Three sisters, Nicole Meyer, Dassi Erlich and Elly Sapper, walk hand in hand into a Melbourne courtroom for the first day of the trial of Malka Leifer, their former school principal and abuser.
Nicole, who will give evidence first, is smiling but anxious. She’s spent days holed up in a serviced apartment near Melbourne’s county court with her sisters, poring over her witness statement. Even in the car on the way to court, she’s re-reading it.