“Well, detectives, I must say you do surprise me. I have a rather good memory for all my cases, but the Howard Blake case stood out as being one of the most open and shut affairs I can remember.”
“You remember it that well?” Drake asked.
“Yes, Sergeant, I do. The evidence against Mr Blake was overwhelmingly in favour of a guilty verdict, but the man insisted he was innocent, and of course, I had to abide by his wishes and proceed with a not guilty plea. I did the best I could for him, but the guilty verdict was virtually inevitable from the start.”
“I see,” Ross said, thoughtfully. “But was there a chance that any of your legal staff or secretaries etc, might have believed in his innocence and thought his conviction to be unsound?”
“Inspector Ross, you need to realise that I’m not tryi
