New Tricks2003

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Gerry Standing:
Why did you kill him, Mehtin?

Mehtin Topal:
I didn't.

Gerry Standing:
You're lying.

Mehtin Topal:
Look, I admit I was a bad man ten years ago.

Gerry Standing:
You were a heroin smuggling sociopath who killed Sean Docherty.

Mehtin Topal:
I didn't even know the guy. He was a poet, apparently; yeah, come on, do I look like I need the rhyme?

Det.Supt.Sandra Pullman:
His body was found in your yard.

Mehtin Topal:
You found a poet on my patch, and used it as an excuse to sniff around and bring me down on a whole lot of other stuff. But you never charged me for the murder, and I'm walking out of here in nine months; so go suck on that.

Det.Supt.Sandra Pullman:
Sean was bludgeoned to death and then set alight in your yard between ten and ten thirty p.m. on March the twenty-ninth 2002.

Mehtin Topal:
If you say so.

Det.Supt.Sandra Pullman:
And yet you weren't even in London according to your chauffeur, Emray.

Mehtin Topal:
I was driving up to Newcastle.

Det.Supt.Sandra Pullman:
He stuck to that story for ten years.

Mehtin Topal:
He's a good lad. I must remember to buy him a drink when I get out.

Det.Supt.Sandra Pullman:
You'll have a job; he's gone into witness protection. However, before he went, he broke your alibi.

Gerry Standing:
So go suck on *that*.