Chapter 31

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Outside the Justice Complex, State Media journalists jostled for position, trying to avoid the press of curious citizens gathering on the paved forecourt, as well as those fleeing Court 5. Someone in the public gallery must have alerted the undercover media, because a young woman lacking the usual press identification stood apart from the others, her voice betraying a combination of shock and indignation as she spoke to camera of the afternoon’s extraordinary revelations. One of the first to exit the building, Emma had secreted herself behind two burly workmen to prevent being hassled by reporters of any flavour, but she could still hear snippets of the young woman’s report. The name, Colin Theobald, was repeated frequently, each syllable enunciated perfectly, as the journalist recounted

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