Page 241 of Murder in the Family

AUDIO continues.

MAURA HOWARD

There was something else – don’t jump down my throat, OK, but Nick – the producer – he wanted me to ask you something—

AMELIE HOWARD

That wanker – if it hadn’t been for him none of this would have happened. Guy was such a twat, agreeing to do that shit—

MAURA HOWARD

Look, I know, but Nick was really bloody insistent, so I said I’d ask, OK?

You can tell him to fuck off if you like but he wanted to know why you didn’t have any scratches or anything. That night, I mean. If you’d had a fight with Luke.

AMELIE HOWARD

Right. Yeah, tell him to fuck off.

MAURA HOWARD

Come on, Am—

a silence

The hair in the zip was definitely yours – they proved that – the lawyer told me—

AMELIE HOWARD

Yeah, but that didn’t happen then, did it. Look, I tried the bloody thing on, OK? The jacket. A couple of days before. I always liked it and I tried it on. That must have been when it happened. End of.

MAURA HOWARD

So you didn’t have a fight with him that night?

AMELIE HOWARD

(lowering her voice)

Come on – you know I didn’t.

MAURA HOWARD

No, I don’t – I don’t know anything—

AMELIE HOWARD

Oh for fuck’s sake—

MAURA HOWARD

(quietly)

Was he abusing you? You can tell me – if he was—

AMELIE HOWARD

Of course he wasn’t.

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