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she was asking to be murdered wasn't she

once s had his hands on all of her cash

she was just a

liability it was a lot of money in 1910

certainly no lawyer would have revised

such a show of

trust you must keep an open mind if

you're speaking for the defense I have

to believe he didn't do it no no no no

what you

believe isn't that

issue your job is to convince the jury

that the crown has failed to make its

case against the accused Beyond

Reasonable Doubt the chemist claimed it

was San's daughter who B the Arsenic but

she denies it this evidence wasn't

really tested do you think you could

have saved him from hanging could have

done better than Edward Marshall Hall

one of the truly great

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Advocates

well I I have been a lawyer

you had had the

opportunities but you will have them

ventia you will have them one day you're

going to be a great Advocate

too murderers do not usually give their

victims notice this is one death which

comes mercifully unburdened with the

knowledge of the terror to come when

visha Aldridge CCE prepared herself to

enter the number one Court of the old

belly in the case of Regina versus Ash

she wasn't know that she had only 10

days 4

hours and 50 minutes

left to live

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the defendant claims that at the time of

his aunt's brutal murder he was several

miles away but do you have any doubt as

to who it was leaving number 397 Westway

at a quarter 11 on that night no I have

no doubt at

all do you see that man in

court

yes could you point him out to us

please Gary Ash the defendant thank you

Mrs Scully

Miss

Aldrich she has to discredit Mrs

Scully I'm sorry we have to go through

everything again Mrs Scully but your

evidence has been so clear I'm sure it

won't take us

long Mrs O'Keefe hadn't lived in West

way for very long had she two years a

time when the neighborhood was changing

a great deal houses being demolished old

friend moving different kinds of people

moving in it was a decent Street once a

decent Community you said that Mrs

o'keef had a lot of visitors there was a

lot of noise lot of coming and going she

wasn't the sort of neighbor I was used

to not the sort of person with whom you

could form any kind of friendship no or

her nephew no but that's got nothing to

do with seeing him no of course not Mrs

Scully it just helps us all if we can

get a very clear picture of Mrs

o do you think he killed his AR the real

question is whether Venicia can create

enough doubt to stop the jewry

convicting now how did you feel about

Mrs O'Keefe's friends friends is one

word what word would you use they were

all

men clients would be near of the

truth a lot of men came in and out of

Mrs O'Keefe's house constantly observed

by you both day and night but on the

night in question you saw no one you say

the only person you saw leaving number

397 was Gary

Ash that's right and he left by the

front door now was that usual no the

back door was because of his motorbike

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the spectacles you're wearing today Mrs

