The Sweet Second Life of Darrell Kincaid by Catherine Robertson

Author:Catherine Robertson [Catherine Robertson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781869795832
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand
Published: 2011-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

Three possible reasons why Big Man was found guilty when he was really innocent:

The jury hated him. I could just picture Big Man on the stand. Not only would he look as if he’d be better known as ‘Crusher’ or ‘Knuckles McGee’, he’d exude hostility and loathing for everyone in the courtroom, including, I imagined, his own defence lawyer. He’d say as little as possible – quite probably nothing at all. The judge would get so impatient that he or she would start fantasising about bringing back hanging. The jury would rationalise that even if he hadn’t committed this murder, it was only a matter of time. Big Man wouldn’t have stood a chance.

He was protecting someone. Don’t know who. Don’t know why. The man who was murdered had apparently sexually assaulted Big Man’s wife. I found it hard to accept that Big Man had once had a wife, that he’d once had someone to love him. Where was she now? Did she dump him because he was found guilty? Did they have any children? Where were they now? How old would they be? Were they the ones Big Man needed to protect? Or did his wife do it?

He felt as if he were guilty. If he felt he deserved punishment now, then perhaps he’d always felt that way? Big Man had been twenty-nine when he was arrested. He’d been sentenced to life, but his defence lawyer had campaigned from that day onwards to have his appeal heard. It took twelve years, and I don’t know how much of that might have been due to Big Man’s reluctance to fight for his innocence. I don’t know what the evidence was that got him off; all the article I found on Google said was that it proved Michael Hogan was elsewhere when the crime was committed …

I suppose, having looked up some of the famous appeals that took decades, twelve years wasn’t that long. But to have such a large chunk of his life taken from him …

Big Man was acquitted and released nine years ago. He was now fifty. And I wasn’t sure he was any better off out of jail than in.

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