactly how to inflict the worst emotional pain by calling him a lousy father to his kids, or a quote:"Fat, washed up actor". Her professional jealousy of Depp's success was frequently obvious in her verbal tirades. Again this is a narcissistic abuser's usual M.O., designed to erode the victim's confidence and self esteem, and heighten their own status. I believe Johnny Depp's traumatic, insecure childhood helped to make him a fantastic actor, as it equipped him with heightened empathy - the hallmark of the greatest stars, as empathy lets them access the authentic emotions and reactions of the characters they play. Unfortunately however, childhood abuse has many more negative repercussions for its adult survivors, one of which can be their subconscious attraction to abusers in romantic relationships. People may not know why they go through life with a series of broken relationships behind them. They are repeating old, familiar habits - namely doomed relationships with 'bad news' people like their abusive parent/parents! I hope when Depp has won this trial he will take some time out to see a great psychotherapist and work through the reasons he chose Amber Heard and even agreed to marry her after experiencing several serious incidents of abuse by her. At 58 he does not have a successful romantic track record behind him. As he approaches his 'golden years', it would be sad if that pattern of volatile, failed relationships were to continue.
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  20.  @dianaprince3176  I'm not American and as my posts make clear, I understand US defendants' right to represent themselves and cross examine witnesses - even minors, as in this case. I thought my point was clear, but as you didn't understand it I'm happy to explain it for you again: I don't believe that right for defendants in serious crimes like murder/rape to directly question witnesses, should extend to children. YouTube comments on the case suggest many people are outraged on this little boy's behalf. I hope this murder trial prompts sufficient public anger to start a national debate about child witnesses, that leads to greater legal protections for them. In my view the US justice system is weighted too far in favour of the defendant, to the detriment of its most vulnerable victims, minors. Ronnie O' Neal should not have been able to directly quiz his 11-year-old son and victim, about the ordeal he and his murdered mother and sister suffered at his hands. Additional psychological harm could be done to that child, in having to once again face his father and would-be murderer (even over Zoom), and revisit that life-changing horror. This is about as bad as domestic violence cases get. Ronnie O' Neal killed his 9 year old disabled daughter with repeated axe blows to her face, head and neck, witnessed by his then 8 year old son. He chased his fleeing girlfriend with a rifle, shooting at her as she ran to a neighbour's house for help. When the gun jammed, he beat the mother of his children to death on the front doorstep, the impacts breaking the rifle into pieces. He then returned home and stabbed his son so viciously, when emergency services arrived his intestines were hanging out. The boy also suffered burns when O' Neal set fire to the house. No justice system is perfect but as a journalist I can vouch child witnesses/victims are better protected and prioritised in British courts. Last year the Scottish Parliament passed the 'Vulnerable Witnesses Act'. It ruled in the most serious crimes, young people under 18 do not appear in court live, either in person or remotely, as this little boy did. Instead, minors pre-record their evidence in advance of the trial, and it is played to the jury. The new law, modelled on the Scandinavian legal system, means children don't have to face the accused in court or be cross examined. Psychologists recognise that giving evidence in court re-traumatises a child and can be almost as distressing as the crime itself. The laws of a country are not set in stone, and nor should they be. They should be organic and evolve with the changing culture and values, to reflect modern morality. Most people watching this alleged domestic killer quiz his son will feel revulsion. That gut instinct kicks in when a situation just isn't right - and in many people's eyes, doing this to a child is very wrong. The drama that played out in that courtroom this week reflected very badly on American justice. It can and should do much better than that!
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  21.  @dianaprince3176  I don't believe the defendant's rights should be violated - I believe the assumption of innocence is a cornerstone of any fair and effective judicial system. But in just about every field of human endeavour the rights of the child trump every other consideration. That has not happened in this murder trail - because of the defendant's legal rights - and that has created a strange and unacceptable situation, as reflected in the many comments here condemning it. That you have no comprehension of why so many are offended at the sight of a domestic murder suspect quizzing the child he is charged with attempting to murder, speaks volumes about you! I'm a journalist and the US legal system while different to the UK's, shares many fundamental principles with ours. If you'd understood my earlier comments, you'd have appreciated I was arguing for the law to be amended in one specific area relating to child victims/witnesses, as recently happened in Scotland. No defendant could claim they had not received a fair trial, if that minor change to protect children was implemented correctly. They could still put questions to the child, just not directly. We haven't had any retrial here as a result of the change - no reasonable person would conclude a trial was not fair because the defendant didn't address the child in person! But the fact you use Emojis and call people 'Karen' confirms your understanding of sophisticated concepts is extremely limited! Your aggressive posts to myself and others are weird and inappropriate. I think your problem is you're just smart enough to know you're not very smart. And that's a real tragedy for you. Keep communicating in Emoji, that's clearly your level!
