Innocent

Five years ago 39 year old Teacher Sally Wright was convicted of murder. And although it was never proven, she was also accused of having a sexual relationship with one of her sixteen year old students: gifted and talented Matty Taylor. Overnight her life imploded, she lost her freedom, her job as a teacher and inevitably her marriage collapsed.

Anna Stamp becomes the focus of the investigation: why she perjured herself at Sally's trial is the big question. Increasingly frustrated by Anna's frigidity her boyfriend Mark makes a clumsy attempt to force their relationship beyond the purely platonic but he's shocked when he accidentally discovers the real depth of Anna's obsession with murdered Matty.

Following Karen's threatening confrontation Sally realises that staying with Alf & Jenny, especially in the light of her friend's advanced pregnancy is a danger to their safety and she moves out to a small B&B.

Karen continues in custody and appears increasingly guilty. Forensics have found fibres matching her to Matty's jacket and she is forced to admit to confronting the boy moments before he was found dead. Matty's ruthless taunting and bullying had caused Bethan's attempted suicide and Braithwaite senses a powerful motive for a mother to murder.