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The Day After The Verdict
Corwen Lyle is thirty-nine.
- ~346 min (estimated)
- 76138 words
- 101 scenes
- 8 branch points
- 5 endings
44 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
He runs a two-vehicle recycling and aggregates haulage business out of a yard on Kestrel Lane in Glossop, Derbyshire, and until April 2026 he has never been convicted of anything. Rhona Lyle is forty-one. She has worked in the office of that business since 2018, doing payroll, weighbridge tickets and the fuel card, and for eight years she has shared 14 Kestrel Lane with him without once putting her name on the freehold. On Tuesday 7 April 2026 she gives evidence at Glossop Crown Court, in court four, with the blinds down, and at fourteen minutes past two he is convicted of perverting the course of justice and sentenced to fourteen months, suspended for two years, with a hundred and eighty hours of unpaid work. The sentence is his. The evidence is hers, and it is true, and it is not going to soften. The book opens on the second morning, Wednesday 8 April 2026 at ten to seven, in the kitch
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- A conviction and a prison sentence, and the fact of one that cannot be overturned
- A woman under examination about her own liability, deferred to a date in December
- A man injured in an industrial incident and a coroner's inquest into his injuries
- An insurance claim and civil proceedings in a public court
- A mother asking her son for money
- A town blaming a woman for telling the truth
- A household whose freehold is in one person's sole name after eight years
- A hard moral choice where no option is clean and every branch closes a door
- Sexual content between adults, with consent stated aloud, in a house that is one of the document locations
Cast
- C Corwen Lyle The protagonist. Sole director of a two-vehicle haulage and aggregates business, convicted on Tuesday 7 April 2026 of two counts of perverting the course of justice, sentenced to fourteen months suspe no portrait yet
- R Rhona Lyle The witness. Kept the weighbridge tickets, the fuel card and the payroll of a haulage firm for five years, worked out on 9 April 2024 that twenty-six thousand four hundred pounds had gone out in cash, no portrait yet
- M Marianne Vickery A retired dinner supervisor who has done the crossing patrol at Hawthorn Road Primary since 2005, and the first person to say any of it out loud, at a school gate, on a Monday, in front of four people no portrait yet
- D Devin Agyeman A Crown Prosecution Service caseworker in Glossop who took Rhona Lyle's first witness statement in April 2024, was stood down from the trial for that reason, was in court on 7 April 2026 when the verd no portrait yet
- B Bryn Mair A solicitor with one fee-earner, a landlord on a payment plan and a ring binder with his name on the spine from a firm that no longer exists; he did the trial, drafted the plea, drafted the Tomlin ord no portrait yet