Our thanks to Graham for this. An extract:

“Defending, Alexander Shanks, said she will be submitting a basis of plea that she was pressured and coerced into taking part and is naive and immature.

Mr O’Connell said without any evidence of coercion, this would not be accepted by the prosecution.”

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