Scully are they new yes I got them on my

birthday which was November the

23rd are you sure about that date that's

uh five weeks after the death of Mrs

o'keef yes

can you tell the court why you changed

your glasses I'd been meaning to for

some time I was having trouble with my

old ones what sort of trouble it was the

television really it was getting so that

I couldn't see the faces your television

set is how far away from you when you're

sitting in your living room 8 ft 10 ft I

don't know let me see if I can help uh

my Lord may I approach the

witness about this distance a bit

less here that's about

it Mrs Scully you have just told the

court that you couldn't comfortably see

your television set at 10 ft yet you

have sworn on oath that you recognized

my client at 20 ft on a dark night

now can you be sure that it wasn't some

other young man leaving the house one of

Mrs O'Keefe's many friends who came and

went by the front door not the back

someone the same age the same height can

you be absolutely

sure I thought it was Gary you thought

it was Gary because he lived there you

would expect it to be him turning point

but could you really see him plainly can

you be sure Mrs

Scully I suppose it could have been some

someone else someone like him but I

thought at the time it was Gary Ash you

thought at the time it was garash but it

could have been someone like

him precisely it was a natural mistake

Mrs Scully but I suggest to you that it

was a

mistake thank you

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what

morning Valerie morning Mr or thank you

Simon morning are you one of the thieves

who has been poining my mineral water no

on Earth Desmond Valerie if anyone so

much as touches that water please point

out that it is not the property of

Chambers but only of the member who has

purchased it yes Mr or thank

you nothing safe in a den of barristers

Desmond absolutely the Pendle bre is in

your office Mr alri they would like an

answer by this afternoon if possible the

fear is Right Harry all things are

possible yuck you know what he's put in

here Mr Norton

blood yeah it's all right Miss

Coldwell it his

own Mr Ash is it true that on the night

of her death you argued with your aunt

in the Duke of

Clarence

yes can you tell us what the argument

was

about she wanted me to take photographs

of her with

men having

sex I've done it

before but I hied

it I said I weren't going to do it again

she was very

drunk and I walked

out I needed time to think about what I

was going to

do I knew I had to move

on you wanted to leave your

aunt what part of me wanted that part of

me wanted to

stay I've been in and out of homes all

my life like local Authority care or a

dozen foster

parents I didn't want to do the things

my aunt made me

do I didn't want her to live the way

that she

did but I think she needed

me and it was

home and it's not an easy thing to give

up

after you left the Duke of

Clarence you only returned home several

hours

later and no one saw you during that

time well I was just walking shephers

Bush South kin I mean there's people

everywhere but they don't see

you what happened after you arrived home

I could

see I could say straight away that she

was

dead and what did you do I called the

police and waited for him to

come

Gary did you love your

aunt I was very fond of

her I was sorry for

her I don't know if I know what people

mean by

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love ladies and

gentlemen remembering those obscene

photographs you may wonder why why

garash didn't leave his aunt

before he has told you

why Mrs O'Keefe was his only living

relation the home she

provided was the only home he had ever

known I don't think we can underestimate

what that

means on the night of the murder he

walked the streets

unseeing and

unseen he returned home to the horror of

that blood splattered sitting room no

forensic evidence links him with the

crime no blood on his clothes no blood

on his person no fingerprints on the

knife no one saw him enter or leave Mrs

O'Keefe's house at the time of her death

now Mrs Scully thought she saw someone

like Gary at a time when she couldn't

see the faces on her television

screen one of Mrs O'Keefe's many clients

could have called that night and one did

a man who brutally murdered

her that was her

tragedy it is also the tragedy of the

young man sitting in this court

today if you believe Beyond reasonable

doubt that my client murdered his aunt

then you must return a verdict of guilty

but if after considering all the

evidence you have a reasonable doubt

then it is your duty to return a verdict

of not

guilty thank you ladies and

gentlemen that's what I shall miss most

the lighting of the

lamps I used to like watching for The

Lamplighter then when it

ended it seemed as if a whole era had

gone forever well this place is going to

miss

you I'm sure that Chambers takes it for

granted that I'll succeed

you visha is

interested

Venicia it's the first I've heard of

it she's never shown the slightest

desire to become head of Chambers when

you when you were ill all she had to say

was she'd rather leave the tedious

chores to other people me I think she

has Ambitions to become a judge

succeeding me will be important well

venisha is not a

conciliator her only contribution to

Chambers meetings is to disagree with

everyone else is a conciliator of what

we

need she is probably our most

distinguished lawyer well I think that's

arguable Hubert but she won't make a

good head of

Chambers anyway do we really want a

criminal lawyer it's a very snobbish

view Justice rights Liberty all things

we are having to think a lot harder

about it's the heart of what what fisha

does I thought winning at any price was

this can wait till the

meeting well I take it that I am still

your choice to

succeed if it's the will of Chambers yes

of

course but if Venicia wants it I don't

see how she can reasonably be

rejected it goes by

seniority Venicia is a senior that is

not good enough Hubert by God that is

not good enough you you have always led

me to believe that I had your support

and I have covered up enough of your

recent mistakes to earn

it if

fenicia is serious about this then I

suggest that you do something to change

her

mind it's nearly a month since I last

saw

you so you're going to win this one oh I

don't know but we've got a good chance

which is a very long way from where we

were when the tri started

oh Mark I missed you God I've been so

tied up with the

commons and now I've got this new

appointment yes yes you told me

remember oh

yes well I'm going to have to give all

this up so you should have some free

time what yes the J is coming

back well good luck

venisha thank you sir

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ladies and gentlemen of the jury please

answer the following question yes or no

have you reached a verdict on which you

are all agreed yes and how do you find

the defendant guilty or not guilty not

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guilty well

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done they are

you know your way out Mr

Ash made quite a thing I know where I

come from get in trouble again I'm sure

there' be no reason for our paths to

cross good

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afternoon she had to put Ash in the

