Why you should always, always get a solicitor

Geoff was only ever interviewed once by the cops and that was the morning after he was arrested. Overnight in the cell at Charing Cross Police Station he stewed on the fact that the man who called him about the dodgy brakes had duped him into allowing the cocaine into the yard. Panicked, and naively having declined the offer of a solicitor, he decided he wouldn’t tell the police about the phone calls.

He panicked and thought that because the calls were the only things that connected him with the drugs. If he didn’t mention them they would let him go. He knew he had nothing to do with it, but he was scared that if he told the police about the phone calls they would never believe he was innocent.Any solicitor would have advised him against such a tactic, but he didn’t have one, so he made a mistake.But it was a devastating mistake, because Mr Barwell told the police that Geoff had phoned him about the foreign lorry being in the yard with brake problems. So, the police understandably wanted to know, how he knew to tell Mr Barwell this if he wasn’t in on it? Having convinced himself he couldn’t tell them about the calls, he made up a story – that he had spoken to a bloke in a white van who pulled into the yard as he was leaving. The van driver had told him  about the lorry and that he was a brake fitter. That’s how he knew.

But the cops had it all on CCTV. You could see Geoff’s car driving out and the van driving in. The two drivers never spoke. He’s lying. That’s enough. Charge him.

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