After her son died of a brain injury, Rose-Anne Van De Wiele went on a lengthy, persistent campaign to find out what happened.

But on Wednesday, during her eighth and final day of testimony and her seventh day in cross-examination by the defence at the Superior Court manslaughter trial of Meggin Van Hoof, it was suggested she was trying to deflect responsibility from herself.

“This process is not about the truth and finding out what happened,” defence lawyer Geoff Snow said. “For you, this is a process of taking blame off you, having the public think this wasn’t you. . . . This is a process of taking blame off you and putting it on Meggin Van Hoof.”

“No, for me, this whole process was not about Meggin,” Van De Wiele said. “I did everything I did because I love my son. That’s why I did e

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