witness box it was a risk but uh he

performed well

yes the prosecution really should have

asked Ash how he knew about those

glasses

yes I use your spot for a cup of

tea I can't denight there's something I

must do oh

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Hello darling how are you bye

thanks all right sis know be long you

seen a paper no I hav another the news

on either he's been

acquitted he said he had a clever lawyer

I knew Gary Ash wasn't a killer no

matter what else he'd done you still to

believe in him after everything he did

to you I think he killed that poor woman

and so do you no the jury believed him

you know him better than any

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jury Chang good night

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Octavia couldn't you have asked the

driver to help you with that I'm capable

of doing it myself just lift it up you

really could have given me more than 24

hours notice I'm

18 I told you I wasn't staying at school

any longer than I had to it's not my

fault you don't

listen Mrs Buckley knew she'd have to

move upstairs after you came home but

she wasn't amused when I told her she

had to do it last

night that's what you pay her for isn't

it mommy to do what you tell

her don't just

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I think that's everything Miss Aldridge

I do appreciate this Mrs Buckley look if

there's anything you need in the Attic

flat oh no it's very

comfortable you

see the only person who's in aate about

your daughter coming com home is

you you will treat Mrs Buckley with

courtesy

Octavia I've accepted your decision to

leave the convent but I do not expect my

house to be

disrupted all

right

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for for

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excuse me look I'm sorry L right but

I've just come off my bike I like me

arms in bits I don't suppose I could run

it under a check could

I so I'm not being funny but if I leave

it out here it's going to end up being

frown in the back of the dard you know

what I mean tell you what I'll do I'll

see you later when I come pick up yeah

what

tonight hey hey everyone that I was just

thinking it must be saying I can do say

a't you oh no don't be silly well I mean

why don't you even let me buy a drink

you

know good

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smar I don't even know your name

Gary I'm Octavia

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you were lucky Mr cartright different

day a different judge we might not have

had the same decision oh we make our own

luck you made mine today and showed

yourself a champion of Liberty very good

for the image yes well I was right about

a point of

law sometimes the principal is more

important than the individual

concerned well I owe you more than money

there's still a matter

of the last time you were in court

defended by Simon Costello now from what

you already said you know my acquittal

had nothing to do with his efforts

exactly rumor has it that several jurors

were suborned no one can prove they were

bought off and I'm not about to admit it

I'm not interested in what you did or

didn't do Mr cartride I'm only

interested in how much Mr costell

knew well I'm not saying anything

happened I'm sure costell won't either

because he was paid a very Hefty bonus

to keep his mouth shut

he knew during the trial oh he

knew but I've never had this

conversation Miss Aldridge of course not

good afternoon Mr

C good afternoon Miss

I went there

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congratulations I should have thought

you'd had enough of the Old Bailey to

last a

lifetime I take it you to know each

other yes we're in

love well congratulations hardly seem in

order Octavia given your choice of

lover I've always assumed that if

intelligence wasn't your strong point

you at least had a sense of

self-preservation oh I think Octavia is

old enough to make her own decisions

than

you obviously we need to talk you you'd

better come with me come

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on want to see it tonight just come on

yes come as soon as you can I'll cook

some supper

presumably you weren't introduced to him

at a Convent

disco

no he crashed his bike at the end of the

road I helped him that's all when was

this week ago you can't seriously

believe this man loves you yes he does

love

me but just because you don't doesn't

mean no one else ever

will you do know who he

is

yes who's told

me I know his mother checked him out

when he was only seven and that was only

the I am familiar with his life his

mother told the local Authority she was

frightened of him a seven-year-old boy

that's why he was in care every adult he

ever met let him down and I bet they all

came up with excuses for

it I've seen enough of that to know what

it means oh so that's what we've got in

common you're another abandoned child

it's that because your father left us or

because of the extremely privileged

upbringing that I forced upon

you now I see why we've got so few

Family

Photos you should have framed some of

your bank statements

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momam I think Gary as's immediate par

