The Mother

Today, Marcia is heading to the Old Bailey. She'
s going there to do something no mother should ever have to do: to attend the trial of the boy accused of her son'
s murder.
She'
s not meant to be that woman; Ryan, her son, wasn'
t that kind of boy. But Tyson Manley is that kind of a boy and, as his trial unfolds, it becomes clear that it'
s his girlfriend Sweetie who has the answers Marcia so badly needs and who can - perhaps - offer Marcia some kind of hope for the future. But Sweetie is as scared of Tyson as Ryan should have been and, as Marcia'
s learned the hard way, nothing'
s certain. Not any more.
.