Crown Court

12/10/1972

10/18/1972

Wealthy Property developer Emmanuel Lieberman is trying to evict his former fiancé Delia Savage from an exclusive penthouse apartment overlooking London's Green Park. He claims that he merely allowed her to live in the apartment until they were married, but Ms Savage insists that Mr Lieberman gave her the property as an engagement gift. Mr Lieberman says the engagement was called off when he discovered his own son naked with Ms Savage when he returned home unexpectedly from a trip to San Francisco. Did he really give the apartment as a gift? Or is he simply trying to recover the prestigious property in order to sell it on at huge profit?

10/19/1972

Ms Savage's evidence appears to suggest that her relationship with Mark Lieberman was platonic and that his presence in her flat was merely coincidental.

10/20/1972

On the final day the live-in maid Florence Ferguson is called to give evidence, as is Lieberman's son Mark.

Helen Lord, a maths teacher at Fulchester's John Fordhurst secondary school, is accused of wounding a police officer with a chisel. The court will hear that Miss Lord went to Calderley police station to speak to Detective Bretherton about the contents of a letter which he had sent to the headmistress of the school, advising her that Miss Lord was not suitable to work with children. When she was denied access to Detective Bretherton, she 'went berserk' and attacked the desk sergeant. The decision of the headmistress to employ Miss Lord without checking references is also being brought into question.

1/11/1972

Following an armed raid by four masked men on a Fulchester bank in which £30,000 was stolen, local villain Harry Bryant was identified as one of the robbers. In court, he decides to sack his defence team at the start of the trial and defend himself. He bases his defence on unreliable identification and on the fact that due to his criminal background, the police are determined to 'fit him up' for a crime that he did not commit.

2/11/1972

3/11/1972

12/13/1972

12/14/1972

One of the accused, Trevor Luckhurst, takes the witness stand, but his behaviour doesn't help his case.

12/15/1972

In his summing up, the defence barrister James Elliot QC accuses the night watchman of extreme anti-left wing bias. Could this save the young couple?

7/18/1973

7/27/1973

8/1/1973

8/8/1973

8/22/1973

8/29/1973

9/11/1974

9/18/1974

9/25/1974

10/16/1974

11/6/1974

11/13/1974

11/20/1974

11/27/1974

Doubt is thrown on Emma Lakeland's account about being held captive by Grigori Petrov, as she could have escaped. Inspector Clement believed Lakeland was in danger. Mr. Harvesty says Lakeland's role was a bluff to allow Petrov to escape.

12/4/1974

1/8/1975

1/15/1975

1/29/1975

2/5/1975

2/12/1975

2/19/1975

2/26/1975

3/5/1975

3/12/1975

3/19/1975

3/25/1975

4/2/1975

4/9/1975

4/16/1975

4/30/1975

5/7/1975

5/14/1975

5/21/1975