'Are you calling me delusional?': tense court exchanges as student in rape case on stand for eighth day
Blane McIlroy arrives at Belfast Crown Court yesterday. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Nicola Anderson
'I'm not going to argue with you over grammar. You're not putting words in my mouth," the young woman told the lawyer, very deliberately and with no small amount of heat.
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