HER BABY'S SECRET

The Plan

HER BABY'S 🤰 SECRET 🤱

🍓 SERIE THIRTY FIVE 🍓

Theme: The plan

Arike's POV

"Arike, I have requested for an audience with the suspect so you have to brace yourself up for the next few days till we can solve this case." Bamidele said.

"Thank you, Bamidele."

"You are going in with a recording device but the police must not know about it." He said.

"Sounds like a plan..."

"At this point we can't trust anybody..even the police, I am afraid that they might be working to favour Shalewa's father. So the plan is to go into the interrogation room and make sure Dayo tells you the whole truth. That is the only way to get him out of this mess." He explained.

"Okay that won't be a problem." I said.

"Arike, if perhaps Dayo did all these things to Shalewa then we have no option than to plead guilty in the court so they can reduce his sentence and later file in an appeal." Bamidele's expression conveyed the message of his words that I should prepare for what was to come.

"Let us hope for the best, Bamidele." I said.

"Okay." Then we walked into the station.

"Mr Bamidele-" a tall man dressed in a fine black suit approached us.

"Barrister Prosper," Bamidele exchanged pleasantries with him.

"Arike meet Barrister Prosper, Dayo's lawyer." Bamidele introduced us.

I shook hands with the lawyer. "Thank God you are here, they have refused to let me see my client." Barrister Prosper complained in anger.

"I have a court note that will allow us see him." Bamidele said.

"They even apprehended him without an arrest warrant." Barrister Prosper added.

Bamidele went ahead to request for a presence with the Commissioner of Police and a sergeant left the counter to help us after he screened the court note.

We discussed as we waited for the sergeant to get back to us on our request.

Barrister Porpser moved closer to us. "Shalewa's dad is the force behind all these, I have tried to let us settle out of court but he has refused saying that my client must pay for hurting his child." Barrister Prosper said in a whisper.

Looking at him, one wouldn't doubt his ability as a lawyer - he was good just like Bamidele had painted him but I needed to to be sure if he trusted his client.

"What do you think about your client?" I asked cutting him off his intended sentence.

A muscle in his jaw tightened. "Do you also think that Dayo committed the crimes charged against him?" I asked again.

"Why did you ask?" He sounded like he was offended by my question.

"I just want to know..." I said and he purses his lips.

"My client is innocent." He answered.

But that doesn't answer my question, in court cases all clients are always innocent and it is the duties of a lawyer to defend his or her client even when they are guilty.

"So why try to settle out of court when you should have worked on finding evidences that would prove his innocence?" I requested.

Barrister Prosper jaw went slack before he cleared his throat. "Are you trying to doubt my job?"