should concern you more than his

childhood a week ago he was in court

accused of murdering his aunt but he

didn't do it oh look she was a horrible

woman who was is having men back to her

house it was one of them that killed her

Gary wasn't even near the place at the

time I am familiar with the defense

Octavia look he didn't do it you know

he's innocent you told the court he was

innocent my job is to test the

prosecution case I have explained all

this to you before there was Reasonable

Doubt about Gary Ash and he was

acquitted no he was acquitted because he

didn't do it he can put all of that

behind him now is there any reason why

he shouldn't

oh Gary asha's relationship with his

aunt wasn't a normal one he was almost

certainly one of her lovers now that's

not true are you having

sex what I don't think that's any of

your business

actually no no we're not not yet Gary

thinks we ought to wait it's been so

quick since everything's oh that's very

clever oh God he can't win can he it's

wrong if we are making love and it's

wrong of we not do you think it was a

coincidence that he crashed his bicycle

in pel in place a few days after the

trial he didn't know who I was Mom

Octavia can you be so

stupid when Ash was 15 he was at a

special school outside Norwich there was

a social worker Michael Gates he really

cared for ash believed he could help him

perhaps loved him Ash tried to blackmail

him with an accusation of sexual

assault I don't believe any of this it's

not perhaps the worst thing he has ever

done but it explains why I think of him

as evil if he's so evil why the hell did

you defend

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him oh well done Miss

oldridge I want to talk to you right

I'll drop in later Brian

cartright just been in court with him oh

I gather he was quitted yes as he was

when you defended him do I need to say

more

here come along Valerie I want those

letters out

today well cartright's lying why should

he probably to impress you with how

clever he is look he didn't tell me

about suborning jurors

you know if he had I would have done

something about it with a bonus he was

offering you I don't have to listen to

this I don't know how much of what

cartrite told me is the truth but enough

he won't admit it publicly so I can't

have you thrown out of the profession

however when I become head of Chambers

you will be looking for new

accommodation and I will make sure you

never take silk

Simon you won't become a QC as long as I

live

hello Mark I need to talk can you come

over to pel place for half an

hour if it could I shouldn't have

run oh please doesn't matter what she

says she can't do

anything you did say she always gets her

own way not with

me not anymore now I've got

you well I I just found you I thought I

lose you

what you're not going to lose

me you heard this this is wicked

man oh that supposed to be doing

it clearly she's doing it to annoy

me she looked almost triumphant when

they saw them but I'm sure that once

she's made her Point she get bored with

him but what's he up to oh I don't

know it has to have something to do with

money hasn't it well it's easy if it has

pay him off oh darling it's not the sort

of thing I do every day no I I have to

think about it I mean the man is no

fool I don't know how to handle so far

I've handled it very very

badly look Venicia I've got to get back

to the

commons I'm sure you can handle your

daughter's boyfriend problem without my

help thank you Mark thank you very much

the real reason I

came well we did have to

talk I'm sure you've been thinking along

the same lines what

lines I don't think we should see each

other

again it's too difficult for both of

us too dangerous

perhaps well it's not as though we've

seen a great deal of each other in

recent weeks anyway oh that's very neat

Mark you are happy enough to deceive

your wife before but a ministerial

position clearly concentrates the mind

so I'm the price for dutiful and more to

the point silent wife neither of us made

any promises was never about that

anyway Lucy doesn't know about our

Affair of course she knows she knows you

better than you know yourself if she's

kept quiet until now it was because it

was in her interest to do so until she

had the right lever don't be ridiculous

it profits a man nothing to give his

soul for the whole world but for number

two to the minister of sport

oh Lucy's pregnant visha

what a Charming

lever I didn't think she could have

children well it just happened after 8

years all done by prayer and lighting

candles or was it the Immaculate

Conception did she know I aborted your

child 12 months ago of course

not I saw her on the news a couple of

weeks ago on some pro-life visual

pity if she found

out he wouldn't do that to her no no no

no not to her maybe to you oh come on

you were horrified when you found out

you were pregnant you never wanted

another child you didn't care very much

for the one you've got

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did you get the straford papers from a

