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Mr HARTCHER: My question is directed to the Premier. What action will he take to ensure that the court hearing the appeal of the Director of Public Prosecutions against the lenient sentences given to the three gang-rapists recently will have before it the victims' complete statements rather than the abbreviated versions given to the sentencing judge, which the victims and their parents say are incomplete and misleading?
Mr CARR: Speaking as a non-lawyer, I will do anything I can to ensure that those complete statements are put in the hands of the court. If I have to go to the court myself and seek leave to hand them up to the bench, I will do so.