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Addendum to DI James Clemo’s report for Dr Francesca Manelli.
Transcript recorded by Dr Francesca Manelli.
DI James Clemo and Dr Francesca Manelli in attendance.
Notes to indicate observations on DI Clemo’s state of mind or behaviour, where his remarks alone do
not convey this, are in italics.
FM: What I’d like to start with today is a discussion of your relationship with DC Zhang.
JC: There’s not much to say.
FM: You were seeing each other when the Benedict Finch case started?
JC: Yes.
FM: How long had your relationship been going on?
JC: About four months.
FM: And were things going well?
JC: They were, yes. I thought they were.
FM: But you kept the relationship secret from work?
JC: I didn’t want gossip.
FM: Were you embarrassed about the relationship?
JC: No! God no. Anyone would have been proud to go out with Emma.
FM: Why’s that?
JC: She’s very clever, and very gorgeous. Funny, too when you got to know her.
FM: She sounds lovely.
JC: She was even better than that though; I’m not describing her very well. She was different from
other girls I’d been out with.
FM: How was she different?
JC: She was just… she wasn’t dull like them. It’s like she’d lived a different kind of life, and she
wasn’t afraid to know stuff, and she was always wanting to learn new things, to be a better version of
herself. When she was a kid she was an athletics star, and she got top grades, and she’d kept that
sense of purpose about her. She talked about life as if it was a given that it was interesting or exciting,
not about mortgages or package holidays or where she was going out on Friday night. I don’t want to
make her sound manic, obsessed with achievement or anything, because she wasn’t like that, because
she was calm with it all. It’s just that she was always striving, you know, to make life better than it
was.
FM: So she had high expectations?