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  27. All will be revealed at trial and it will no doubt be proved beyond a reasonable doubt by a compelling combination of forensic and circumstantial evidence. That the prosecution are sure the boys were murdered way back in September, three months before they were reported missing, is in itself damning. It shows there is no proof of life for Cincere and Classic, beyond September 2020 - no photos of them, no sightings of them by friends, family, neighbours, no attendance at playschools or even on local CCTV etc etc. Police will have trawled hours and hours of CCTV and found a point at which the West family outings no longer feature their two youngest adopted children. That alone is a big clue to the date of the murders! The allegation they were murdered in September shows they died when the Wests were living at their previous Bakersfield address NOT the house from which Trezell West claimed they both wandered out of a gate as he was collecting firewood (a likely story!) Forensic experts will have examined that previous Bakersfield address in detail, and likely found evidence of violence/foul play, eg trace amounts of the childrens' blood after a clean up by their killers. No doubt the house move itself - which prosecutors believe occurred after the murders - was an attempt to escape justice. The trial will also feature evidence from the older four children living in the West family home. The indictment document is in the public domain, and it tells some of the story. It alleges the Wests ordered the older children to participate in acts of violence against the two, now (allegedly) deceased youngest children. It also alleges the Wests threatened witnesses not to give evidence against them - very likely, those four children. If Trezell and Jacqueline West are innocent, they should be confident and welcoming this trial, when they can prove it - not standing in court in matching grey pyjamas looking like terrified rabbits caught in the headlights! Let them have their 'day in court' and give evidence in their own defence, if they can prove the kids went missing from their yard - or were ever living at that new address - they have no problem!
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  41. Excellent special report by Court TV. One by one, the Adelsons are falling like dominoes - first Charlie, who will die behind bars, next his mother Donna, the controlling spider at the centre of this family web, whose murder trial starts next week (she's done). And the really intriguing question now - has Wendi been clever enough to avoid prison for her role in her ex husband Dan Markel's murder? I agree with the final panel, Wendi Adelson's played a much smarter game than both her mother and her brother. But let's not forget, Wendi was the golden child in that family. The main reason she's escaped prosecution to date, is that her parents and older brother actively protected her, and kept her at arm's length from their grubby murder plot. However with Charlie's murder conviction and now Donna's prosecution, it seems cracks are appearing in their relationship with Wendi, the family princess. No doubt terrified of prison, Wendi is keeping her formerly close family at arm's length. Having done so much for her, Charlie and Donna are likely enraged. They may now be turning on Wendi. Could there be a third-act twist in this tale - will the Adelson family try to take Wendi down with them? The murder of Dan Markel was all about Wendi, first and foremost - and a family so massively egotistical they believed they could literally kill him, and get away with it. Wendi is involved in this crime up to her neck - she knew about it, and she endorsed it. Dan would be alive today, if his ex wife had wanted him that way. Wendi didn't want Dan alive, because he was beating her in the child custody courts and thwarting her having full control over their two kids - and by extension, full control over her life, and her family's lives. Interesting that we heard in this report prosecutors recently had a closed door meeting with Wendi's eldest brother Rob Adelson, long estranged from the Adelson family. Could he be called as a state witness at his mother Donna's imminent murder trial? His evidence would be dynamite, and keenly anticipated by the media. What is his insider take on the twisted family dynamics that got his former brother-in-law Dan Markel killed? We can be sure prosecutors are working hard behind the scenes to nail Wendi Adelson. An old girlfriend of Wendi's is talking to them, and spilling the beans about her in closed meetings. It's safe to assume she and Wendi are no longer friends! Like Wendi, Harvey Adelson, the family patriarch, has also been named as a conspirator in the murder for hire of Dan Markel. Could he be next to face a jury trial? This show will run and run.
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  50. ​ @AliceWilson-w9m  Richard Allen approached the authorities soon after the murders in February 2017 and pretty much confessed to being 'Bridge Guy', ie the man recorded following the girls across the bridge on Liberty German's Smartphone video. There's no question it's him - he said so himself! Allen stated he was at the trails/crime scene at the exact same time as the incident, confirmed he crossed the bridge, and even said he was wearing the same clothes seen on the man in the video. He was obviously panicked that video of him, as well as witness sightings, would identify him, and decided to 'get in front' of the story by putting himself forward as a witness, not the killer, and acting innocent. The chances of Allen being at the trails at the time of the murders, wearing the same outfit, as the suspect, and being recorded following the victims across the bridge (it's clearly him) - and NOT being the killer - are close to zero. I don't believe you have your facts right. Hopefully more reliable and detailed information about the case than is currently being peddled online, will emerge at trial. Sadly the bungled police investigation - and its crazy over-emphasis on secrecy - has inevitably allowed all kinds of misinformation and even elaborate conspiracy theories to fill the information void. It has also understandably weakened public faith that the guilty man has been charged. I'm confident had an experienced and competent team of detectives been running the show from the start, Richard Allen would have been arrested and charged within two weeks of the murders. If he had, there would be far less opportunity for the armchair detectives, naysayers and conspiracy theorists to make merry with the case. Senior police responsible for the severely flawed murder investigation, chiefly Supt Doug Carter, should be held fully accountable for their mistakes when the trial is concluded. Thanks to them, a highly dangerous man has walked free for five years. But the additional and prolonged suffering their incompetence has caused Libby and Abby's loved ones, is unforgivable.
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