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Tuesday 13 November 2018

Sally Dynevor interview: Sally v Duncan in court



How has Sally been coping in prison in the run up to her trial?

She’s had her real ups and downs, she got beaten up, she hates it in there! To not be respected anymore, to have been the mayor and then end up in prison, the whole thing is a nightmare, but the thing that’s keeping her going is that she’s knows she is innocent so she believes she will  get out. She believes in the British justice system, she’s a law abiding and honest citizen and I think she thinks that once this goes to trial and they hear her side of the story, she can tell them the truth about what really happened and it’ll all be fine! 

Do you think Sally’s ambitious nature and the fact that she was the Mayor leads her to believe she can change the prison system? 

Sally isn’t one to sit back in prison, in the weeks leading up to the trial she’s been rallying the prisoners, she wants to fight for prisoners rights! She wants to start a skills swap scheme, Jodie teachers her yoga and she teaches Jodie how to sew and as women we all help one another to make the best of a really bad situation!

At this point prison is all very new to her and she looks around her and thinks that it’s awful and not what she expected so she wants to try and make it a better place for women with yoga and meditation! The whole idea is lovely but quite naive!

Sally gets a friend in prison when Abi arrives, how does Abi’s arrival make her feel?

On the street Abi and Sally were never friendly, but it is great to have a friendly face in there. Abi is brilliant for Sally because she’s been in prison before, she knows how it all works and she helps Sally by talking to her about what she’s been through and she reassures her that Tim loves her, and Sally does the same to her by reassuring her about Seb. Sally would usually look down her nose at Abi, due to the drugs especially so she really wouldn’t be sympathetic, but in prison those barriers that Sally might have had, have been knocked over and some of her prejudices have been lost. Life isn’t what she thought it really was, Abi is in fact a really lovely person who has had a bad time! 

Whilst in prison, Sally doesn’t know that Gina has been developing feelings for Tim. How do you think she would feel if she knew that this was going on?

She would be shocked, but not shocked that she found Tim attractive as she found Kevin attractive previously, but the fact that she could do that to Sally when she is in such a desperate situation, that is what would shock her. Fiz’s realisation about Gina’s feelings causes her to tell Geoff, who warns Tim to watch himself; this spurs Gina to panic and then try to throw Tim off the sent by starting dating, where she meets up with Duncan. So this could go one way or the other! 

If Sally knew Gina was meeting up with Duncan would she assume this is something that could only be helpful or would she be worried?

She would feel a little bit of both with Gina’s past track record! She may think that Gina could get to the bottom of everything but you just don’t know what you are going to get with her! However whenever Gina comes to visit Sally she loves her and she tells her that she’s trying to get her out, so if Sally knew she was seeing Duncan, she might hope she’s doing all she can to help but she may be a little worried as to how she’s going about it because Duncan is a very clever man!

Would Sally be worried that Gina would believe Duncan’s lies?

She would be really worried if she knew. Duncan’s so clever that everyone begins to believe his lies! Also for Gina, with her feelings for Tim, making him believe the worst about Sally works in her favour, which would be devastating for Sally if she knew what was happening!

During the week leading up to the trial, where Tim visits her but can’t bring himself to tell her the truth about the character witness.

Sally simply thinks that because she is innocent, they will be able to find a character witness because she is a good person.  Is she knew they couldnt she would be really confused as to why nobody on the street would be a character witness, surely Gail or somebody would be it? Perhaps they are too afraid because they are all beginning to believe that she could’ve done what is being suggested of her! But Sally would never begin imagie that anybody would believe that of her, because it is just so not Sally, she wouldn’t do that! 

It’s the first day of the trail, how does Sally feel when there is no sign of Gina and Tim?

At first Sally is really worried, and there’s a moment where Sally is thinking where are they? Why aren’t they here? When Tim and Gina finally walk in it’s a relief for Sally, but Tim looks dishevelled and this upsets her. For Sally it’s important that Tim looks pristine because the gallery is looking at her and her family.

During the trial Duncan takes the stand. What’s going through Sally’s head during this?

It’s a terrible moment for Sally because everything he says is a lie. He makes a passionate speech about how he hadn’t had an affair with another woman before Sally. He brings up Sally’s past and her kiss with Kevin the night before she married Tim. It’s absolutely devastating for Sally.

Do you think at this point Sally starts to believe that she could go to prison for this?

It’s a moment for Sally where she realises how bad the situation is looking. Sally is very worried that she might go to prison, but I think she’s also more worried that Tim might be thinking she has had an affair. When Sally speaks in the dock and she talks about how much she loves Tim. She realises that there is something more important at stake...her marriage to Tim! It upsets her that the man she loves doesn’t believe her.

When it all seems bad for Sally, she suddenly has a moment that makes her believe that it could all work out. What is this?

There is a date that Duncan has mentioned and previously Sally couldn’t remember what she was doing on that date. So, when she suddenly remembers that is was her birthday, she recalls being so busy looking after Jack because he was ill. It was a terrible time for them, Sally was looking after Kevin and she was also trying to be there for Tim. She was also trying to help Sophie because she was feeling guilt over the situation. I think Sally felt that she was stuck in the middle of it all. No wonder she couldn’t remember at first.

With this new-found knowledge of what she was doing on this date. Knowing it’s going to take a while to retrieve the CCTV, Sophie suggests to Sally to delay the trial. What does Sally do?

Sophie suggests to Sally that if she could delay the trail by a few days they could get the CCTV footage they need. Sally then gets off the phone and goes back to her cell and tells Abi that she needs to delay the trial. Sally says she can’t do it, so Abi comes up with a plan.

Do you think Sally has come to a point where she will go to extreme lengths to clear her name?

I think it’s when Sophie tells her that she’s done everything by the book and she’s been honest, yet it’s not getting her anywhere. Only taking matters into her own hands is going to help, otherwise she could face being locked up for the rest of her life. I think that’s the moment it dawns on her how important it is to delay the trial.

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