Chapter 297: Arrest them, arrest them! Lock them up, lock them up! What a delight!
The trial was adjourned for supplementary evidence.
The people most affected were-
The person in charge of the case back then and the other personnel involved.
Geng Hao was the person who had been in charge of handling the case.
So when the court announced the adjournment and required the prosecution to supplement its evidence,
Geng Hao found it a real headache.
But there was nothing else he could do.
The main reason the case had not moved forward back then was that Wu Ye had put in a word with him.
At the time... considering how well Wu Ye's career was going,
And that he was an old friend who knew plenty of people and might be helpful to his own career,
And furthermore,
That, in his view, this matter would not have much of an impact on him,
He had agreed under all those circumstances.
But who could have imagined things would turn out like this four years later?
The proper procedures had not been followed in this case back then.
There was also this-
It was not that they had done nothing to advance the case or detain anyone back then.
Rather, they had been thinking about how to get Zhang Yan to withdraw the case.
In his view, this case was simply a matter of Wu Hao, a child, making a terrible mistake on impulse.
As long as Zhang Yan changed her statement, Wu Hao could be released without a conviction.
So he had actually been waiting for Zhang Yan to change her statement all along.
He had also told Wu Ye to try talking Zhang Yan's family around, offering some money or more compensation in other forms.
To get Zhang