Page 41 of Murder in the Family

LAILA FURNESS

(to Mitchell)

So why did Lascelles focus so much on that, aside from the obvious racial bias?

MITCHELL CLARKE

Search me.

ALAN CANNING

Which I assume they did? Search you?

MITCHELL CLARKE

(shifting a little uneasily)

Yes, they did.

ALAN CANNING

And your car?

MITCHELL CLARKE

Look, it was just a bit of weed. For personal use.

HUGO FRASER

Sothat’swhy they latched onto the drugs angle.

MITCHELL CLARKE

Right. They seemed to think I’d gone there to meet Ryder – sell him some gear – that there’d been a row and things had turned nasty—

LAILA FURNESS

You didn’t have an alibi for earlier in the evening?

MITCHELL CLARKE

Unfortunately not.

LAILA FURNESS

But if there had been a ‘row’ and he’d ended up dead, why on earth would you have hung round afterwards? It makes no sense.

JJ NORTON

And why was the marijuana in the car and not on you, if you were planning to sell it to him?

MITCHELL CLARKE

There you have it. In a nutshell.

ALAN CANNING

Just for the record, so we’re all clear. You didn’t know Luke Ryder?

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