'Playing the sympathy card': grandmother accused of crying on cue in court

By Stephanie Gardiner
Updated January 25 2013 - 1:08pm, first published 12:25pm
Veletta Heron ... "She tried to play the sympathy card, she did the whole act of crying on cue."
Veletta Heron ... "She tried to play the sympathy card, she did the whole act of crying on cue."

A Sydney grandmother who said her firefighter grandson admitted to lighting fires was "playing the sympathy card" and cried on cue, to hide her "oppressive" behaviour towards him, a court has been told.

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