Chapter 320

A month later, the police referred Scarlett’s case to the prosecutor’s office. With that, the prosecutor’s office was put in charge of examining and prosecuting the suspect.

Layla put in a great deal of effort and used many connections. Finally, a businessman whose surname was Dixon came forward and acted as an intermediary for her. He helped Layla contact a lawyer with the surname Dunn, and this lawyer had just come back from overseas a year ago.

Although David Dunn was not as well-known as the other lawyers Layla had contacted, nor did he have a perfect record of winning cases since returning to the country, he still managed to secure the best outcome for his clients in the cases he had taken up.

The evidence for Scarlett’s case had already formed a closed loop, so it was hard for David to clear Christopher’s name without new key evidence.

The trial commenced at the end of the year.

David asked the court to take into account that this was Christopher’s first offense and the fact that he took remedial measures, called an ambulance, and called the police on his own initiative after the murder. In addition, there was no trace of violence at the scene. Except for the wound that killed Scarlett, there were no other signs of trauma on her body. Therefore, David claimed that Scarlett had died due to Christopher’s negligence and that he should be given a lighter

sentence.

However, the prosecutor argued that Christopher did not call the emergency services immediately, so there was suspicion that he intentionally caused the death of the victim. It was voluntary manslaughter, so Christopher should be sentenced according to the said crime. Coupled with the fact that Christopher had a tendency to violence in the past, the prosecutor proposed that he should be severely sentenced.

The prosecutor and defense debated back and forth several times. Finally, the court found Christopher guilty of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced him to four years.

By the time the case ended, it was already the end of the spring season of the following year.

After Yuliana and Christopher divorced, she settled all her affairs in Juxshire and went to Jeahron with Rowan.

On the day of the announcement of the trial verdict, Yuliana and Rowan were basking in the sun in their yard.

Rowan had just turned one. Perhaps it was due to his premature birth, compared to other one-year-old children, Rowan’s ability to speak developed much later.

Not only that, he learned to walk much slower than babies of the same age.

Other children could walk and utter some words when they were one year old.

He could only climb on the ground and could barely walk

Many babies could say some simple and common words in about ten months, while Rowan could only babble, and he could only do so when he was

time, he would use his fingers or make gestures to

so she deliberately pretended not to understand him. Whenever this happened, Rowan would either act cute to get his way or

in every time. This was the main reason why Rowan didn’t learn

Day, Yuliana went to Yrinas alone.

born and raised in Yrinas. Even Damian was also born and raised in Yrinas.

every year on All Souls’ Day. Damian also hired people to clean and maintain the house where Yuliana’s grandparents used to live all year round. When they went back to pay respects to the deceased, they would stay in that house for one or two nights.

for her to return because she had just given birth to Rowan. This year, although Yuliana

was not familiar with Yrinas. In previous years, it was always Damian who brought them here. They usually went to her grandparents’ house first. Then, they would prepare the things

earliest flight to visit her grandparents’ graves

where they used to

an acquaintance as

“Ms. Livingstone.”

up and saw Wesley standing a few steps away with a simple backpack in his hand. Obviously, he had just gotten off the plane too. Yuliana was stunned and took two steps

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come to Yrinas?”

to take care of something.

my hometown. I came here to

small bag with no other luggage in her hand. Evidently, she didn’t intend to stay in Yrinas for a

I contacted them before I came over. My cousin will come to pick me up at the airport,” said Yuliana, refusing Wesley’s

uncle, and he was over ten years than her. He ran a small business in Yrinas. Since Damian had taken care of him

Yuliana would be back on All Souls’ Day, he took the initiative to offer to pick

this time, and it would be inconvenient with

exited

Wesley contacted arrived

Wesley asked, “When are you

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