Why don’t you start from the beginning.’ The policeman suggested. He was slouched in his chair at a black square table. He lifted the top half of a sheet of paper that was on the table, so that he could read it from his slouched position ‘Paul’. He punctuated the senescence with the man’s name before letting the sheet of paper fall back onto the table. A woman who was sat at the table opposite the policeman raised her hands as though she were about to say something but before she could Paul nodded and raised his own hands. The woman folded her hands in her lap and watched. There was a moment of silence while the man began to articulate something with his hands, the handcuffs jingled profusely. ‘He said that he can lip read, but this would be a lot easier if he didn’t have the handcuffs on’ the woman stated.
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