THE Singleton mother of deceased toddler Jordan Thompson had a vested interest in deflecting interest away from herself, the jury in the manslaughter trial of her then boyfriend, Cecil Patrick Kennedy, was told.
In summing up, defence barrister Linda McSpeddin said that in April of 2005, weeks after the 21-month-old's death on March 19, his mother Bernice Swales was taking notes of conversations with Kennedy and providing them to police, in collaboration with them.
