Chapter 173: Chapter 173
Jason could not believe what he was hearing. He had thought that he would have to wait for about a year or so before Nancy would regain her memory' but in trying to make him look bad, his detractors had made short his wait for her to regain her memory.
The judge excused her.
'Is there a way we could get Dr. Pork Farmer to court?'
As luck would have it, he was in court already. His conscience would not allow h rest coupled with his anxiety concerning her daughter. He had heard one of the lawyers say something about protection and he wanted the same offered him and his family.
Dr. Farmer therefore stood up.
Walked to the witness box and said. 'I do not know what to do but if you want my real testimony, I have my conditions '.
Cobberson and Richmond who were trying to catch his eye and give him threatening looks to stop him from saying anything that could implicate them failed be ause he intentionally did not look their way. He did not want anything to distract him.
'What are your conditions?' Hoberman asked. secretly ecstatic that things had taken a change for the better and the case was looking up for his client.
'I would want it signed that I and my family would be safe'.
'But why do you think you could be in danger?'
'Mu daughter had already been abducted to make me go against my ethics and give a false testimony because I was threatened with her life. There are parents here. What would you do if you were in my shoes?"
'Go ahead with your conditions'.
'I want a pardon for lying in court and I want my license to practice not to be taken from me'.
' Before we consider your conditions, could you tell us the people responsible for abducting your daughter?'
The doctor would have hesitated but he knew that very moment counted and he pointed at Maze and Rodney and the court broke into disarray.
'My daughter must be brought back to me safe and sound, else these criminals will know the power of a loving father'.
Hoberman', Campbell and the judge met in his chambers and they asked the judge to help then out with it.
While they were consulting in the judge's chambers, outside, Cobberson was disappointed. Maze and Rodney were fuming and Mrs. Richmond's wife had a rigid profile with a grim face.
Cobberson went close to Farmer. 'You have guts. If they don't agree to your conditions and I doubt that they will because that is not the jurisdiction of the court nit that of the CIA or FBI. Then you will realise the kind of terrible mistake you have made'.
Farmer was scared and prayed silently that it should work out in his favour. It was his wife who had given him this idea. Maybe he could have gone to any of the intelligence agencies and lodged the complaint.
He was still contemplating this and hoping that he had not made a mistake when they came out of consultation with the judge.
'This is not for us to grant you, Dr. Farmer. You could have come out plainly the first time but you chose to go against the court. In fact you should be convicted for this and your baned from practicing your profession', Hoberman' said and the judge was nodding his head in agreement.
Cobberson and his crew were happy that this was not going further and Farmer was biting his lips in panic knowing that he had lost everything but a disturbance again caused heads to turn.
It was the famous FBI agent.
Agent Tim Garner.
Cobberson did not know what had brought him to court. He did not want to give in to the panic that he was there for Farmer. Who had invited him then?
'Greetings your honour. I have heard the conditions presented by Dr. Farmer and if it is going to help this case, we are willing to grant him all he asked and it has all been signed here in this document.
Farmer could not believe what he had just heard.
And Mr. Maze will have to tell us where they are holding the doctor's daughter captive if he does not want other sentences added to the one he might be asked to serve.
Dr. Farmer have his testimony.
He had been at home having a quiet dinner with his wife and daughter when these masked men had invaded his house and abducted his daughter.
He had been held at gun point with his wife and prevented from making any moves.
After they had gone with his daughter, 'If you want to see your daughter alive again, you will do as we say. You must not involve the police or any uniform men. Nobody must know about this but us, else say goodbye to your daughter', they told me. 'Those holding her captive ate just a phone call away and will immediately terminate her life if we tell them that there was trouble'.
'Hearing this, I decided to do as they had asked but confess layer when my daughter was released but they refused to release my daughter though I begged and pleaded. They said they would only do that after the case had ended and they had won the case'.
'I could not bear what I had done to that poor girl who had not regained her memory and I was forced to lie that she had'.
The jury gave their unanimous verdict after Cobberson, red faced surmised his case. He felt like going into the ground. He had never defended people who would not listen to advice such as these ones and hoped he never met any like them ever again before they ruined his career.
This was the first case he had ever lost. He did not need a fortune teller to know that he had lost the case to Hoberman.
The judge found them guilty of abducting a pregnant woman, attempted rape, attempted murder on two counts and each of them were given twenty five years imprisonment.
Phoebe lost it. She could not believe the luck Nancy had. All she had tried to do to her had always failed and now she knew she did not have any chance with Jason anymore and she had already lost Romeo.
If she had known she would just have gone ahead with Romeo and the both of them would have been happy together but her greed and obsession would not allow her settle with him. Now she did not have either of the men she wanted in her life.