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As your counsel will tell you,
Vole, you will very shortly
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have an opportunity of
speaking in your own defence.
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Leonard Vole returned, you say,
at ten minutes past ten.
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- And what happened next?
- He was breathing hard, very excited.
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He threw off his coat
and examined the sleeves.
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Then he told me to wash the cuffs.
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- They had blood on them.
- Go on.
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- I said "What have you done?"
- What did the prisoner say?
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He said "I've killed her. "
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Christine! Why are you lying?
Why are you saying these things?
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- What an awful woman.
- She's evil. I've known it all along.
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If the defence so desires,
I will adjourn for a short time
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so that the prisoner
may gain control of himself.
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My lord is most gracious,
but pray let the witness continue.
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We are all of us caught up
in the suspense of this horror fiction.
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To have to hear it in instalments
might prove unendurable.
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- Proceed, Mr Myers.
- Mrs Helm,
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when the prisoner said "I have killed her",
did you know to whom he referred?
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It was that woman
he had been seeing so often.
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When questioned by the police, you told
them that the prisoner returned at 9.25.
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Yes. Because Leonard
asked me to say that.
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But you've changed your story now. Why?
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I cannot go on lying to save him.
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I said to the police what he wanted
because I'm grateful to him.
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He married me
and brought me to this country.
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What he has asked me to do I have
because I was grateful.
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It was not because
he was your husband and you loved him?
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I never loved him.
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It was gratitude, then,
that prompted you to give him an alibi
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- in your statement to the police?
- That is it. Exactly.
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- But now you think it was wrong to do so.
- Because it is murder.
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That woman, she was a harmless old fool,
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and he makes of me
an accomplice to the murder.
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I cannot come into court and swear that
he was with me at the time it was done.
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I cannot do it! I cannot do it!
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Then this is the truth?
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That Leonard Vole returned
that night at ten minutes past ten,