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The Jury Is Out For The Night
Wrenmoor is a city of 126,000 in the invented county of Netherwold, and on the night of Wednesday 22 July 2026 a woman was killed in a terraced house four streets from the ring road with a fire iron taken off her own hearth.
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About
**Emmett Rooke**, 48, a self-employed heating engineer of twenty-two years, was arrested at his own front door at ten past one the following morning and has been on remand ever since. He is not a violent man and there is no history of it anywhere. He was in a different house at the time and has never been able to account for the forty minutes between a telephone call he made at 9. 48 and a call his wife made from a doorstep at 11. 41 the same night. **Nell Rooke**, 46, is the woman he married in 2004, and she is the Crown's only identifying witness. Paragraph fourteen of her witness statement contains one sentence: that the man who was standing in Marisol Kanter's kitchen at twenty past ten on the twenty-second of July was Emmett Rooke, and he was her husband, and she knew him as well as she knew her own hands. Everything else in the case is circumstantial. The boots, the tagged van seen
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- Murder trial and a stated killing
- Access to a household address by a neighbour on the night of a killing
- A concealment of evidence and perjury
- A conviction of the witness and a term of imprisonment
- A curfew, a tag and the threat of recall to custody
- An estrangement between married partners over a statement in a court
- Explicit sexual content between consenting adults, said out loud, with an agreed stop word
- Explicit language about a body
Cast
- E Emmett Rooke Heating and ventilation engineer of twenty-two years, self-employed, Gas Safe registration 213845-9, on bail with a curfew of eight o'clock and a fitted electronic tag no portrait yet
- N Nell Rooke Civil court clerk and then tribunal caseworker of eleven years at the First-tier Property Tribunal, suspended from her post on full pay from 6 August, and the Crown's only identifying witness no portrait yet
- M Marisol Kanter Deceased. A former registered care worker who ran an unregistered sitting service out of her front room and was killed in her own kitchen on the night of 22 July 2026 no portrait yet
- D Dermot Vane Defence solicitor of twenty-two years at Vane and Stow, 44 Ashworth Road, acting for Emmett Rooke from the first attendance on 23 July no portrait yet
- S Sunita Prasad Partner at Vane and Stow, who advises in writing against the firm acting for both defendants and says so in a kitchen in week four no portrait yet
- D DCI Rowan Teague Detective in Wrenmoor C, eighteen months in the role and eleven years on the force, the officer in the case no portrait yet
- H Hilary Fenne KC Prosecuting counsel, thirty-one years at the Bar, opening the case in nineteen minutes without naming the woman who was killed no portrait yet
- U Usha Patel Crown Prosecution Service solicitor, Wrenmoor, author of the plea offer of 14 August and of the unused material disclosure no portrait yet
- H His Honour Judge Roche Circuit judge in Court Four from February, who has to decide in about four seconds on the morning of 15 October whether the Crown's witness is an accomplice no portrait yet
- B Bernadette Okafor Next door at number 12, nineteen years at that address, a prosecution witness because she saw the van on the junction camera no portrait yet
- C Callum Kanter The deceased woman's son, in the public gallery of Court Four every morning of the trial, living at number 9 with a mortgage taken out in June no portrait yet
- A Ade Fashoyin Police digital evidence analyst, six years in the service, with eleven seconds of a white Ford Transit on a junction camera on the night of the killing no portrait yet