stories she s told abut herself, such as, gee, she really didn t have that much control of the company and that a lot of the bad acts attributed to her were really done by her then partner and, indeed, her personal partner a mr sunny balwani, who himself will be on trial. taking that a step further, she put on evidence that she had been emotionally abused in a very, very deleterious relationship with mr balwani, so he had virtually taken her mental autonomy away and things she apparently said she had no control over she had essentially been brainwashed. and then, on some other matters she actually did a strange manoeuvre by sort of confessing to the jury, yes, i shouldn t have done that but i feel really bad about it , as if she is making a plea for sympathy and not for innocence. robert weisberg from stanford university. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: the cat and the canary islands we ll tell you about the feline survivors of a major volcanic eruption.