27 I’ll prove you wrong! 2 (2/2)

”I plead not guilty,” Renae replied. Kaiden's reply was the same.

”Trial shall now begin. The defendants' attorney, Ms Lee, and the plaintiff's attorney, Mr Ng, please step forward and present all prior prepared evidence. First is the plaintiff's turn to prove the defendant guilty.”

Mr Ng stepped forward and opened up his suit case. He pulled out his computer and said, ”All our evidence are video evidence.” He brought the evidence forward and played the videos which they had recorded of ”Renae” and ”Kaiden” helping out with the ”policemen”. Lana wore a smug look on her face as she crossed her arms and watched the video play.

The video ended.

”This is the proof we have against the defendant. As you can clearly see in the video, Ms San and Mr Ru are seen helping the policemen look for the criminals in their investigation. Untrained, they could've gotten injured. We're very lucky they didn't,” Mr Ng said, playing the good samaritan card by making the jury and judge think that they did all this to teach the policemen a lesson for putting Renae and Kaiden's lives at risk.

”Alright, it is now the defendant's time to prove not guilty.”

Ms Lee stepped forward with her evidence in hand.

”This is a recording of Ms Chou's call with her partner, whoever that might be, discussing their plans to create fake evidence in which she used today. If you look at the video carefully, you will realise the police uniforms the ”policemen” are wearing are not the real uniforms. Not only that, the ”Renae” and ”Kaiden” shown in the video look like the real ones, but if looked at closely, is obvious that they are different people. Also, during the entire investigation, we had the criminals' phones with us and the investigation was completely unknown to the public. It was only announced after it ended. The criminals had no way of communicating with Ms Chou at all during the entire investigation. If Ms Chou has not seen them help us so much with her eyes, I suggest she doesn't accuse them.”

Hearing this, the judge's expression changed. ”Play the recording,” he said, his brows furrowed. Ms Lee nodded and pressed play. Lana and an unknown person's voice resounded throughout the courthouse.

After which, Renae, Kaiden and the policemen were deemed not guilty! They left the courthouse and split ways. ”Want me to drive you back?” Kaiden asked. ”Erm... sure,” Renae said. They got into the car and they were off!

”What Ms Lee said... wouldn't we be lying though? We really did help the police a lot in this investigation,” Kaiden said. Renae replied, ”We didn't lie, we never said that we didn't help out. The fact that Lana's evidence was fake just made the jury and the judge think that we didn't help out. It's a psychological thing.” ”Oh... I see,” he said.

After a few minutes of silence, Renae's phone sounded. She checked it and saw that Cathy had sent her a message. Cathy had asked is she wanted to go for coffee and talk for a bit. Since Renae was free after that, she agreed. ”Sorry, instead of fetching me home, can you fetch me to Starship Cafe?” She asked, her tone was still distant. ”Mmhmm,” Kaiden said.

He turned his car around and headed for Starship Cafe.