solicitor well they should be over here

by 10:00 I said I wanted them on my desk

when I got in this

morning yes well um I'll give them a

ring try and speed things up the concept

of speed in these Chambers hasn't

changed since the 19th century you

really are an anachronism Harry

she'll listen to you I see no earthly

reason why she should Venicia does not

listen to

anybody haven't told Lois yet much as I

love my niece I can't fight all your

battles for you venisha means what she

says you are a competent lawyer not a

clever one now my advice to you is don't

get out of your depth again

oh oh and Simon start looking for new

Chambers visha always means what she

says it's cartright's word against yours

the man's a show off that's all he may

sound off to visha but he won't stand up

and say he was involved in bribing

jurus stuff C right it's what venisha

Aldridge can do that matters can she

really stop you becoming

QC yep we need the money that's going to

bring in we've been living off the

promise of it for

years then you'd better get your uncle

bloody Desmond off his high horse and on

to our

side oh

God his best advice was to look for new

Chambers I'll talk to

him but it's really down to you Simon

you have to stop visha alridge and

quickly

I'm going to offer Ash several

thousands well I'm prepared to go to 10

if necessary well that's a lot of money

and if that's what he's after he'll be

back for

more if he takes the money and goes

Octavia will know why he's dumped her

even she isn't stupid enough to forget

that that's why I need a witness I

approach Ash offer him the money then

arranged to give it to him in the

presence of someone else someone who

could tell Octavia what he

says well she won't believe me uh are

you asking

me well is that so

unreasonable well surely there's um

someone in the family your um an old

friend I tried an old friend last night

are you telling me you won't help me

drale we are both lawyers venisha these

are very murky

Waters don't imagine you're going to

become the next head of Chambers if

that's why you think your reputation

needs protecting that is a matter for

the whole Chambers and the whole

Chambers knows you for the weak and

indecisive man you are

yes I'm Sorry Miss Al but I can't count

with Octavia turning my kitchen upside

down she's got her own flat I'm not

turning anything upside down shut up Mrs

Buckley I will sort this out in the

morning I am working and I cannot be

interrupted by a domestic

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argument this place has stagnated for

long enough if under you it would simply

rot

away however much you cover the position

there is nothing you can do to stop me

from becoming head of

Chambers I can do a great deal more than

you think

Venicia and I shall

this old richd

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what's the matter Mr

Norton uh Mr lant may still be at home

would you see if you can get him

morning Mr lton yes I've got Mr Norton

for

you I'm glad I caught you sir

Something's

Happened something

terrible yes Harry

absolutely do nothing let no one in the

room I'll call the police myself

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I wish to speak with Commander Adam

dougl this is Hubert singen

lton yes I'm afraid it's much more than

urgent

he

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look could believe she was a woman of

great dignity she wouldn't

want what I mean is the Press Chambers

or else yes I know I'm aware of the

attention the Press gave her in life and

I'm sure it won't be any different in

Death what the hell's going on Hubert is

this all true

this is Commander delich Desmond

B oh I was going to make a bad joke

about my blood I'm glad I

didn't your blood yes yes it's for a

minor operation I always like using my

own blood it was kept in the

refrigerator somebody took it I was

going to suggest that if you needed

something to

investigate who else knew the blood was

there a number of people um uh Mr

Norton our chief clerk Valerie the

secretary uh Mrs Carpenter she's one of

the cleaners I didn't like the

refrigerator cleaned while the blood was

there I take it that you are going to

treat this as a suspicious death Mr

alrick I should be treating this as

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murder the blood certain isn't hers

either it was poured over the wig within

the last 3 hours or it contains an

anticoagulant yes well we can be fairly

sure where it comes from

indeed you have the better of me there

Commander it'll need

mates

ah uh R go well

developed probably died about 8:00 last

night no obvious wound to the head but

uh imagine you've already spotted

this and the WID long thin RAV like both

sides

sharp at least 4 in long he was either

very lucky or very skilled a Thrust

straight to the

heart uh I'll confirm it on the table

but uh death must have been

instantaneous

C

closed

now me and aune did it I mean I worked

out the pattern but it was like oh

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idea it's

crazy but it's

wonderful it goes all about the landing

as well I mean like I was going to do

the scening but I don't know I just

never got with me

that was her

place everything happened in

there and you had to photograph it

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yeah is that why she was

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murdered come on there's something else

I want to show

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you you took it yeah before the police

came I always took photos of her uny

van she knew what a good photographer I

was so what she what have

wanted if you all your mates get over

that frence again the next time I'll cut

do you understand

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s

kids what are they like I made just The

Barbarians today

night God you look

terrified you okay

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who did you think it

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was the

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police I tore up the

picture I flushed her down the

Lop I was afraid they find out I'm sorry

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G you don't need to test

me look if people are going to let you

down it's just nice to

know I'm not going to let you down

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now we can go back

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h