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It was that woman
he had been seeing so often.
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When questioned by the police, you told
them that the prisoner returned at 9.25.
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Yes. Because Leonard
asked me to say that.
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But you've changed your story now. Why?
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I cannot go on lying to save him.
1:12:18
I said to the police what he wanted
because I'm grateful to him.
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He married me
and brought me to this country.
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What he has asked me to do I have
because I was grateful.
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It was not because
he was your husband and you loved him?
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I never loved him.
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It was gratitude, then,
that prompted you to give him an alibi
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- in your statement to the police?
- That is it. Exactly.
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- But now you think it was wrong to do so.
- Because it is murder.
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That woman, she was a harmless old fool,
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and he makes of me
an accomplice to the murder.
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I cannot come into court and swear that
he was with me at the time it was done.
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I cannot do it! I cannot do it!
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Then this is the truth?
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That Leonard Vole returned
that night at ten minutes past ten,
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he had blood on the sleeves of his coat,
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and that he said to you
"I have killed her"?
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That is the truth.
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That is the truth, before God?
1:13:13
That is the truth.
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Thank you.
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Mrs Vole, or Mrs Helm,
which do you prefer to be called?
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- It does not matter.
- Does it not?
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In this country we are inclined to take
a rather more serious view of marriage.
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However, it would appear that when
you first met the prisoner in Hamburg
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- you lied to him about your marital status.
- I wanted to get out of Germany, so...
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You lied, did you not?
Just yes or no, please.
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- Yes.
- Thank you.
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And in arranging the marriage,
you lied to the authorities?
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I, um, did not tell the truth
to the authorities.
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- You lied to them?
- Yes.
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And in the ceremony, when you swore
to love, honour and cherish your husband,
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- that too was a lie?
- Yes.