Those People Next Door
Chapter 16
Willa lost respect for Tom when they didn’t have enough money to go to wedding in Italy and he would apologise to her dad. Falling out of love. Day as witness.
Tom in witness box, credible, honest, no signs of agitation, admitted to painting window. Denies everything else.
Tom still in box cross examined, video and recording of call to ambulance ‘I didn’t mean it’ wanted to say something nice to him if he died. Tom ‘it wasn’t me’ ‘then who was it?’, ‘I don’t know’.
Salma and Bil leaving court, Bil angry and pushes reporter, short with Salma in car and doesn’t go in to see Zain as he has to go to work in 15 mins. Salma asks him if he thinks Tom was telling the truth about saying the kind words. Jamie is in with Zain when Salma comes.
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