Judith Samper-Alberos

Like thinking about where I bought it exactly, from who I bought it, but without trying to give too many details, I didn't want it to point to anybody in concrete because I'm a good person, you know?

So my lawyer came, I tell him all my story, and they bring us to an interrogatory room.

with another police officer, with a police officer, and she start recording and make me all kind of questions.

I start answering, but none of my answers seems to please her.

And she start playing with the fact that my English, that English is not my mother tongue.

So everything I was saying, she was changing the meaning of everything.

And after like 45 minutes, like going back and forth, back and forth, she just asked me if I want to translate her.

And then my lawyer, again, like in the movies, look at her and say, can I talk to my client, please?

So she stopped the recording, leaves the room.

My lawyer turned to me and said, listen,

This is how the things work in England.

Like, the police here has 90% of solved cases.

And that's because you need to say what they want to hear.

So when she come back, just say to her that you are a student, you don't have much money, you knew it was fake, you know it's wrong what you did, you regret, and you're never going to do it again.

At that point, I was so convinced of my story and my innocence that I wasn't...

I wasn't like, I didn't want it to do that.

I was like, why have to say that?

But you know, I thought, you know, I was like the whole night there.

I was like five, six hours with them.

And I was thinking, okay, maybe he's the lawyer.