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The Prosecutor Signed It
Leeds, 2026. The Crown Prosecution Service prosecutes on behalf of the public.
- ~149 min (estimated)
- 32804 words
- 62 scenes
- 9 branch points
- 4 endings
33 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
A Senior Crown Prosecutor who signed a plea schedule that took nine years off the sentence of a man she is not related to, on a count of gross negligence manslaughter she withdrew in a fortnight with no hearing and no record of a hearing, is living eleven minutes' walk from the resettlement hotel he is in. Helena Marchant is 43. She has been a prosecutor for nineteen years, eight of them at Senior level, and she is good at it in the specific way that people are good at jobs they cannot put down. On the twelfth of March 2026 she signed a schedule for His Honour Judge at Leeds Crown Court. The Crown's own calculator, run on the full count sheet, had produced a maximum of 11 years 4 months. Her schedule said 6 years 3 months, suspended, with a requirement that he serve it at a specified address. Nobody in that courtroom was asked to explain the difference, because there is no part of the pr
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- Death by smoke inhalation in an institutional fire, described and not depicted
- Withdrawal of a manslaughter count without a hearing
- A care home operated for profit with residents who died in it
- Fraud worth £412,000 and a perverting-the-course-of-justice count
- A judicial review and a public hearing in open court
- A criminal case certificate surrendered and a career ended
- A marriage under sustained strain
- A man with an ankle tag, a curfew and no accommodation on a fixed date
- Two endings in which a named person is homeless on a stated morning
- Written consensual adult intimacy between a prosecutor and the man she sentenced
Cast
- H Helena Marchant Senior Crown Prosecutor, CPS Leeds, and the prosecutor of record on the Marrable prosecution no portrait yet
- T Toby Marrable Former registered nurse and registered manager of Hollins Court; the defendant, on a suspended sentence and a residence requirement no portrait yet
- N Naomi Olumide Senior Crown Prosecutor, CPS Legal Directorate, and the person who decides whether to reopen no portrait yet
- R Rhoda Canning Daughter of Eileen Brackley and the complainant in the abuse-of-process application no portrait yet
- M Marcus Marnock Detective Superintendent, West Yorkshire Police, and the author of the abuse-of-process referral no portrait yet
- S Saskia Havelock Duty manager, Meridian House, and the person who writes the discharge note no portrait yet
- P Priya Raval Crown prosecutor, four years and three months in post, on the same floor no portrait yet
- G Gavin Marchant Distribution-centre driver and Helena's husband no portrait yet