[Comprehensive] Runaway Witch

Due to the strong pressure from Mrs. Sterling, all the evidence required by Scotland Yard was collected and quickly gathered in Lestrade's hands.

"Inspector, does the forensic report need to be processed? After all, we are now investigating murder." Anderson asked Lestrade with the original forensic report.

"No, the report should be objective. Just do what you want, don't do unnecessary things." Lestrade frowned at the collected information, and answered Anderson without raising his head.

"But Deputy Director Smith said..." Anderson hesitated a bit, obviously, he had received a hint from the Deputy Director.

"I'm in charge of this case. Do as I say. All our actions in this case must be within the rules. Don't cross the line. Do you hear me?" Lestrade finally raised his head. His eyes were determined, and his frown was very serious.

"Okay, sir." Anderson immediately stood up and agreed.

Obviously, Inspector Lestrade still has a lot of prestige in front of his subordinates in official business.

"Let me tell everyone, don't use everything you have now for the illusory future!" Lestrade stood up and took out the original autopsy report from Anderson's hand.

"Okay, sir." Anderson walked away wisely, and went to scare his colleagues.

Inspector Lestrade opened the forensic report that had been issued for a long time. The cause of death was clear cocaine overdose, and the cause of death was written as unknown.

This report can be said to be unfavorable to his actions, because such a vigorous collection of evidence is obviously aimed at murdering criminals.

Moreover, he had the audacity to directly assign the names of the suspects to the two powerful descendants.

However, Mrs. Sterling's power and strong attitude made up for the lack of evidence, and made his investigations in the past two days go smoothly.

At least on the bright side, everyone cooperated with him and this investigation like never before.

The secretaries, lawyers, family members who accompanied me, those sarcastic remarks and warnings all disappeared.

The monitoring of those residences and the crime scene were all completely sent to the information department.

It stands to reason that Inspector Lestrade can concentrate on investigating the case now, without such a stern warning to his subordinates.

but……

Everything has a but, Inspector Lestrade can stand in this position, apart from Sherlock's help, of course he has his own advantages.

This is not about his courage to ask Sherlock for help, nor is it his skill to help Sherlock clean up the mess every time.

It's about his keen sense of smell and good interpersonal relationships.

Is this case interesting?

From what Lestrade knew of Sherlock, the case was interesting because of its complexity.

And the daunting political power part of this case will never be the part of Sherlock who hinders it. On the contrary, it will make Sherlock, who is committed to finding work for his brother, happier.

But now, when Sherlock clearly had no case on his hands, he had been avoiding people, staying out of a case that would have interested him in the first place.

This is one of the suspicious points, and he actually reminded himself in this situation.

You must know that this brat Sherlock cheated his brother and cheated him, but now he actually reminded him, which means that he needs to be vigilant.

In fact, Lestrade didn't think about these things at first. It is true that he is smart and meticulous, but he is not such a smart and meticulous person.

But as the matter got worse, Mr. Sterling, Mr. Jin, Mrs. Mrs. Sterling's mother family, and everyone who was usually high above all appeared overtly or covertly. He was not a fool.

On the surface, the case was calm as usual, but underneath it was a dark tide.

Later, the pornographic news about Mr. Jin also appeared, and Lestrade began to think more.

The matter this time was not that simple, and at this time, someone came to test him, and someone came to remind him.

Why did Sherlock avoid it? Even his brother has been keeping a low profile recently. Something big is about to happen.

Faced with this situation, Lestrade thought a lot. He was sure that he was just an insignificant member, but he had to be cautious. He began to carefully sort out the case information so that no one could catch him investigating the case.

Although the inspector's thoughts were not all right, at least his speculation about the behavior of the two Holmes brothers was wrong, but his actions were quite right.

This is the first. At the same time, the more you know about this case, all the evidence points to Anne King and Charles Sterling, either explicitly or implicitly.

So that's why Sherlock keeps him away from the case.

Regardless of whether it is any one person's hand, this matter is an endless situation.

