Airsound-we are going to have to disagree on this.
For the record, I am not suggesting that the defence team 'invented' the issue of CI. It clearly is possible. In certain circumstances. My personal opinion is, however, that it would be extraordinarily unlucky and coincidental that it happened at such a critical moment in a flight, in a pilot who has shown no previous indication this may happen. Its just as well the boot was not on the other foot and the defence had to prove it did happen.
The AAIB report was unable to be used as evidence in the trial I am led to believe? In fact from the reporting I saw on the trial, it seems that the nuts and bolts of the whole mishap (in terms of the actualities of the flight profile) were merely skimmed over-which surprised me greatly.
As for AH saying he had 'blacked out'-well that could easily have been GLOC rather than CI. Again, its you bringing up the concept of 'liar'. I didn't.