Tell Tale: Stories

Albert stared at the prisoner standing in the dock, well aware he hadn’t committed the murder.

Albert had struck the fatal blow moments after Yvonne admitted she was seeing another man. He slipped out of her flat and into a telephone box on the other side of the road. When his rival appeared, he dialed 999.

Twenty minutes later two detectives dragged the innocent man out of her apartment, threw him into the back of a police car and sirens blazing, sped off.

“Do you find the defendant guilty or not guilty of murder?”

The foreman rose.

“Guilty,” said Albert.