Facing such an unsolvable situation, Lestrade could only passively stall for time, rationalize all his actions, and let all the people under him behave in peace.

As for the progress, Mrs. Sterling could never be satisfied anyway, not to mention that he was really helpless.

This case cannot prove murder. How can it be proved that the murder weapon is cocaine, which was injected by the deceased.

According to Benjamin Sterling's examination, this famous elite has a long history of drug abuse. This is not the first time he has injected cocaine, but unfortunately it will be the last.

How do you prove that a drug addict didn't inject the cocaine himself.

Only the fingerprints of the deceased were found on the syringe at the scene, and there was no other trauma on the deceased.

Unless there is video proof, even if there are eyewitnesses, I believe the suspect's lawyer has a way to defend.What's more, there are no eyewitnesses at all.

So what is the evidence pointing to Anne King and Charles Sterling?

Both lied about their whereabouts, and both had been to the nightclub that night.But such a lie cannot prove that the two are guilty, and the court will not admit it.

Although this nightclub is not under Charles Sterling's name, the nominal owner is Charles Sterling's confidant.But how to prove such actual and nominal ownership.

Annie King hated her fiancé who was duplicity, which was almost the consensus of knowing these two people.And someone heard the quarrel between the two that night.Too bad it was at a much earlier time of death.

The surveillance images that can be used as decisive evidence have been searched, and they have only seen such evidence. There is no surveillance at the door and inside of the box where the deceased died.

So here comes the problem, this case will definitely go to court when Mrs Sterling's wife is absolutely impossible to let go, and the court's judgment must be based on insufficient evidence.

So Lestrade has been doing futile work?

In fact, he already understood the meaning of his existence. In this matter, he should be just a pawn.

And what a chess piece needs to do is to protect itself and remove itself from it, at least to ensure that at the end of the chess game, he will not be sacrificed as cannon fodder.

After spending three days figuring out his situation and the direction of his next course of action, Lestrade's brows were never untied.

If that was the case, why would Sherlock not show up? Although this matter was complicated, it was not enough to scare Sherlock away.

Inspector Lestrade, who was still puzzled, checked all the documents of this case with unprecedented seriousness.

If the case is as Lestrade thinks, then it may not even go to court and it will be suppressed. Although Mrs. Sterling is strong, she is likely to be suppressed by the two parties jointly under the circumstances of insufficient evidence.

At this time, the witness that Lestrade thought would not exist appeared.

It was a woman brought by Mrs. Stirling MP.

The underground girlfriend of the deceased Benjamin Sterling, the one who accompanied the deceased most of the night.

"Tell the inspector what happened that night. Tell the inspector everything you know!" This was the first time Mrs. Sterling came to the door after the last time the chief was driven away.

"Wait a minute, Mrs. Sterling, can you let this lady and I go to the interrogation room? We need a very formal questioning, which is very important!" Lestrade stopped Mrs. Sterling from directly asking the rhythm of the conversation.

"Yes... Inspector, you can lead the way." Mrs. Sterling gave Lestrade a deep look, and finally agreed.

Lestrade placed the witness, Miss Sophie, in the interrogation room, and then invited Mrs. Sterling MP to the reception area, and asked Anderson to drink coffee with the lady.

"Miss Sophie, this is a conversation with legal effect. You need to be responsible for every word you say, do you understand?" Lestrade and one of his men came in, turned on the surveillance, and asked them to record Su Fei's words. Miss Fei's testimony.

"I understand!" The submissive woman replied nervously.

"Okay, let's talk about what you saw when Benjamin Sterling died." Lestrade asked the most important question directly.

"I...at that time...I wasn't by his side, I...he was alone in the private room." Unexpectedly, Miss Sophie, who was asked this question now, was a little incoherent.

"Then, I want to ask where were you and what were you doing when Benjamin Sterling died?" Lestrade sighed knowing that this was not a direct witness.

