The assistant district attorney who ran this case is named Rosaura Pizarro and she has been in that office for nineteen years and she said something to me in the July that I have repeated since.

She said: “Colonel, I will take this to trial if you want it.

You are entitled to ask for that and I will do it.

“Here is what it costs.

Your daughter is six.

If we try five defendants, she is going to be interviewed by five defence teams and she is going to give evidence, probably by closed circuit, probably for two days, and she is going to be asked by a competent lawyer whether she remembers things that she does not remember, and she will say she does not know, and a juror will write that down.

“Pleas mean she never goes near that building.