She could not see the boat because it was pitch black. She felt a lot better for having gone there. She then drove home. In that interview, Neill-Fraser was told that the red jacket police had shown her on the morning of 27 January was in fact hers because it contained her DNA. She conceded it was hers and said she had no idea how it came to be on the fence in Margaret Street. On 20 August 2009, Neill-Fraser returned home from a consultation with her family lawyer, to find police at her home, waiting to arrest her. She was then arrested and was charged with murder. On 15 March 2010, when legal proceedings were underway, the DNA profile of the then-unknown female from the bow of the yacht on the starboard walkway was matched with the DNA profile of one Meaghan Vass. A sample had been taken from her by police for reasons unconnected with this case. The trial commenced in August 2010 before then-Justice Alan Blow in the Criminal Court of the Supreme Court of Tasmania. Tim Ellis SC and Jack Shapiro appeared for the State of Tasmania. David Gunson SC and Louise Brooks appeared for Neill-Fraser. During the trial it emerged that police had bugged Neill-Fraser’s home and obtained some 768 hours’ worth of recordings, none of which was played to the court. Detective Shane Sinnitt admitted that police had not followed up the possibility that a grey dinghy, different from the blue and white dinghy owned by Neill-Fraser, had been seen heading in the direction of Four Winds on 26 January 2009. During the course of the trial, it was established that Meaghan Vass had been 15 years old on 26 January 2009. She had been homeless since she was 13. Having discovered the matching profiles, police first spoke to her with a view to interviewing her, to see if she had any connection with the death of the deceased. She declined to be interviewed. In cross-examination her explanation was that she felt intimidated and that she had "just never dealt with something this large before". As it was not possible to provide a statement of the evidence she would give before the jury, what has come to be known as a "Basha" inquiry was conducted in the absence of the jury. Its purpose was to determine what she was likely to say or not say in evidence before the jury. In her evidence-in-chief in the course of the "Basha" inquiry, she said she was living in Hobart in early 2009, that she had never been aboard "Four Winds", she did not remember if she went to the area of Constitution Dock in January and February 2009, and she did not remember going to an area of Goodwood near Negara Crescent where there was an industrial estate and some yachts in January 2009.