Phillip John Smiths legal battles with Corrections costing taxpayers almost $1 million
Rachel Brand QC, defending, told the judge that Smith had indicated to her on Tuesday that he wanted to change his plea and on Wednesday that he wanted the charges read to him again. He knocked over his third victim, Carol Jordan, with his car as she walked to work at a care home. He had befriended both women in The Rainbow pub in the Digbeth area of Birmingham, where he found casual work and operated as an unlicensed taxi driver for customers. "You should clearly have faced up like a man at the overwhelming nature of the Crown's case against you but you chose to put the victims' families through misery which you compounded by this trial." Watson said the purpose of the prison system was to improve public safety and one of the ways Corrections did that was by making sure prisoners were handled safely. Examinations of tyre impressions showed that marks on the inside of one of Rosemary Corcoran’s arms matched with some of the pattern elements of one of the tyres. Tyr