I sat through all six days - and you couldn't help but feel for Bryony Frost
You have scarcely been able to move for reaction and comment on the Robbie Dunne case since it concluded on Thursday, an entirely understandable state of affairs given not only the magnitude of the hearing but also the statements that came out in the aftermath.
Much of it has rather drifted away from the matter at hand – that Dunne subjected Bryony Frost to a seven-month campaign of malicious bullying that ended in a "promise" to do her serious physical harm – and on to issues such as weighing-room culture and the BHA's handling of the case.
Having sat through all six days of the hearing, I thought it might still be informative to expand on some of the things I saw, things that might not have been picked up directly from the coverage.
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