He only attended trial, though, because he was brought in a van. From prison. Where he was a serving prisoner. Because, two weeks after being granted bail, liberated from the moderating influence of the departed Jade, Rio got high on a cocktail of ecstasy, crack and vodka. He took a kitchen knife to the local pub, and plunged it thirty times into the chest, throat and back of a random punter. He was, by the time of his adjourned rape trial, serving life for murder. As Matthew said, every decision affecting liberty matters. Life-changing consequences follow.
