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More importantly, the heroin in Ben’s system was at a level that would have rendered him unconscious for 6–8 hours. Forensic expert testimony suggests the murder likely occurred while Ben was in a deep nod , making it physically impossible for him to have committed the act.
But there is no happy ending. That night, Ben sits alone in his childhood bedroom. He stares at his hands. A final, silent memory surfaces—a flash of Mel’s face, the knife going in, her gasp. He remembers. Not in anger. Not in psychosis. In a moment of pure panic when she screamed for help, and he kept pushing the knife . criminal justice season 1
The police pick him up within 48 hours. DI Munday presents a damning picture: Ben’s prints on the murder weapon (a kitchen knife), his DNA mixed with Mel’s blood, a neighbor who heard a man’s angry voice that night, and Mel’s diary entries that suggest she feared a younger lover.
But Ben doesn’t want to believe he’s a killer. He remembers Mel kissing him, then suddenly turning cold. He remembers her saying, “You’re just a boy.” He remembers pushing her… but the stabbing? A blank. Juliet Miller, a chain-smoking, sharp-tongued barrister who has seen every kind of guilty client, begins to doubt the prosecution’s case. She realizes that DI Munday suppressed evidence: Mel had a history of violent arguments with an ex-boyfriend, and her phone records show a call to that ex the night she died, after Ben passed out. More importantly, the heroin in Ben’s system was
“We find the defendant… not guilty.”
Ben breaks down. His mother screams in relief. Juliet shows no emotion. Ben is released. He walks out of the courthouse into the rain. No one waits for him but his father, who says nothing and drives him home. That night, Ben sits alone in his childhood bedroom
“I don’t know if I killed her. I remember being angry. I remember holding the knife. But I don’t remember stabbing her. If I did it, I’m sorry. But I don’t believe I’m a murderer.”
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