Eastenders - Current Episode Discussion - VIII

[moonstorm]

Of course, moonstorm. There is one other initiation ceremony though - I bet you can guess what that is!

And it's not even that time of year!!

[lizann]

I have lots of dinners and like to wear silk - can I be a barrister???

i can't afford silk nothing with cotton is there

[Kim]

Yes, I wondered about Marcus as well. When we first knew him he was a solicitor and not a barrister. But, apparently, when he returned last year. Sharon found him through a firm of lawyers. He must have studied hard, had lots of dinners and taken silk.....

This is soapland, so I'd say his qualifications were probably faked. Studying is a dirty word in EastEnders it seems. With all the money he had out of Phil back in 2004, he had more than enough to buy fakes/pay someone to sit exams in his name.

[sarah c]

Yes, you're completely wrong, as that's "exactly" what a solicitor/lawyer is meant to do in a courtroom. Trust me on this, as this is years of watching courtroom dramas like Perry Mason talking here.

no Marcus is a solicitor, it is a Barrister that stands up in Court and questions witnesses?

[maidmarian]

no Marcus is a solicitor, it is a Barrister that stands up in Court and questions witnesses?

Also Solicitor Advocates can lead defence in
murder trials at higher courts in Uk now.

There seem to be quite a number who
are "employed" at well known firms
and have done so in murder trials
and retrials- in reports on Internet
incuding some trials that have had TV
programmes made about them.

In the case of Marcus -I would say based
on what Parkerman can remember from
Sharon finding him last year and references
in Wiki- he is now a barrister or we are
meant to believe so.

[maidmarian]

dupl

[tammyy2j]

Marcus is doing a great job whether barrister or solicitor, love him tearing into the witnesses, he is making this long now farce saga of Lucy's murder enjoyable for me, now let him free Max as no one will tell on Bobby not even Max's own daughter to save him

[xx_Dan_xx]

I've been thinking about the night Lucy died and I am puzzled the police didn't even consider Lucy made it home.

If you think about it, if Max planned to kill Lucy, do the police really believe he was so sloppy up to the moment he killed her by being seen by loads of people, getting blood on his clothes but apparently the murder and moving of the body is was done ingeniously. There is too much of a contrast, and I am surprised the police were too easily swayed because if it was Max, he was making a right mess up to the murder but was a criminal genius afterwards.

After everything that happened to Lucy that night: the drugs, being mugged, hit by whatever that drunk guy was called - surely anyone would just want to go home and start the day fresh. That is exactly what she did but the police didn't even consider it. The body was moved to the common which tells us the location of the murder was at a place where it would reveal who the murderer is. So if you consider that and the fact Lucy would just want to go home - why didn't the police consider if she did make it home. By the point, I don't think Lucy would be in the mood to go into someone else's house.

So, if you consider if she did make it home then the list of suspects is down to the Beales.

Ian: Don't believe he had a vehicle to move her body, unlikely he'd move her body to the common and let it remain their the entire night. He did say she was his favorite child.
Peter: Does have a motive, doesn't have a vehicle and he would of likely told someone and he was on drugs, hardly going to commit a crime ingeniously
Cindy: Would need help moving body, even if she told Ian or Jane, they would of called the police
Bobby: Would need help moving body, well, obviously Jane has a vehicle and she's his mom.

Furthermore, Jane couldn't really of seen Lauren from Masood's house on that video especially if you consider that she just happened to stare out of the window at that exact moment, a moment that could of been important in a murder investigation.

I know that is mostly speculation but it is realistic and makes Lucy's final intentions sense. Anyone would want to go home after that night. I am surprised the police missed this.

[parkerman]

Your mistake is in assuming that the soap police behave like a normal police force when, in fact, they are the modern day equivalents to the Keystone Cops!

[tammyy2j]

Is Marsden off the case now?