Adrift

Discussions of mens rea and actus reus, of the boundary between sanity and insanity, of the irrefutability of new DNA evidence, of the inherent weaknesses of any jury-based system. Drew couldn’t remember if it was the police or a social worker who talked to him after the fire, perhaps both, but he told them clearly it was all his fault and they told him it was not, and he must not think that way. But they’re so out of their minds they don’t have a clue. His grades recovered when he finally felt comfortable in Dennis’s bungalow, although that was not a smooth process, especially in the early days.