Chapter 17Although it had stopped raining, it was still very dull and overcast in Liverpool, and Irene Yarwood shuddered as the thought flashed through her mind it might be an omen. Dismissing such negative thoughts from her mind, she hurried inside the sombre grey building determined that she, and her team, would do everything in their power to defend Harry Thompson and restore his freedom.
Right on time, Judge Ewing settled into his seat and the case for the defence began with Harry Thompson, the accused, taking the stand.
Irene Yarwood had agonized over this moment throughout the trial because, apart from a series of outright denials, the defence had so little to go on. There were no witnesses to either crime. Thompson, her client, had no witnesses to support his alibi and there was n
