What Happened Then

Young Raymond Rudfordsculptor is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle who had adopted and raised him after Raymonds parents died when he was a young boy The prosecution allows his motive was fear of being disinherited if he married his fiancé the fair Alicia Atherton against his uncles wishes and the prosecution lays a mountain of evidence against Raymond including his razor dragged from an artificial lake on the estate as the murder weapon Raymonds bloody fingerprints and footprints found at the scene of bedroom crime and his bloody shoes found in his cupboard and bloody monogrammedhandkerchief found under his uncles death bed Raymonds only defense is that he could not have committed the crime as he goes into a paroxysm of dread at the mere sight of blood a phobia he has had ever since childhood when his dog was run over by a lorry and the dogs blood was splattered into his face