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  1. CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR LEIGH RUSSELL
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‘If you didn’t kidnap Jessica’s baby, how do you account for your being discovered trying to escape from York with her?’

‘I’m not saying I didn’t have her, only that I never stole her.’

‘I suppose you’re going to tell us next that Jessica gave you the baby as a Christmas present?’ Geraldine gave Ella’s lawyer a patient smile which he did not return. ‘Take as long as you like, Ella. Neither of us is going anywhere until you’ve told me the truth. Jessica never gave you her baby, did she?’

‘Yes she did. That’s what I’m telling you, if you’d only listen. That’s exactly what happened. Jessica gave me her baby to look after, because she wanted to do whatever she could to protect Daisy from her father. Jason was a vicious man, just like Pete was. That’s how come I understood her. I understood everything. Jessica showed me the bruises where he used to wallop her.’ She rolled her eyes. ‘I know what that feels like, I can tell you. When I warned her what might happen to Daisy if she kept her baby anywhere near that man, Jessica begged me to take Daisy away from their house. She said it was like sitting on a ticking bomb, waiting in fear for Jason to injure Daisy. She paid me to take the baby and look after her, and hide her from him. I never stole that baby. There was no need.’

‘Jessica alleges you did.’

‘That’s because I refused to give her back.’

‘It comes to the same thing,’ Geraldine said. ‘You kept her baby against her wishes. That’s stealing.’

‘I had to do it after Jessica told me what she’d done. She came to see me, all smiles, and said it was safe to take Daisy back home with her because she’d dealt with Jason. When I asked her how she could be so sure he wouldn’t come back, she told me she’d killed him.’

‘How did she do that?’ Ian asked.

‘She told me he was leaning over in the garage, and she crept up behind him and whacked him on the head with a hammer. He never got up again, so after a while she wrapped him in a blanket and lugged him into the car at night, and heaved him over a fence out by some allotments she’d driven past, somewhere she thought no one would see.’

‘Jessica told you that?’ Ian asked.