Raymond Carroll's Trial

Raymond Carroll was charged with the murder of Deirdre Kennedy. He denied ever being granted special leave or having any reason to leave Wipswitch early. The prosecution's case relied on three major factors: that he had given a false alibi, that he had a propensity for biting small children and that his bite marks were found on Deirdry's body. But in a pretrial hearing, the defence successfully argued that Carroll's prior offence couldn't be presented. For that offence, he'd been charged with 17 counts, including breaking and entering, stealing, and willful destruction of Air Force property. However, as the defence pointed out, there were no records to confirm that he wasn