‘It’s as you suspected, sir,’ Marcus Harding said, consulting his pocketbook.
,‘Marjorie Forrester did make up the whole story to get back at Norman Craig. She claimed he slapped her face and punched her in the stomach whilst they were arguing outside the ‘Hammer and Tongs’ on Oakbrook Road. Quite an appropriate location really, because according to witnesses, the two going at it like hammer and tongs but nobody saw any punches thrown, lots of yelling and swearing, but no fisticuffs.
Seems that Marjorie saw Norman with Helen Dudley, and even though Norman and Marjorie broke up a couple of weeks ago, she was still angry with him for leaving her. Presumably to be with his new woman.
As you instructed, sir, I did read her the riot act, making sure she understood the seriousness of a false
