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The morning was nothing unusual,
as the investigation found;
then suddenly everything changed...
Sophie's ex-boyfriend came around.
A knife stowed in his laptop bag
for two hundred wounds and slices.
A pause to lock the bedroom door;
then punishment for her vices.

Her body cold for eighteen months;
her family’s lives now shattered;
they must relive the nightmare of
the day Sophie’s blood was spattered.
The jury heard such heinous facts;
the judge instructed dispassion;
while Clayton sat and calmly watched
the circus-like courtroom action.

“Clayton didn’t mean to do it!
He didn’t really want her DEAD!
She attacked him with these scissors
and so he stabbed her in the head.
She was crazy and controlled him,
and abused him time after time”.
The Defence said provocation
was the catalyst for the crime.

How does a pretty girl provoke
an older man to want to kill?
Is there the possibility
he did this of his own free will?
He didn't plead insanity
and instead claimed he was victim!
"Ladies and gents of the jury...
Are you going to believe him?"

Poor Sophie! How I wish you could
have seen the evil at your door.
I hope it puts your soul at rest
to know there’s justice in the law.
Your country knows your story now
and let it be a warning told:
that leopards never change their spots
and deserve LIFE without parole.