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2009
30 June 2008Ben Coulter, a naive young student, has sex in a council flat with a pick-up. When he wakes up before dawn he sees that the girl has been murdered. He panics and makes a run for it but is eventually arrested. All the evidence points to him as a killer though seedy duty solicitor Stone is on his side.
1 July 2008Charged with the murder of the girl he slept with, Ben is remanded in custody to await his trial. He is a fragile boy in a very brutal world. Fortunately he is sharing a cell with kindly old-timer Hooch,who attempts to look out for him, but he is young and pretty and vulnerable and another recent remand, Milroy, exploits him in order to curry favour with the fearsome prison 'daddy', Freddie Graham.
2 July 2008In preparation for his trial Ben's case is given to a hot shot feminist barrister, Alison Slaughter, but the naive youngster is concerned that her only concern in getting him off the murder charge is to blacken the name of the victim in order to reduce the severity of the charge. He is unwilling to play along and she rejects his case.
3 July 2008Things look very bleak indeed for Ben as his Not Guilty trial proceeds and the prosecution lawyer tears him to shreds in the court. Trainee barrister Frances Kapoor now has his defence but she is letting her heart rule her head and will ultimately pay the price for it. Stone tries desperately to find a witness that will help the boy's cause.
4 July 2008DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU WANT TO KNOW THE OUTCOME. SPOILER! Things do not look good for Ben but help comes from an unexpected quarter. Harry Box, the dogged and decent policeman who arrested him, has always harboured some doubts as to his guilt. Now, playing back CCTV camera film of movement on the estate on the night of the murder, he is able to locate a drug dealer following the victim and pieces together the fact that the girl was killed for being a witness to another crime. Ben is released but it is too late for Hooch
5 October 2009Juliet Miller lives an outwardly comfortable life with her barrister husband Joe and thirteen-year-old daughter Ella. But Joe regularly subjects Juliet to sexual violence and one night she stabs him, calmly phoning the ambulance to say "He's hurt" and walking away. Police, led by DCI Faber, investigate and initially believe Ella to be the attacker until Juliet arrives at the hospital in hysterics and is arrested. Sensible DS Flo Sexton interviews her with supportive lawyer Jacqueline 'Jack' Woolf and she confesses. Jack, however, suspects that her husband has raped her.
6 October 2009Remanded in prison Juliet tells Jack that she was on anti-depressants but stopped them unbeknown to her controlling husband. She is pregnant. Ella is fostered with the Roses, parents of a school friend and social worker Norma Fredericks wonders if the placement should not be long-term,due to Juliet's 'violence'. Ella visits Juliet, to be told,"I did it for you" but rejects her mother. Joe dies, making the charge murder.
7 October 2009Juliet has a baby girl. Jack and colleague Alice tell her the outcome of the trial will determine whether she can keep her. Flo questions Ella with her Inspector husband Chris, whom Flo accuses of grooming Ella to be hostile to her mother. Joe's clerk Saul tells Faber Joe was a saint, but Mrs.Rose believes Juliet was dominated by him and recalls miscalled phone messages from her on the night of the stabbing. Then Juliet's cell-mate Angela kills herself.
8 October 2009With the trial a week away Alice tells Jack the defence case is weak. After a visit from Ella to see the new baby, Juliet finally admits to Jack about her husband's control and abuse and says she will tell the court, for Ella's sake.Jack also hopes to use Joe's possible involvement with a drug pusher, though Chris Sexton disproves this to his own satisfaction. His wife and Faber, however, are more sympathetic to Juliet and Mrs. Rose thinks Joe was too good to be true. The trial begins and Ella convinces the jury that she worked with her father only to help her mother, who was otherwise a danger to herself. Jack, however,gets her to admit that her statement differs from things she told other people and her evidence may be confused because she has an idealized view of Joe.
9 October 2009DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU WANT TO KNOW THE OUTCOME. SPOILER! In the cells Juliet criticizes Jack for questioning Ella but starts to open up about her controlled existence. Flo Sexton's honest evidence proves that her husband lied on oath and causes a rift between them. On the stand Juliet finally admits that she was suicidal, as her husband regularly sodomized her against her wishes and that she took the knife to bed with the intention of killing herself. However, the thought of her unborn baby caused "something to snap" and she turned the knife on Joe instead. The baby's father is Dr. Rose, with whom she had a one-night stand, hence her calls to his house. She is acquitted of murder but must serve two and a half years for manslaughter and the baby is taken from her, for the time being at least, by an unenthusiastic Norma.
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