The Heart-Wrenching Phone Call: A Soldier’s Tale of Shock and Betrayal

Bit of tune and thrown in the court. Little bit of a recess, off, we’ll go back in. And then the judge’s assistant mutual something in Tamil. And our embassy was straight on the phone in New Delhi. And I tell you what, I’ve never seen a man. I’ve never seen anyone get scared in my entire life. Like I saw my lawyer walking towards us. I’ve been in Afghanistan, I’ve been in Iraq, I’ve seen what war does to people. But I’ve never seen a man so scared to tell the people that he’s representing what’s about to happen. And I remember saying, well, come on, let us. Let us know. He says, five years, and you just stand there and all you can do is process. What the am I meant to tell my family? You know, I should be going home. I rang my sister lisa. I said, lisa, get the ma’am’s now. She says, watch him. I said, now. I hung up on her and I rang me dad. I said, dad, i’m not coming home. And the first thing he said was, he goes, the weapons are fine. I went, dad, I know a dad, I know the weapons are fine. My sister put us on loudspeaker, and if you’ve ever heard a. A wounded animal, that’s what my mom sounded like. Telling my mom I’m not coming home and I’m going to prison for 5 years was like putting a stake through a heart. The screams down the phone and I’ve have to just listen to that.