Thread: I love his explanation.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/...er-with-sword/



A mother repeatedly struck an intruder with an ornamental samurai sword after finding him leaving her three-year-old daughter's room naked in the dead of night, a court has heard.

The 31-year-old man, whose name has been suppressed, faced the first day of a trial in Brisbane District Court on Monday.

He has pleaded not guilty to indecent treatment of a child under 12, rape and burglary.

The court heard the three-year-old girl's parents were alerted to an intruder in their Aspley home after being woken by muffled crying about 2.30am (AEST) on January 21, 2009.

During questioning by crown prosecutor Vicki Loury, the girl's father said he crash-tackled the naked intruder and then struggled with him until police arrived.

"I struggled to get a hold of him to get him down on the floor. It seemed like forever," the father said.

"I remember yelling out to (my wife) to call the police."

He said during the struggle the man managed to put his shorts back on and press buttons on his digital camera.

"After he did what he did with the (camera) he was a bit more submissive," the father said.

During her witness testimony, the mother said she immediately went into her daughter's bedroom to find her crying with her pants off.

She then went out to the lounge room where her husband was wrestling with the intruder.

She told the court she picked up an ornamental samurai sword and struck the intruder in the back of the head, the side of the face, and across the back.

"I became enraged because it just didn't make sense," she said.

"So I picked up a small samurai sword and unsheathed it.

"But then (my husband) yelled out `no', so I sheathed it.

"I saw the sheath cracking but kept hitting him."

When police arrived to question the man, he said he had been taking a night walk to photograph the moon, bats and mammals in a park.

He claimed he was investigating a noise inside the home, only to be bashed by theoccupants.

"He was telling us we had got the wrong person, repeatedly," the mother told the trial.

However days later in a follow-up interview with police, the man admitted to sexually abusing the child and taking photos.

Ms Loury said police were also able to download photos from a broken memory card found at the girl's house.
The trial, which is expected to last for a week, continues before Judge Michael Rackemann.

What a great explanation... I hope his original statement was more elaborate and they just trimmed it down for the article. Something along the lines that his trousers got stuck on a tree branch as he was heroically coming into the house to see what the disturbance was, he took his shirt off because a bat crapped on it and the smell would have clearly given him away to anyone in the throws of something suspect and thus wanted to keep his element of surprise and so on...

That man is as innocent as the pope or I'll eat my hat!