"At that time... I was waiting for Benjamin to come out at the entrance of the private room corridor. Yes... I just stood there drinking." While answering, she kept nodding to encourage her words, and Sophie's panic made her voice stop trembling.

"Then what about Benjamin Sterling? He's alone in the box?" Lestrade frowned and looked at this witness in a bad state. This was a difficult type of witness. He panicked, and the credibility of the testimony could not be guaranteed.

"Yes, yes, he was in the box, and he was alone in the end." Sophie opened her eyes wide and looked directly at Lestrade for the first time.

"Finally? What about the front? Are you with him?" Lestrade finally saw Sophie's appearance clearly. She was indeed a great beauty. beautiful face.

"No, he didn't let me go with him. Miss Jin accompanied him. She said she wanted to talk to Benjamin. She was alone, so I had to wait alone." Miss Sophie.

"Then when did Miss Jin leave?" Lestrade pursed his lips.

"I was a little drunk at the time, and I didn't have a good sense of time, but when she left, she had a bad face and ran away without paying attention to me." Miss Sophie said seriously.

Lestrade, who was observing carefully, also looked at it seriously, and she spoke the truth, "And then?"

"Then? Then I knocked on the door of the box, but Benjamin didn't respond, I thought... I thought he was just high, so he ignored me..." Miss Sophie finally cried, her eye circles were always red , Now the tears were falling, and the big eyes were even more shining with the tears. The police officer who recorded couldn't help but handed out his handkerchief.

"And then?" Lestrade felt that this testimony seemed to be very useful, pointing out Annie King's suspicion, but there were still ambiguities.

"I... I just left and went to find someone else to drink. Generally speaking, Benjamin will come to me after he's high. He's always been like this... But, but he hasn't shown up... I don't know, I really don't know..." Sophie burst into tears.

"Why didn't you go directly to the box to look for him?" Lestrade was not shaken by the beauty's tears, and still asked in detail.

"He, you don't know Benjamin. He hates me to disturb him casually, especially when he's high. Sometimes he doesn't like me asking too much. If he comes to me, then I'm his girlfriend. If he But come here, he won't let me go find him. So...so I thought he had found his partner that night, so I left him alone." Sophie wiped her tears while honestly confessing her low status.

"Can you tell me exactly when Miss Jin and Benjamin Sterling entered the box? And when Miss Jin left?" Lestrade continued to interrogate mercilessly under the condemning eyes of his subordinates.

"Well, I'm afraid I can't, because I don't have a watch, and there won't be a clock on the wall there. We've been drinking for a long time, but I really don't know what time it is." The confused expression couldn't be more real.

"So the last time you saw Benjamin Sterling was when he and his fiancé were going to the box to talk, and it was late at night, wasn't it?" the inspector concluded Sophie's testimony.

"That's right, that's it." Miss Sophie finally wiped away her tears.

"So while you were waiting for Miss King to come out, did anyone else enter or leave the box, or did anyone enter or leave the box afterwards?" Lestrade asked carefully.

"I didn't pay attention to this. I was standing at the entrance of the corridor. It was dark inside and I couldn't see clearly, but I can be sure that during the time I was waiting, no one else entered or exited the corridor except Miss Jin." Sophie was holding a drink at the time. Pacing there, I was already slightly drunk, so I was in a daze.

"What time do you think Miss Jin left?" Lestrade felt that Miss Anne Jin might also need a formal statement.

After all, she had already lied twice, from staying at home to not seeing the victim in a nightclub.

"Probably, probably... I can't remember clearly, you know, there is no reference at all, I really don't know the time." Sophie frowned and shook her head, as if she really couldn't remember.

"Okay, do you have anything else to say?" Lestrade concluded.

"No, I told you everything I know, everything." Sophie became nervous again.

This conversation has come to an end for now.

Coming out of the interrogation room, Lestrade asked his subordinates to take Miss Sophie to confirm the testimony and sign it.

Lestrade faced Mrs. Stirling MP again. In just over a week, she lost weight and aged a lot.

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